Showing just 28,000 miles on its odometer, ‘Y15 MGC’ is finished in Granite Grey with a Rosso leather interior and a roof whose colour is halfway between the two.

Every inch the Italian supercar, it would have set its first owner back almost £100,000 fourteen years ago.

It’s racked up another four owners since then, plus our seller.

The Granite Grey metallic finish is almost black under some lights, which means that while the Maserati looks magnificently moody from every angle, every single mark and blemish will be highlighted.

But that’s okay because the condition is so good you’re free to indulge your inner Batman fantasies because the coachwork is genuinely very good for a car of this age.

Mind you, cars like this tend to be used only on high days and holidays, only coming out of the garage for special occasions, allowing them to dodge the sort of car-park dinks and scrapes that are inevitable when you use a car as your daily driver.

This one certainly seems to have conformed ...