This stunning SLS has just over 9,000 miles on the odometer and a full Mercedes-Benz main dealer service history.

In the case of the SLS, the roadster is a rare instance of the soft-top version being more practical and useable than its hard-top counterpart, and mostly because gullwing doors clearly require some thinking ahead when it comes to parking bays and headroom.

The other benefit with a roadster, of course, is that there’s rather less metal separating you from whatever extraordinary noises might be emanating from the engine bay.

Frankly, if you even remotely like cars and engines, you’ll never grow weary of listening to its pyrotechnic soundtrack of demented rips, yowls, snorts and shrieks, punctuated only by a bass-line of equally bonkers barks, rumbles, booms and explosions.

We think the way it performs and sounds is rendered all the better by the fact that it is, essentially, an analogue machine and doesn’t have some vast and vulgar touch-screen lap-top bolted to the dash...