Crisis? What crisis? For you and me, perhaps, but not for Bentley buyers. The VW-owned British luxury carmaker announced today a 20% increase in global sales for the first half of 2011 with 2,978 cars delivered to customers, the best start for the company since 2008.
The luxury marque attributes this surge in sales to the high demand for the new Continental GT as well as the increasing popularity in (least we forget, communist…) China, where Bentley sales have risen by 57% compared to the same period last year, to 680 cars. Thus, it has become the manufacturer’s second best market, behind only the US (George Orwell's "Animal Farm", anyone?).
Not to be outdone by China, the capitalist West has contributed its fair, albeit smaller, share to Bentley’s rise. In Europe, sales have increased by 25% (494 cars) and in the USA by 23% (907 cars). Only in Japan, due to the recent catastrophic natural disasters, and the Middle East, where political unrest rules, have sales declined.
So, well done Bentley - and well done to all the fat cats out there, be they…capitalists or…communists, who are rapidly increasing in numbers each day.
4 Comments:
The rich are getting richer; the middle-class is fading into obscurity; the poor are still poor. SNAFU
wrong, I work in China, and I see more Bentley there than my home town West Los Angeles. it's mostly the poor Chinese just recently striking it rich, and the only way to feel rich is to own a Bentley. I'm a middle class myself, but I own a Bentley also, it's 2004, not new, but it's a Bentley, and I feel pretty rich entertaining my colleague. bottom line, it's up to you, either feel sorry for yourself or feel good about what life has to offer.
It's not about feeling sorry, or envy, or whatever. Personally, I don't have any kind of grudge against individuals that have made it and can afford a good car. Even more so if they know how to drive it, and not just bought it for the badge -but to each his own.
Even though I am a car fanatic, I believe there are much more important things in life.
Well done then, and enjoy your Bentley. But you have to admit that, during a global economic crisis, it is a bit awkward that Bentley's sales see a phenomenal rise, not just in China which is prospering, but also in problematic economies like Europe and the USA. So some people are gaining, while others are called to pay the cost of those economies' huge debts.
But that's life, and it's surely not fair.
@ anon 1
Right. The Crisis was caused by the rich in the first place. Fraudsters in Banker clothes, corporate attire and White House black and white.
@ anon 2
That bullshit is happening in China not here, because the people there have worked hard. People in those parts are very industrious and tough. There are good balanced financial laws put up there. People save.
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