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Launched in the first week of a new century and a new millennium, an auspicious time for Rolls-Royce Motor Cars to have announced its latest, all-new convertible - the Corniche.

It is a gloriously stylish, effortlessly capable machine, every inch a hand-built Rolls-Royce.

The Corniche is built only to order, each motor car individually commissioned to match precisely the personal needs and tastes of its owner. Each is so personally distinctive that it might fairly be described as a limited edition of one.

From midnight on December 31st, 2002 the illustrious name of Rolls-Royce is will separate from the now Volkswagen-owned Bentley Motor Cars and to become part of BMW. It could be that for collectors and aficionados of the truly hand-built, Crewe-built Rolls-Royce motor car, this one might prove to be quite literally its ultimate expression.