Quattroporte. Four-door. Sounds much better in Italian, doesn’t it? So it’s a saloon, but one of the more exotic, and an attempt at bridging the luxury/supercar divide that pre-dated the Porsche Panamera and Aston Martin Rapide.

Launched in 2004, the modern-day Quattroporte marked a major advance for Maserati in build quality, reliability, comfort and general desirability, with its Pininfarina-sculpted curves and carefully crafted interior. It managed to be true to the brand’s heritage yet also to bring it bang up to date, and the Quattroporte was, for the first time, a serious rival to the top-end Jaguar XJ, Mercedes-Benz S-Class and BMW 7-series models.