There was a bit of culture shock for the Rolls Royce customers who I shared a table with when they learned that a few of the watches on display were nearly double the cost of a Rolls Royce.
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But what if you do want the Rolls-Royce experience but you can't afford a real Rolls-Royce?
Despite their failure to find flagrant subsidy in Rolls-Royce's accounts, Americans in the industry wonder how Rolls-Royce can price so keenly.
The rights to use the Rolls-Royce name have been owned by BMW since 1998 when Vickers sold off Rolls-Royce Motors, which also made Bentley cars.
Sir Henry Royce, the co-founder of Rolls-Royce, is to have a blue plaque put up in his honour in Derby.
Why are you not going with the Mercedes or Rolls Royce of the industry?
Now if you want an impressive piece of automotive jewelry, buy a Rolls Royce.
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For example, costly Rolls Royce automobiles and Rolex watches do not outperform lower-priced Toyotas or Seikos.
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Rolls Royce and Kawasaki Heavy Industries are among the giants now exploring the development of tidal power.
British Steel, British Leyland, the British National Oil Corporation, Associated British Ports, Cable and Wireless, Rolls Royce.
Final salary schemes, once upon a day, were looked upon as the Rolls Royce of Pension schemes.
Within a few moments, a passenger jet powered by four Rolls Royce engines had become a glider.
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During the arrests, several cars were seized, including a Mercedes, Jaguar, BMW and a Bentley Rolls Royce.
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Presumably some time after all the lawyers have made enough for another Rolls Royce or two each.
At a recent polo tournament, sponsored by Cartier, they arrived in their Rolls Royce limousines and Porsche SUVs.
Citing a 2011 issue with corrosion on gearboxes, RBC noted Rolls Royce, the provider, solved it in weeks.
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In the 1964 Bond film Goldfinger, the villain had AU 1 on his 1937 Rolls Royce Phantom III Sedanca de Ville.
He began wearing full-length mink coats and velvet blazers and rolling into ball games in his fancy Rolls Royce.
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The decision follows almost a decade of trying to make Maybach a profitable rival to Rolls Royce and Bentley.
As legend has it, he was walking back from a show in 2011 when a Rolls Royce drove up beside him.
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"It's the Rolls Royce of healthy eating, " says Kate Geagan, a nutritionist in Park City, Utah, and one of our judges.
The reality is that a Rolls Royce is a gas guzzling, outrageously high maintenance automobile, engineered with luxury, not performance in mind.
It began in 1994 to promote flying interests and flight training for employees of Filton-based companies, such as Airbus and Rolls Royce.
Think of the difference between a Rolls Royce and a Toyota Corolla.
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In 2001 Rolls Royce and Motorola, both important employers here, announced redundancies.
"I have no qualms about Rolls Royce doing many things, " he said.
Small cracks have been discovered on the wings, and in 2010 a Rolls Royce engine on a Qantas flight exploded in mid-flight.
Representatives from the City of Bristol College, GKN Aerospace, Rolls Royce, Airbus and the University of the West of England attended the ceremony.
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