RR Record Sales In Its 115-Year history
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Well done RR 
Postman Pat van lookalike Cullinan orders into the second part of the year! Who is ordering these?
https://www.forbes.com/sites/nargessbanks/2019/01/...
Postman Pat van lookalike Cullinan orders into the second part of the year! Who is ordering these?
https://www.forbes.com/sites/nargessbanks/2019/01/...
Edited by AMG Merc on Saturday 12th January 17:52
When I first saw this I thought it was a pretty disingenuous press release......
Rolls Royce Motor Cars Limited was only incorporated in 1998 and has no direct connection to the original company, other than a name, which BMW just paid to use.
Then I saw they had chosen the wording very carefully - the "marque's" 115 years......not company!
https://www.press.rolls-roycemotorcars.com/rolls-r...
Rolls Royce Motor Cars Limited was only incorporated in 1998 and has no direct connection to the original company, other than a name, which BMW just paid to use.
Then I saw they had chosen the wording very carefully - the "marque's" 115 years......not company!
https://www.press.rolls-roycemotorcars.com/rolls-r...
I think that you are being a bit harsh given the chequered history of every British car company you care to name. R-R have done a truly brilliant job at the pinnacle of car production. The spirit and ethos of Rolls and Royce were never in safer hands. And what is that? To be the best, without compromise and almost without regard to cost, in the hope that the cognoscenti recognise it and will pay for it. It appears that they do.
Otherwise, who would be producing the finest luxury car in the world? Bentley, though you would no doubt accuse them of really being VW’s? Mercedes-Maybach?
Otherwise, who would be producing the finest luxury car in the world? Bentley, though you would no doubt accuse them of really being VW’s? Mercedes-Maybach?
I’m going to give this a bump, because I think it deserves it.
The older I get, the more I come to think that things exist because they ought to exist, that they actually will themselves into existence. RR is a case in point. There has to be a supreme car, a best car in the world, a paradigm of excellence where things are done not because they are cheaper but because they are right. Sir Henry Royce and Charles Rolls started a company and gave it a name. But to trace the authenticity of the company through the register of shareholders and Companies House is a primary school approach. RR is a concept, it exists because it has to. If you imprisoned all the directors, dynamited the factory and crushed every car you could find, appropriated all the shares, changed the name and sold what was left to McDonalds, somehow it would come back. One day someone would build engineering perfection out of the remains of some post apocalyptic society, and put a battered old RR plate on it, as a reminder to eternity of what civilisation was about.
BMW have done that, at whatever financial risk, and succeeded beyond the wildest imaginings of anyone who saw RR in the 80’s. Of course it is authentic. What it is makes it authentic, not the company structure.
Likewise Jaguar, not imho in a great place just now, and Aston Martin. AM survives in spite of f———s like Andy Palmer, not because of them, and it will come back strongly, because we need it to.
The older I get, the more I come to think that things exist because they ought to exist, that they actually will themselves into existence. RR is a case in point. There has to be a supreme car, a best car in the world, a paradigm of excellence where things are done not because they are cheaper but because they are right. Sir Henry Royce and Charles Rolls started a company and gave it a name. But to trace the authenticity of the company through the register of shareholders and Companies House is a primary school approach. RR is a concept, it exists because it has to. If you imprisoned all the directors, dynamited the factory and crushed every car you could find, appropriated all the shares, changed the name and sold what was left to McDonalds, somehow it would come back. One day someone would build engineering perfection out of the remains of some post apocalyptic society, and put a battered old RR plate on it, as a reminder to eternity of what civilisation was about.
BMW have done that, at whatever financial risk, and succeeded beyond the wildest imaginings of anyone who saw RR in the 80’s. Of course it is authentic. What it is makes it authentic, not the company structure.
Likewise Jaguar, not imho in a great place just now, and Aston Martin. AM survives in spite of f———s like Andy Palmer, not because of them, and it will come back strongly, because we need it to.
cardigankid said:
Likewise Jaguar, not imho in a great place just now, and Aston Martin. AM survives in spite of f———s like Andy Palmer, not because of them, and it will come back strongly, because we need it to.
I hope Aston can survive. I've tried to like the new Vantage, but just can't. It's just awful inside and outside. People say it looks good at certain angles, that's not high praise for AM's bread and butter car. Hard to belive no one has been fired over this. Gassing Station | Bentley & Rolls Royce | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff