LONDON—Rolls-Royce on Monday reported record sales last year despite an average price tag of around $534,000 for its luxury cars and a drop in Chinese demand, with orders stretching into 2023. The British carmaker, which began as Rolls-Royce in Manchester, England nearly 120 years ago and is now owned by Germany’s BMW, said that it…

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A Rolls-Royce design for a small modular nuclear reactor (SMR) will likely receive UK regulatory approval by mid-2024 and be able to produce grid power by 2029, Paul Stein, chairman of Rolls-Royce Small Modular Reactors, told Reuters. The British government asked its nuclear regulator to start the approval process in March, having backed Rolls-Royce’s $546…

BMW posted robust yearly sales growth of 8.4 percent with a combined sales of 2.52 million vehicles delivered globally last year and doubling its sales of fully-electric cars, said a company report, positioning BMW as the top leading premium car brand worldwide. The Munich-based auto manufacturer’s sales count included numbers from MINI and Rolls-Royce as…

LONDON—Luxury carmaker Rolls-Royce, a unit of Germany’s BMW, said on Monday its sales soared 49 percent to a record high in 2021 despite the global coronavirus pandemic, as demand worldwide for luxury vehicles surged. In an online presentation, Rolls-Royce CEO Torsten Müller-Ötvös said the carmaker sold 5,586 vehicles to customers in more than 50 countries,…

LONDON—Rolls-Royce said it had agreed to sell its Spanish unit ITP Aero to a consortium led by Bain Capital Private Equity for 1.7 billion euros ($2 billion), helping the British engineering group hit its 2 billion pound target for disposals. The sale, announced on Monday, sent Rolls-Royce shares soaring 11 percent to 148 pence, their…

The family of a retired chauffeur has helped celebrate his 100th birthday—by tracking down and buying the luxury Rolls Royce he drove 60 years ago. Eddie Hughes was given the powerful 6.25-litre V8-engined car by his family as a surprise birthday present. They tracked down the car in Beverly Hills, California, and paid 32,000 pounds…

LONDON—British engineering company Rolls-Royce said it agreed to sell its 23.1 percent stake in AirTanker Holdings, the owner of 14 A330 refuelling jets, for 189 million pounds ($261 million), in its latest disposal aimed at reducing debt. The aero-engine maker wants to sell 2 billion pounds worth of assets to help repair its balance sheet…

LONDON—Rolls Royce has enough funding to weather the crisis in the aviation industry caused by the pandemic, its chief executive said on Thursday after the engine maker plunged to a record £4 billion ($5.6 billion) underlying loss for 2020. The British company said its cash burn should halve this year, and turn positive in the…