Utorak, 11. decembar 2007. - Objavljeno 15:06 GMT

Najstariji Rols Rojs na svetu

The hammer price on this unique piece of motoring history more than doubled the previous record paid for a veteran car. But for that price, the new owner not only gets a motoring icon, but one that still works.

A motoring expert at the Bonhams auction house, where the car was sold, said it was still very driveable, tootling along almost silently - as you'd expect a Rolls Royce to do, with its ten horsepower motor pushing it to a top speed of around sixty-four kilometres per hour.

It was only the fourth vehicle to be made at the Rolls-Royce factory in Manchester in the north of England, and it was developed originally as a doctor's car, with three of its previous six owners being doctors. It's understood the car, which has in recent years completed the celebrated London to Brighton run, will remain in Britain.

The hammer price
Cena postignuta na aukciji

unique
unikat, jedinstven

doubled
udvostručena, povećana za 100%

a veteran car
po britanskoj klasifikaciji, "veteran" je automobil proizveden pre 1916. godine

icon
ikona, simbol, nešto što ukazuje na specifičan životni stil, čuveni proizvod automobilske industrije

auction house
aukcijska kuća, mesto gde se održavaju aukcije i licitacije

tootling
spora, "nežna" vožnja

horsepower
konjska snaga, mera za snagu motora

previous six owners
šest prethodnih vlasnika

celebrated
poznad iz određenog razloga, ili zbog neke specifične osobine