Automotive group Rolls-Royce Motor Cars has announced plans to invest more than £300 million to extend its manufacturing facilities in Goodwood in the south of England. By Leatherbiz.

It opened the Goodwood site at the start of 2003 and said this new project would involve “the single largest injection of capital” into the business since then.

In the 22 years since the site opened, the Goodwood manufacturing plant has undergone “significant internal changes”, Rolls-Royce said. However, the building itself has remained largely unchanged.

In 2003, the company employed 300 people at Goodwood and produced one car per day. Now, 2,500 people work at the site and production has increased to 28 cars per day.

The extension will create additional space for the increasingly complex and high-value bespoke projects that customers are asking Rolls-Royce to undertake. It said more and more of its clients now define luxury “as something deeply personal to them”.

It will also prepare the manufacturing facility for the company’s transition to “an all-battery electric vehicle (BEV) future”.