Buying a Rolls Royce?

 If one is rich, buying a Rolls Royce would be on the card. It is a dream car, a prestige. Let's say someone from the Red Dot wants to buy a Rolls Royce. And he is a nobody but got a lot of money. The Brits do not sell Rolls Royce to anyone. Only to customers they feel happy to sell to.

So, this Red Dot nobody customer calls on Rolls Royce to make an order and Rolls Royce would make their assessment, to sell or not to sell, is the customer a friend or a foe. For a nobody customer, even if Rolls Royce wants to sell, it is going to place a lot of conditions. It would not just be a simple business deal between a buyer and a seller.

Very likely Rolls Royce would dictate who can use, drive the car, and if the buyer eventually wants to sell it, who can the buyer sell to. Other than its reputation, Rolls Royce would want to protect its trade secrets, and the Rolls Royce must not end up in enemy's hand.

Being a nobody from Red Dot, the price would not be cheap. Rolls Royce would want to mark it up knowing that this Red Dot buyer is an eager buyer and would pay whatever Rolls Royce asked for. After all it is easy money, and this Red Dot buyer has a lot of money to throw around, a nouveau riche.

When money is not a problem, very likely OPM, the deal should be closed quite easily. But no. Rolls Royce has other conditions. Yes, they will sell. But the Rolls Royce car must be parked in the UK, used in the UK, serviced by UK agents. The Red Dot customer must fly to UK to use the car. Since he is so rich, flying to UK for holidays and get to drive around in the Rolls Royce may not be a bad idea. Better still, buy a big house with plenty of parking spaces and can buy a few Rolls Royce to park there and have the bragging right to tell everyone that he has several Rolls Royce to play with. This arrangement means having to cough out more money to buy property and hire servants etc etc just for the privilege of owning a toy kept in a far away land.

What would you do if you are this Red Dot customer? Would you buy a Rolls Royce that you can see and touch once a while, but cannot bring it home to use it whenever you need it? In a way, Rolls Royce is behaving like a colonial master and treating you as a British subject, to be subjected to its Rules Based Order, to be decided by the colonial master, and your Rolls Royce would always be in UK, de facto owned by the Brits and can be seized by the Brits whenever they are not happy with you, a kind of blackmail or ransom. 

What do you think?