BMW-owned Rolls-Royce Motor Cars sold a record 5152 luxury cars across more than 50 countries in 2019, the highest annual figure ever in the Rolls-Royce’s 116-year history. That marked a 25% increase over the 4,107 vehicles it sold in 2018.

The Americas remained the Rolls-Royce’s largest market in 2019, with about a third of its sales. This is followed by China and Europe. Russia, Singapore, Australia and Japan all reported record sales.



Despite being dismissed as too big and expensive, the Cullinan was Rolls-Royce’s major contribution to the sales growth in 2019. The 3-ton high-riding SUV, which starts at $330,000, typically retails for over $400,000 after the usual add-ons and customizations.

Rolls-Royce also claims their were high demands for Ghost, Dawn and its top of the line model, the Phantom, as well.

Commenting on the results, Rolls-Royce’s CEO, Torsten Muller-Otvos, said:

“This performance is of an altogether different magnitude to any previous year’s sales success. While we celebrate these remarkable results we are conscious of our key promise to our customers, to keep our brand rare and exclusive. We are pleased and proud to have delivered growth of 25% in 2019.”

Rolls-Royce walks a delicate line between growing sales and keeping its brand special. Rolls-Royce’s CEO, while assuring its customers in keeping its model exclusive, said he expects sales to “stabilize” next year.

“Worldwide demand last year for our Cullinan SUV has driven this success and is expected to stabilise in 2020. It is a ringing testament to the quality and integrity of our products, the faith and passion of our customers and, above all, the skill, dedication and determination of our exceptional team at the Home of Rolls-Royce at Goodwood and around the world and our dedicated global dealer network.”

“While we celebrate these remarkable results, we are conscious of our key promise to our customers, to keep our brand rare and exclusive,”

Rolls-Royce biggest challenge last year was keeping up with demand. BMW Group said that interest in the Cullinan has forced Rolls-Royce motors to work day and night to fulfill orders.

Rolls-Royce said it is making investments in its Goodwood plant in England. Part of it includes hiring more workers to assist the existing ones.

“This vehicle, which comes in the shape of an aeroplane, minus the wings, will further demonstrate the strides the Kantanka Automobile Company is making"

“Today, we are witnessing a historic day of realising Turkey’s 60-year dream together.”

“We have been saying for years that Turkey needs to produce its own car, that we deserve better than being assemblers”

“Turkey has become a country which is not only a market for new technologies but also a country which develops, produces and exports them to the world.”

“They managed to hinder the production of Devrim (Turkey’s first homegrown car). But they will not be able to hinder (the production of) this automobile,”

“We do not have to buy a license or permission from anyone. We determine all the technical features by ourselves” 

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“We decided that we would use advanced technology to build the car. However, we needed to do it on the cheap”

A Chinese couple, who accompanied a friend to a dealership on November 24, was forced to pay $10,025 (₦3.6m) after their 3 year old  daughter used rock to scratch pictures into the paintwork of 10 brand-new Audi cars.

The dealership initially sued the father – known as Mr Zhao – for the sum of ¥200,000 ($28,643 / ₦10.4 million), saying the estimated figure could increase after further evaluation of the damage done.

The dealership argued that the 10 scratched Audis, which includes models like A8 and Q3, could not be sold as new cars once they had repainted them.



According to the dealership, they could be sued and be made to compensate three times the purchase price if found guilty of selling a damaged or used vehicle as new.

Since the repainted cars would have to sold as used one, the dealership asked the father to pay ¥200,000 ($28,643 / ₦10.4 million).

But the court, in a statement on December 3, said the father rejected the 200,000 RMB demand. The two sides eventually settled on ¥70,000 ($10,025 / ₦3.6 million).

Lucky dad… Only God knows the hefty bills he would have incurred if the toddler had scratched super expensive cars from brands like Bugatti and Lamborghini.

What Do You Think? 

“I think I ate everything… EVERYTHING… that’s why I gained so much weight.

“I was having too much fun, I was celebrating too much.

“Even out of shape, even the way that I was training back and forth (between Mexico and California) … f******, I did pretty good, dude! I did pretty good!

“But, I wish I had taken it more serious.”

“For the third fight, I’m going to give it all I got! I want those belts back!”

“First of all I bought a car for my mum,”

“That was the first purchase that I made with the money that I got.

“I bought my mum a car because I messed up a lot of her cars when I was young. So I got her a brand new car.”

“My maddest purchase is probably all of the cars that I bought.

“I bought four cars, two types of Mercedes G-Wagons, the brand new Rolls Royce and a Lamborghini truck, an SUV.

“My spending has not taken my competitive edge off.”

“I told him ‘Andy, this is your last car, don’t buy any more,'”

“I said, if anything, buy a Rolls Royce and rent it out, make money. You can make $30,000 a month on it.”

“Like a father, I told him to stay humble – don’t spend the money, invest it in houses,”