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Rolls-Royce Motor Cars, the Goodwood, England-based maker of the world most luxurious automobiles, opened a small showroom today in Paris to showcase its premium motor cars for French buyers.

Over 100 Belgian auto enthusiasts, including the drivers of 30 vintage vehicles and their passengers, arrived at the home of Rolls Royce Motor Cars, Inc. last Monday, thus completing a six-day roadtrip that began six days ago, traveling from Kortrijk through Beaulieu to the Rolls Royce offices in Goodwood.

The ultra-luxury Rolls-Royce brand is talking about bringing to the market an all new hybrid, or soley battery powered vehicle. Although consumers have not been asking for electric vehicles from Rolls-Royce, the brand believes EVs will keep the brand competitive in the market today.

The 1911 Experimental Speed Car known as 1701 will lead 17 historic Rolls-Royce Silver Ghosts on Sunday from the Royal Automobile Club in Pall Mall, to re-enact the 1911 London to Edinburgh Top Gear Trial, which solidified the marque's reputation as a world-class luxury car.

Rolls-Royce Motor Cars is doing on-the-spot hiring of designers, engineers and project-management professionals and expects to double the headcount of its Bespoke staff at Goodwood in West Sussex by the end of 2011. Also wanted by the premium custom carmaker are product marketing and sales professionals.

Rolls-Royce Motor Cars has celebrated the centenary of the Spirit of Ecstasy in Goodwood, West Sussex, by gathering 100 Rolls-Royces from 1911 through 2011 to show them off in a parade.

Rolls-Royce Motor Cars plucked an executive from Maserati to add to its communications team today, naming Ruth Hucklenbroich corporate communications manager for Germany. She reports to Richard Carter, director of global communications.

Sales of Rolls-Royce luxury automobiles are up, everywhere. There were 1,592 Rolls-Royce Motor Cars assembled, sold and shipped from England to buyers worldwide in the first six months of 2011, up 64% compared with year-ago numbers. It's the best start to a model year for Rolls since 2003.

Carlos Bakery of New Jersey and TLC’s “Cake Boss” fame made a special cake to celebrate the opening of a new Rolls-Royce dealership in Chicago.

Rolls-Royce Motor Cars spent the Independence Day weekend showing off a special Phantom Drophead Coupé, a hand-crafted luxury car that delivers a striking blue exterior and an awesome roof-down driving experience.

We reported two months ago the first electric Roll Royce would charge wirelessly. Now it appears, even before the first of those is available, the common electric vehicle may do the same thing thanks to a joint venture announced today by the developer of the wireless vehicle recharging system Evatran, and Yazaki, the leading developer of electric vehicle distribution systems.

After finding a better way to address its pre-owened cars Rolls-Royce forays into the market of used cars calling the program Provenance.

The largest Rolls-Royce showroom, with enough space to park five automobiles, all of them Rolls-Royces has just been opened. And of course, you make it possible every time you fill your tank. The new state-of-the-art facility is located in Abu Dhabi, of the United Arab Emirates.

The CEO of LeaseTrader.com says gas will have to hit $4 a gallon before car buying habits change.

Electric cars are not only for the rich any more than combustion cars were, but there will be electric cars only the rich can afford. Rolls Royce has developed a test vehicle to explore alternatives to combustion engines for the first time in their 107-year history.

A lot of the concept vehicles being presented at the Geneva Motor Show are just steps away from production but common sense indicates the smart forspeed electric vehicle may never get the green light.

On the heels of BMW announcing major electric vehicle plans, Rolls-Royce has announced it will unveil a 102EX, a one-off, fully electric powered Phantom, to debut at the Geneva Motor Show on March 1.

Rolls-Royce, which has been winning design awards for its new Ghost, has hired Giles Taylor away from Jaguar.

Coming off a down year when only 1,002 cars were sold, Rolls-Royce had its best year ever with worldwide sales of 2,711. That’s a 171 percent improvement over 2009 and more than doubles the previous record of 1,212 in 2008.