Fancy a fast four-door?

RM SOTHEBY’S, CLIVEDEN HOUSE. 8 JULY

ACA, KING’S LYNN. 14-15 JUNE

For its inaugural auction held during the Concorso d’Eleganza Villa d’Este weekend (p12), Broad Arrow’s 24-25 May event at the nearby Villa Erba estate produced a remarkable reflection of the show car

BONHAMS GOODWOOD FESTIVAL OF SPEED. 11 JULY

It’s back to the Haynes Motor Museum for Charterhouse and the South West auctioneer has plucked some fine fruit from the classic tree

If it hadn’t been for a keen online rival bidder, you would now be reading about how I’d just bought a Renault Avantime and how I was embarking on an ill-judged foray into weird French car ownership.