In 1907, the British weekly magazine Autocar bestowed upon a title that has stuck to this day. “The Best Car in the World” was adopted as a slogan and rightly characterized many decades of automotive excellence. Not so much by the 1970s, though. By that time, and (the latter distinguished only by its grille) had become anachronistic luxury cars based on the Silver Shadow unibody platform, which was launched in 1965 and made through 1980, mostly in four-door form.

At the same time, stylish two-door coupes and convertibles were offered to customers who demanded them, and those were coachbuilt by Rolls-Royce subsidiary Mulliner Park Ward. Easily the most expensive British automobiles of the era, the coupe and convertible models were christened Corniche in 1971 as a nod to the roads hugging

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