Rolls-Royce Logo — Rolls-Royce is a group of companies, all derived from the company British of cars and aircraft founded by Henry Royce and Charles Stewart Rolls in 1906. The companies are: Rolls-Royce Motor Cars Limited, a new luxury carmaker owned by BMW, which started deliveries of its first model, the Phantom, in January 2003. Rolls-Royce plc by far the most important economically, is a British engineering company specializing in products for turbine, particularly engine aircraft, but has recently added marine propulsion systems and energy to its portfolio, providing a wide range of services and products industrial, civil and military.
Bentley Motors is the continuation of the original division of Rolls-Royce cars. Since 1998 the company is owned by the Volkswagen Group. Cars Bentley and Rolls-Royce have shared many mechanical similarities from the absorption in 1931 of Bentley by Rolls-Royce, often differing only in small details such as the radiator grille. Since 2003 the company has not been re-enabled build cars called Rolls-Royce. More