First drive review: The conspicuous case of the $477,000 Rolls-Royce Dawn Black Badge

Five years before Rolls-Royce founder Henry Royce made his first car in 1904, an American economist named Thorstein Veblen coined the phrase “conspicuous consumption.” The term for flaunting your wealth through lavish luxury goods was resurrected in popular culture during the nouveau riche explosion in the 1980s, when Rolls-Royce Motor...