Yet one was a flop, the other an unprecedented success.
And both were the children of strong-willed, autocratic visionaries. Both were criticised as profligate and superfluous. Both were conceived to define the automotive superlatives of the day – to be the grandest, fastest, most expensive playthings of potentates and playboys. The Royales – built during the late Twenties, capable of 120mph and costing, then, four times the price of a Rolls Royce – have much in common with 'my' Veyron.
