What you heard is meaningless without a source.
Meanwhile, this is an actual RR press release:
ROLLS-ROYCE MOTOR CARS PRESSCLUB · ARTICLE.
If anything's changed, the car is even more popular now.
Source is somebody who knows several Rolls Royce dealers in Germany.
But of course Germany might be different to the rest of Europe.
Regarding your last sentence I disagree, but let’s wait and see.