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The Goodwood plant is the headquarters, design, manufacturing and assembly centre for Rolls-Royce Motor Cars. Officially opened on 1 January 2003, the plant is situated on a site covering 42 acres (17 ha). The plant has been expanded since. Over 1,700 workers are currently employed at Goodwood.
Spirit of Ecstasy, the bonnet mascot sculpture on Rolls-Royce cars. Rolls-Royce Motor Cars Limited was created as a wholly owned subsidiary of BMW in 1998 after BMW licensed the rights to the Rolls-Royce brand name and logo from Rolls-Royce Holdings plc, [6] and acquired the rights to the Spirit of Ecstasy and Rolls-Royce grille shape trademarks from Volkswagen AG.
However, BMW did buy the Rolls-Royce brand name from Rolls-Royce. They also agreed with the Volkswagen Group a handover plan, which would complete at the end of 2001. In 2000, BMW's new Rolls-Royce Motor Cars division announced that they would build a new manufacturing plant at the historic Goodwood Estate in West Sussex.
The car was designed by the company's specialised coachbuild division at its Goodwood plant, reinterpreting the 1910s Rolls-Royce Ltd Boat Tail car design. [10] It draws aesthetic inspiration from yachts of the 1920s and 1930s.
It is a limited (35 units) version of the Rolls-Royce Phantom Drophead Coupé celebrating Sir Malcolm Campbell breaking the water-speed record with Bluebird K3 hydroplane boat (powered by Rolls-Royce R37 engine), with Maggiore Blue body colour, 21-inch alloy wheels with blue highlights, Bluebird logo redesigned by the Bespoke team at Goodwood ...
The Phantom is assembled by hand at Rolls-Royce's plant in Goodwood, West Sussex, England. [31] Customer deliveries commenced in January 2018. [32] [33] According to a statement from BMW AG, Rolls-Royce and similar institutions, this generation of automobiles with combustion engines will end in 2030, due to the company switching to electric ...
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Goodwood, Leicestershire, England; Goodwood House, West Sussex, England - the estate includes: . Goodwood plant, of Rolls-Royce Motor Cars; Chichester/Goodwood ...