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title: "What Outlandish Spec Would You Make a Car Company Build?"
description: "Money doesn't buy taste, but who says it should?"
date: "2021-06-22"
modified: "2021-06-22"
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  - name: "James Gilboy"
    job_title: "Contributing Writer"
    link: "https://www.thedrive.com/authors/james-gilboy"
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# What Outlandish Spec Would You Make a Car Company Build?

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Eager to cater to the growing class of oligarchs, supercar manufacturers today offer [as much personalization as any client could want](<https://www.thedrive.com/news/32420/2021-bentley-mulliner-bacalar-a-650-hp-coachbuilt-convertible-for-crewes-favorite-clients>). Plenty of plutocrats, though, spend six or seven figures only to come away with unmemorable cars; with Lambos that'd still make them Monaco-anonymous at best. If you're going to spend more than the average American's lifetime earnings on a car, you might as well go buck wild, and get something like [paint made from a celestial object](<https://www.thedrive.com/news/18199/this-aston-martin-valkyrie-will-have-moon-dust-embedded-in-its-paint>). Something tells us we're not alone in thinking this, but that changes today.

What outlandish spec would you make a car company build?

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*2021 Rolls-Royce Boat Tail, *Rolls-Royce**

Personalization is the only reason I'd ever own a supercar in the first place, though not for the sake of impressing others. I'd be far more amused pushing the limits of the, "*yes sir, anything you please"* craftspeople at Rolls-Royce, [90 percent of whose handiwork is already so heavily customized as to basically be a one-off](<https://www.thedrive.com/news/25901/over-90-percent-of-rolls-royce-cars-sold-are-so-customized-theyre-practically-one-offs>).

This I would do by first asking them to upholster my seats in a single, specific, sick-minded source of leather; cane toads, specifically their creepy little amphibian faces. Before you send some nice people my way with a jacket that ties behind my back, do note that cane toads are an invasive species, and are already made into [creepy novelty leather goods](<https://toadshop.com>). If you're going to institutionalize me for that, you'd better make room for a few thousand more people. And if you think that's bad enough, that's only the soft surfaces.

Any hard surface I could have made from [coprolite](<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coprolite>), I would, though obviously encased in resin. The rest, I have to admit, would be made from materials (marginally) less novel to an idiot with money, such as pewter, driftwood, and natural fiber composites. As for that star-speckled roof lining for which Rolls-Royce is so famous, I can already say I know [which constellation I'd have them stitch out](<https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/207/210/b22.jpg>).

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## Author
James is a former staff writer for The Drive. He has changed the conversation around electrification, debunked misinformation online, and become a prominent hunter of what he calls "automotive cryptids."

### Author social links  
[Instagram](<https://instagram.com/jamesgilboy>)