With just two former UK keepers and approximately £15,000 spent on it since the seller bought it in 2020, ‘LA55 XGM’ is an unusually well-fettled example of a classic British long-wheelbase super-saloon.

Finished in a regal dark blue, it is every inch the aristocrat – which is probably why it was chosen to transport ministers, something the seller tells us led to it being photographed in Downing Street.

The supercharged 4.2-litre V8 gives it plenty of pep for those times when it needed to put some distance between the officials and a problem, while its top-of-the-range specification included a pair of TV screens to keep them occupied – and picnic tables for them to lean on while they dealt with ministerial papers.

Yes, it does have 148,000 miles on the clock but it’s got an equally impressive service history and is ULEZ exempt, so if you’re looking for cheap but refined motoring, you might have struck lucky.

Quinn Lyons, who some of you might know by their former name of R.A.

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