Rolls-Royce Motors

Rolls-Royce Motors in 1973 caused by cleavage of the automotive division of Rolls-Royce Limited, after the company in 1971 due to bankruptcy nationalized was. The rest of the company continued under the old name Rolls-Royce Ltd. She is now known as Rolls-Royce plc .

Since 1998, Volkswagen AG owns the company. However, the rights to the brand name and logo of Rolls-Royce were owned by Rolls-Royce plc, BMW decided to give a license to use the name and logo rather Volkswagen. [1] It was eventually decided that BMW to 2002 parts would provide for the production of the Rolls-Royce, as from January 2003 to begin production itself. At the same time Rolls-Royce Motors (Volkswagen AG) stopped making cars under the name Rolls-Royce to go through only with Bentley . ==History [  edit ] == In 1980 Rolls-Royce Motors was sold to industrial concern Vickers, which is in turn in 1998 decided to sell the weather. Vickers, the company wanted initially to BMWsales, which supplied engines for some time the car brand, but Volkswagen did surprisingly a higher bid. BMW finally offered £ 340 million (€ 497.497 million), while Volkswagen was willing to pay £ 430 million (€ 629.187 million).

Volkswagen was given the rights to the Spirit of Ecstasy -ornament and the characteristic radiator grille, but discovered that the use of Rolls-Royce name and logo are owned by Rolls-Royce plc, the aero engine builder. That company, which recently joint ventures with BMW had sold these rights to BMW. And so, two German engineers were in an impasse . Volkswagen had the mascot and the radiator grille while BMW had the name and logo. BMW bought it an option on Volkswagens' trade marks for £ 40 million (€ 58.53 million). Observers found that a bargain for what may be the most valuable property of Rolls-Royce. Volkswagen commented that they actually just to the accompanying Bentley was doing.

Eventually, both came to an agreement. Until 2002 BMW would continue to supply engines for Rolls-Royce and Bentley. From 1 January 2003, BMW was then allowed myself cars under the name Rolls-Royce to start building and Volkswagen would stop production, to just go through with Bentley. And the Bentley factory in Crewe remained owned by Volkswagen invested more than € 1 billion in both. BMW built for a new Rolls-Royce factory in Goodwood ( West Sussex ). ==Models [  edit ] == Rolls-Royce Camargue from 1982 .These models were built by Rolls-Royce Motors:


 * The acquisition by Volkswagen:
 * Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow I-II and Bentley T I-II
 * Phantom VI
 * Rolls-Royce Corniche I-IV and Bentley Continental
 * Rolls-Royce Camargue
 * Rolls-Royce Silver Spirit / Silver Spur / Silver Dawn I-IV and Bentley Mulsanne
 * After the takeover by Volkswagen:
 * Rolls-Royce Silver Seraph and Bentley Arnage
 * 2000 Rolls-Royce Corniche and Bentley Azure