Bentley Arnage T Mulliner

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At its launch in 1998, the Bentley Arnage used a twin-turbo version of BMW’s 4.4-litre V8 which produced 349bhp and 420lb/ft of torque, sufficient to launch the 2.5 tonne beast to 60mph in just 6.2 seconds on its way to a top speed of 160mph. Equally impressive was the price tag - £160,000 excluding options.

By 2002, an even more powerful version had been introduced, the Arnage T, which featured a comprehensively re-engineered version of Bentley's big 6.8-litre V8 including a new Bosch engine management system and twin turbos which raised the output to 459bhp and 645lb/ft – sufficient grunt to crack 60mph in 5.5 seconds and touch 170mph flat out, making it the fastest road-going Bentley ever made.

But it isn’t the colossal performance that makes the Arnage T special; it is the fabulous interior that really impresses anyone lucky enough to get inside. In the words of the Daily Telegraph: “The cabin is the apotheosis of wood-and-leather luxury coddling the occupants like no other car. The rear seats are beyond comfortable, they are an occasion. Just sitting in front of the exquisite dashboard and seeing the tiny instrument needles creep past Eric Gill’s locomotive typeface – there isn’t a cheap way into this sort of hedonism, other cars simply don’t have these things.” Or, as Jeremy Clarkson put it: “It’s like Blenheim Palace – with a rocket up its bum!”

This smart facelift quad headlight Arnage T is a desirable Mulliner spec car dating from June 2004 supplied by Bentley of Glasgow and is finished in grey, boasting full black quilted hide throughout with diamond stitching, turned aluminium dash, dark walnut trim, embossed electric heated front and rear seats, navigation, sunroof, quad exhausts and rather attractive 18inch split rim alloy wheels painted to match the body. It has covered 95,626 miles from new with a good service history comprising 11 stamps to date including PDI, the last in June 2019 at 94,921 miles and has an MOT until March 2020 with no advisories recorded.

Motoring does not get any more imperious than this and the lucky new owner will feel (and look) like a millionaire every time they slip behind the wheel.