I test-drove a half-million-dollar luxury vehicle around the high-class neighborhood where I never really belonged. Let’s just hope I don’t crash.
I test-drove the ultimate luxury vehicle around the high-class neighborhood where I never really belonged. Let’s hope I don’t crash.The Rolls-Royce parked on the showroom floor looked like a sleek purple spacecraft. The first electric car from the OG luxury brand, thestarts around $480,000, but the model on display rang in at $580,000, easily half a million more than any car I’ve owned.
To grow up near money without actual money is a strange dislocation: I felt poor, even as I enjoyed the grand privileges of an American girlhood. New bikes, an Atari console, a television in the living room, though it was black and white for so long that my brother’s friend once helpfully smacked the side, thinking the set was on the blink. It was a fine day in the Hepola household when my father caved and bought a four-door Honda Accord my senior year of high school, so new it had paper plates.
The Spectre was mine for an hour, which honestly felt like too much rope for a half-million-dollar car. “Do you want me to go with you?” Tori asked, and I kind of did, but I also wanted to take selfies, and the part of me that feared crashing a luxury automobile was trumped by the part of me that hoped to peacock around town like I owned it.“You’ll love it,” Tori assured me, as I idled in the parking lot. “You’ll feel like a rock star and a cocooned baby at once.
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