Highlights Lovely example in fine order Substantial history file One of only 221 made and 39 right-hand-drive 0-60mph in 4.8 seconds, 158mph top speed Twin-turbo V6 Overview Everyone loves an oddball – or at least they do when it slips into the annals of motoring history and develops a cult following.

And when it comes to oddities, the Maserati Karif certainly ticks a few boxes.

For starters, they only made 221 of them, between 1988 and 1991.

The quirky two-door coupé was based on the BiTurbo Quattroporte but was a coupé spinoff.

Now, before you say “didn’t the Ghibli do that?” the answer to that is yes, it did.

But not in quite such a berserk way.

Before the Ghibli brought in some softer edges and a slightly plusher dynamic, the Karif was a coupé that looked like the byproduct of an experiment with an Oxford Mathematical Instruments kit – you know, the one in the silver tin that everyone carried their compass in at secondary school.

A hotchpotch of contradictory angles and squa...