In the top-of-the-range market, known as ultra-luxury cruising, there was a 30% surge in summer sales.
Recently, Mercedes-Benz discontinued the Maybach, an ultra-luxury car that it introduced in an effort to compete with Rolls-Royce and Bentley.
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Rolls-Royce was the top ultra-luxury car brand overall, in a 2006 Luxury Institute survey of those wealthy consumers, the most recent such survey.
Without question, the future of ultra-luxury is extremely bright.
Soon he was tackling more ambitious projects: Refurbishing a derelict Victorian street of brick-terraced houses in Kensington, or a Georgian terrace of 25 houses in the same area, always creating ultra-luxury homes.
The flagship of the ultra-luxury Peninsula Hotel Group, this icon has been famed for its white glove service, opulent public spaces, fine dining, and fleet of custom "Peninsula green" Rolls Royces since it opened in 1928.
Some are being discontinued because they flopped in the market, like the Maybach ultra-luxury sedan, the Mercedes-Benz R-class or the Lexus HS250h, a pricey hybrid that fell short in terms of fuel efficiency, luxury and functionality.
"We see a stabilizing trend in the ultra-luxury segment, as high-net-worth buyers pursue the very best properties at opportunistic price points, " says Bill Fandel of Peaks Real Estate Sotheby's International Realty, who handled the sale of the Bootjack Ranch, via an e-mail.
"We had an outstanding year in spite of the challenges we faced, and Rolls-Royce now leads the ultra luxury market by some considerable margin, " said chief executive Torsten Muller-Otvos.
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"There has been a reduction in spending in all segments of consumers, from the ultra-wealthy to the wealthy to the average American, " says Milton Pedraza, CEO of the Luxury Institute, a New York-based market research firm.
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