Jaguar Land Rover and Rolls-Royce car sales rise - BBC News

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If you continue without changing your settings, we'll assume that you are happy to receive all cookies on the BBC website. However, you can change your cookie settings at any time. These are external links and will open in a new window. Jaguar Land-Rover and Rolls-Royce Motor Cars have both reported a rise in annual sales for Chief executive Dr Ralf Speth said last year that the company wanted to double production from , to one million cars a year, but that it would depend on government support.

Rolls-Royce - which is owned by BMW - has seen record sales in the US, Japan, the UK and Germany. The only market where conditions were difficult was the Middle East, "where consumer demand for all luxury goods was dampened by economic and political uncertainty". Its chief executive Torsten Mueller-Otvos told the BBC that its sales growth reflected a worldwide improvement in the luxury goods market generally.

Rolls also confirmed plans to extend its Technology and Logistics Centre in Bognor Regis - close to its manufacturing hub in Goodwood, West Sussex - in by nearly 10, square metres "to meet growing demand and in readiness for future models".

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