This car is in excellent condition and starts, goes, performs and handles every bit as well as it looks – and it looks great.

We know this car - we have auctioned it before.

It came to us then through a vendor who is very well-known to us and has built a successful niche business on the back of his expert understanding of the Japanese Jaguar market and his ability to select and import only the very best examples.

So, this car was one of his Japanese imports, and arrived in this country in 2023.

The car’s Japanese back-story tells us two things.

Firstly, that it has spent its life immersed in a culture where people tend to take pride in their cars and usually spend a great deal of time and effort pampering them and making sure no harm comes to them.

Secondly, that it comes from a country where salt is thrown over the shoulders of sumo wrestlers, not chucked all over the roads in industrial quantities like it is in the UK.

Ergo , Japanese cars are nearly always free of the sort of...