ROLLS-ROYCE, sales in 2011 rise by a smidgen

homer90

... And in other news
We have turned the corner, erm.... again, if sales at RR are anything to go by !
Clicky..

Rolls-Royce — the luxury car brand that makes all other luxury carmakers feel young, vibrant and West Egg-ish — saw a seemingly astounding 31% increase in sales in 2011. Rolls sold 3,538 Spirit of Ecstasy-ornamented barges of bountiful bank accounts — making it the best year of sales in the brand's 107-year-old history. Wait, does this mean those poors whining about the 1% are right?

Perish the thought! A look at the details indicates those whining art history graduates couldn't be more wrong.
Breaking out those sales across the globe, Rolls saw 47% higher sales in the Asia Pacific region, and Middle East sales were up 23%. North America — home to the United States, the brand's most important market — saw sales blossom by 17%.

But wait, you say, that seems to be even more evidence of a upper crust of American society that's ever-more-capable of buying big ticket items while the middle class continues to disappear to be replaced by an ever-increasing class of food stamp-carrying shiftless unemployed college grads.

Ridiculous!

What these overeducated with liberal arts degree riff-raff don't understand is the big increase in sales isn't coming from the $380,000-plus top-of-the-line Phantom. No, the car that saw the most growth was the recently-launched Ghost — with a mere pittance of a starting price of $250,000. Hell, some owners are even toying with the idea of buying an electric Rolls-Royce.

Everyone's cinching their belts these days, you know.

Eric Cartman

pfft poverty spec ghosts......

Stinicker

The Albanian Mafia were smitten by James May's sales pitch last year.

coylemj

Bentley had a cracking year as well.....

• Global sales up 37% with 7,003 deliveries to customers
• December sales (1,059 cars) - best single month since recession and second highest ever
• America still Bentley’s number one market with sales up by over a third to 2,021
• China confirms number two status with sales virtually doubling to a record 1,839
• All major markets increased with Europe up by over a half due mainly to high demand in Germany, up by nearly 90%

Good to see that communism is alive and well in China, obviously they subscribe to the notion that nothing is too good for the working man!

ofcork

BMW also had a record year so even with global recession talk there is plenty of money out there.