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It produced luxury cars under the Rolls-Royce and Bentley brands. Vickers acquired the company in 1980 and sold it to Volkswagen in 1998. Bentley Motors is the company's direct successor; however, BMW acquired the rights to the Rolls-Royce trademark for use on automobiles and launched a new Rolls-Royce company shortly afterwards.
Bentley sales continued to increase, and in 2005 8,627 were sold worldwide, 3,654 in the United States. In 2007, the 10,000 cars-per-year threshold was broken for the first time with sales of 10,014. For 2007, a record profit of €155 million was also announced. [41] Bentley reported a sale of about 7,600 units in 2008. [42]
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Volkswagen Automatic Transmission (Dalian) Co., Ltd. 100% owned by VW Group China. Dresden "Gläserne Manufaktur" Transparent Factory [1] 8: Europe, Germany: Dresden, Saxony: Volkswagen ID.3: Bentley Continental Flying Spur VW e-Golf VW Phaeton: 2000: 406: Part of the Volkswagen Sachsen GmbH subsidiary. Majority of production is carried out by ...
Volkswagen purchased Rolls-Royce Motors and Bentley from Vickers on 28 July 1998, [95] however the purchase did not include the license to use the Rolls-Royce trademark on automobiles, which is controlled by Rolls-Royce Holdings plc. [96]
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The Bentley Continental GT is a grand touring car manufactured and marketed by the British company Bentley Motors since 2003. A two-door coupé or convertible, and has four seats, it was the first new Bentley released after the company's acquisition by Volkswagen AG in 1998, and the first Bentley to employ mass production manufacturing techniques.
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