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...More than 70 per cent of top-end models from automakers such as Bentley, Lamborghini and Rolls-Royce that were purchased in Korea last year were under corporate accounts, according to industry data from...
...One of the most popular Rolls-Royce features is a night sky scene of tiny dimmable fibre optic lights installed in the roof of the car, allowing chauffeur-driven stargazing....
...Autonomous vehicle safety has been in the spotlight since early October, when a robotaxi operated by Cruise, the General Motors driverless car division, collided with a pedestrian and then dragged the person...
...The new CEO, who starts next month, has previously worked at Rolls-Royce Motor Cars, as CFO of Aston Martin before its stock market listing, and as CFO of the Land and Sea division of Rolls-Royce....
...There’s only one Rolls-Royce Rolls-Royce’s Spectre, meanwhile, is a near three-tonne, £330,000 luxury land liner that surges, wafts and wallows with intoxicating grace and pace....
...“If looked after, Shadows go on forever,” adds Ghost Motors owner Charles Baseley, who was an engineer at Rolls-Royce’s London base in the ’60s and ’70s....
...Alongside the Oxford plant, BMW also owns an engine factory in Hams Hall, a metalworks plant in Swindon and the luxury car brand Rolls-Royce....
...Rolls-Royce sold a record number of cars last year, driven by demand in the US — its biggest market....
...But the group, which also owns Mini and Rolls-Royce Motor Cars, said its auto margin in the second quarter of the year had been 9.2 per cent, which was below the 10 per cent that analysts had forecast....
...There was no driver to make eye contact with, so I had no idea if the car would stay still or try to roll backwards. In the end, I decided to steer clear until it had driven away....
...Creditors allege Camshaft’s now 26-year-old manager William Morton went on “an extravagant spending spree” after the $533mn was transferred and that Ferrari, Lamborghini and Rolls-Royce cars were registered...
...Workers at Rolls-Royce’s UK car factory have won a pay deal worth up to 17.6 per cent, their largest-ever, the Unite union said, as the country faces a wave of strikes over the cost of living crisis....
...The Spirit of Ecstasy Anders Warming, design director at Rolls-Royce Motor Cars During the wind-tunnel development of the brand’s first all-electric car, the Spectre (out later this year), the engineering...
...“Our products aren’t seen as a means of transportation — they need to please,” said Torsten Müller-Ötvös, chief executive of Rolls-Royce Motor Cars, which last year sold just over 5,500 vehicles....
...Rolls-Royce has one electric model, the Spectre, which is due to be delivered late this year....
...BAE Systems and Rolls-Royce operate US subsidiaries that already allow them to work on sensitive US defence programmes....
...Motor car crashes have instead become so common that they are no longer news....
...While this helped some UK factories such as VW’s Bentley and BMW’s Rolls-Royce, it may have hurt Toyota, which makes its larger models overseas....
...We buy the argument for small, modular nuclear plants of the kind Rolls-Royce, GE, Hitachi and NuScale are developing. These will doubtless trigger protests....
...No, I haven’t been driven there by my parents (and they certainly don’t have a Rolls-Royce, as Moss’s did), but I find the atmosphere intimidating to start with, as the teenage Moss must have done....
...One example of this is SwytchBike, which turned to Indiegogo to launch its add-on electric motor for bicycles....
...The famous afternoon tea; the “Peninsula green” Rolls-Royce pick-up at Chek Lap Kok; the old-school valet boxes in every room or suite: they are the details that locate guests in a specific hotel culture...
...Tesla delayed its plan to roll out more sophisticated autonomous driving software to a select number of drivers. Apple’s electric car project, dubbed the iCar, is nowhere to be seen....
...“We have fought hard to get the chips we needed for all cars,” he said. Sales were driven by the Rolls-Royce utility vehicle, the Cullinan, as well as its new Ghost model....
...Twenty years after going into foreign ownership, Bentley and Rolls-Royce Motor Cars are both billion-pound exporters with record sales....
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