Luckily, if can manage with just the usual legroom you could find yourself behind the wheel of a standard wheelbase for much less.

Because this discreet metallic tungsten Bentayga has an estimate of around a fifth of the price of a new EWB – and you aren’t going to be short of optional extras to play with either as ‘LD18 DXE’ is fully loaded; we’ll go into the details later but trust us: No one is going to complaint about any lack of legroom or toys.

The seller has owned it since July 2021 too, and tells us that it comes with a full electronic service history.

He hasn’t used it much, covering fewer than 4,000 miles a year in it – but then he was running it alongside a Mulsanne.

The combination of peerless design and fastidious assembly allied with limited use and peerless curation result in a car that could be a couple of years old rather than eight.

Admire the shutlines, which you’d struggle to get a cigarette paper between, and the panel alignment, which could be tested against ...