• Preceding enthusiast ownership from 2009 to 2020 • Automatic transmission • Substantial service history • Recently serviced • 'On the button' Based on the Silver Shadow II, the Rolls-Royce Silver Spirit and Bentley Mulsanne were announced in the autumn of 1980.

Heavily revised styling featured a lower waistline, increased glass area and a more modern angular look, while beneath the skin significant improvements had been made to the newcomers' self-levelling rear suspension.

Rectangular headlights graced the front of a Rolls-Royce product for the first time and the oft-changed radiator became wider and squatter in both versions.

Inside, the Crewe firm's exemplary standards of equipment and finish were maintained, the most noticeable change being the adoption of separate rear seats and the reinstatement of folding picnic tables.

The UK launch price was a just short of £50,000, or around £270,000 in today's money! The Mulsanne would remain in production until 1992, by which time the...