Twenty-two-year old saloons don’t come much smarter than this one-owner, 38,937-mile example that hales from a deceased estate.

The vendor informs us that the Rover has ‘always been garaged and rarely used in the wet, and not only still feels but smells like a new car’! Its sparkling silver paintwork is teamed with black cloth interior upholstery that’s complemented by wood trim for the facia, while the car rides on apparently unmarked period-correct nine-spoke alloy wheels shod with Dunlop tyres.

In summary the vendor categorises the 109bhp 1.6-litre DOHC K-Series engine, five-speed manual gearbox, four-door saloon bodywork and paintwork as ‘excellent, and the interior trim as ‘good’.

This fine specimen is now available for sale at No Reserve complete with: factory-fitted radio/CD; a spare wheel that has clearly never been used (the pimples are still on the tyre!); tools that are still in the blister pack in which they were supplied; the original bill of sale, option list and sales...