This is a fascinating little car and one that has charmed all of us here at HQ with its endlessly whimsical ways.

Everywhere you look there’s something you won’t have seen before – it’s bristling with all sorts of unique, or at least very distinctive, features, designs, ideas and technologies.

This particular vehicle has been kept warm, dry and stored for many years, having first been registered in the UK in 2007, at which point it had 40,218 kms on its odometer.

Today, the odometer is showing 40,581 kms so, as you will be able to discern, this car has been kicking its heels for the best part of 20 years.

The vendor tells us that the car received a light service shortly before its last MoT, which is valid until 5.11.25.

It appears to us to be in really quite remarkable condition and, if you didn’t know better, you’d think Gunther and Wolfgang must have put the finishing touches to it somewhere in Ingolstadt last month, not 54 years ago.

The curvaceous bodywork - somewhere between...