I hope you were wearing appropriate livery, MCB !

That roll-bar stuff sounds like electronics that you don't want to go wrong ?

Asked if I could do a quick job last week and deliver a car. I’m pretty sure it was the best car I’ve ever driven, and almost certainly the most expensive. Superlatives run out when trying to describe the Rolls-Royce Spectre. Firstly, it’s electric. So existing levels of R-R refinement are turned up a notch or two. The ride quality has to be felt to be believed - the anti-roll bars disengage when travelling in a straight line, so any vertical movement of one wheel can’t influence its axle mate. As soon as the steering wheel is turned, it re-engages and corners in a remarkably spritely manner (stressing that I was driving like Miss Daisy’s driver). I didn’t get chance to play with the infotainment much, but it’s a R-R version of BMW’s system.

The car starts at £330,000, but with options most will be at least £400,000. Looking forward to doing the return trip in it in a couple of weeks.

Doesn't the new owner want to keep it? ;-) If not, rather an expensive hire car or, for someone, trip? Still, you do get to enjoy it on the way back rather than some bland Eurobox hire care or whatever.

I shudder to think what it costs to insure, given it is an EV as well and must require one heck of a lot of batteries to give the car reasonable performance and range capabilities.

I'd rather buy a £50k 'weekday/holiday luxury' car, a sports car for weekends and hire a chauffeur for 5-10 years.