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发帖数: 11530 | 1 Tycoon buys 30 Rolls-Royces for Macau hotel
Associated Press
By KELVIN CHAN September 17, 2014 4:17 AM
In this Tuesday, Sept. 16, 2014 photo provided by Rolls-Royce Motor Cars,
Louis XIII Holdings Ltd. Chairman Stephen Hung, left, poses with Rolls-Royce
Motor Cars CEO Torsten Mueller-Oetvoes at the Rolls-Royce's
headquarters in Goodwood, Britain. Hung, a Hong Kong tycoon, placed the
biggest ever order for Rolls-Royce cars, agreeing to buy 30 Phantoms for $20
million for a luxury resort he’s building in the global gambling capital
of Macau. Hung and Rolls-Royce executives signed the deal Tuesday at the
company’s Goodwood factory. (AP Photo/Rolls-Royce Motor Cars, Mark Bramley)
In this Tuesday, Sept. 16, 2014 photo provided by Rolls-Royce Motor Cars,
Louis XIII Holdings Ltd. Chairman Stephen Hung, left, poses with Rolls-Royce
Motor Cars CEO Torsten Mueller-Oetvoes at the Rolls-Royce's headquarters in
Goodwood, Britain. Hung, a Hong Kong tycoon, placed the biggest ever order
for Rolls-Royce cars, agreeing to buy 30 Phantoms for $20 million for a
luxury resort he’s building in the global gambling capital of Macau. Hung
and Rolls-Royce executives signed the deal Tuesday at the company’s
Goodwood factory. (AP Photo/Rolls-Royce Motor Cars, Mark Bramley)
HONG KONG (AP) — A Hong Kong tycoon has placed the biggest ever order for
Rolls-Royce cars, agreeing to buy 30 Phantoms to chauffeur guests at a
luxury resort he's building in the global gambling capital of Macau.
Stephen Hung's $20 million purchase surpasses the 14 Phantoms bought by Hong
Kong's Peninsula Hotel in 2006.
Hung and Rolls-Royce executives signed the deal Tuesday at the company's
Goodwood factory in England.
The Extended Wheelbase Phantoms will be used for guests at Hung's "ultra-
luxury" Louis XIII hotel, which is scheduled to open in early 2016.
Rolls-Royce said two of the cars will be the most expensive Phantoms ever
commissioned, complete with "gold-plated accents" on the outside and
interior.
Louis XIII Holdings Ltd. said it will pay the automaker a $2 million deposit
, $3 million more by the end of the year and the remaining $15 million when
the cars are delivered in the first half of 2016.
The Phantom's base price in Britain is about 450,000 pounds ($734,000)
including taxes, a company spokesman said, though prices vary by market and
many buyers order custom features that push prices much higher. Customers
have been known to spend more than $1 million on bespoke models.
With casino revenues of $45 billion last year, Macau is the world's most
lucrative gambling market, outpacing the Las Vegas Strip seven times over.
After authorities ended a casino monopoly a decade ago, newly wealthy
mainland Chinese high rollers started pouring in to wager at glitzy new
resorts built by foreign operators such as Las Vegas Sands Corp. and Wynn
Resorts.
However, the boom is beginning to fade as Chinese President Xi Jinping's
corruption crackdown starts to bite, putting a dampener on lavish spending
by officials and other wealthy Chinese. Macau's gambling revenues fell 6
percent in August, the third straight month of annual decline after five
years of uninterrupted growth.
Hung, a former investment banker, is known for his flamboyant style and the
resort looks to be the flashiest of the wave of expansion projects now under
construction in the tiny Chinese territory near Hong Kong.
Named after the French king who started building the famed Palace of
Versailles, the resort will boast a 20,000 square foot (1,860 square meter)
villa billed as the world's "most extravagant" hotel suite that will
reportedly cost $130,000 a night.
Hung has even enlisted a descendent of Louis XIII to help with the hotel's
design, based on French Renaissance and Baroque styling. | W***n
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