We know this magnificent car.

It’s graced our portals before and we remember showering it in praise and plaudits at the time.

Since then it has, if anything, got even better, thanks to some recommissioning that included a major service and other repair and maintenance work, all provided by Bentley Hampshire.

The vendor is just the car’s second owner from new and he has carried on the tradition of diligent and conscientious curation established by his predecessor.

Aesthetically, mechanically and dynamically, the car appears to us to be in first-class condition.

We have driven it and can attest to its intoxicating combination of urbane class and refinement juxtaposed with sledgehammer grunt.

One minute it’s smoother than a Brylcreemed otter in an evening suit.

The next, it’s got a towel round its neck and punching sides of beef in a Bronx cold-store.

It inhabits both of these Jekyll and Hyde characters with equal capability, competence and credibility.

This potent yet stately au...