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Paint it BLACK

s Torsten Müller-Ötvös, CEO of Rolls-Royce Motor Cars tells it, in 2013 he and his cohorts were standing in front of the SLS Hotel in Beverly Hills where they’d been hosting an event, when an all-black, “murdered out” Phantom Coupe pulled up. They’d never seen anything like it. “I’m always quite interested in talking to our clients worldwide, and I approached the gentleman who was driving, and we talked about the car,” he recalls. “And it was stunning, I must say. I was quite blown away. I asked him, ‘Why did you do that? Why did you murder out this beautiful Phantom coupe, completely

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