China will become Rolls-Royce’s biggest market, surpassing the U.S.

As early as 2011, China will become Rolls-Royce Motor Cars Ltd.'s biggest market, surpassing the United States. BMW AG's luxury nameplate sold about a third of its cars in the U.S. in 2009. In 2011, Rolls-Royce plans to sell 800 cars in China as it seeks to increase sales eightfold in two years in the world's largest auto market.

In the first 10 months of 2010, Rolls-Royce delivered nearly 500 cars in China, compared with about 100 for the whole of 2009, Rolls-Royce's Asia Pacific regional director, Paul Harris, said.
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Steve - 12/1/2010 10:14:57 PM

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Man, do we ever need a "Report this Post" button to quickly get the Admin's attention. Evil spamming spirits, begone!

kuvakas1 - 12/1/2010 11:34:21 PM

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Check out the headlines at the bottom of the linked article. Things are changing very quickly in the automotive world. I understand the current trend of 4 door supercars (Aston, Lamborghini, Porsche, etc) were designed to appeal to the Chinese market where it is a sign of status to be driven around.

edeus123 - 12/2/2010 2:34:21 AM

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The first shall be the last and the last shall be the first. Its ironic how we Americans always pat china on the head like it is a little child. While all the time they are down in the basement cooking things up. Our slogan is, "yeah, we use to be an industrial country, but we have now evolve from that. We are better than that. We are about the economy as a whole. We are market and technology oriented." The things we fell to realize is that the industry period is an underline method of securing both the middle and working class.

94geo - 12/2/2010 4:59:45 PM

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I see lots of RR in Manhattan. They are great looking cars with tons of presence.