Unbelievably, it has been a decade since Alfa Romeo revived the Giulia name for its achingly pretty junior executive saloon, the first of just two models to use the billion-dollar Giorgio platform tha

Once they headed the company car parks of Eighties Britain, now these executive icons offer prestige, nostalgia and pure driving pleasure from £5k. But which of these trading-floor titans best rewards the shrewd classic motorist?

£254,200 OTR/£282,000 as tested/£5,077 pcm WHY IT’S HERE: What has a hybrid makeover – and Mulliner buffing – added to the world’s best grand tourer? DRIVER: Ollie Kew TOPGEAR’S BENTLEY CONTINENTAL GT

(1998-2005)

YOU’LL PAY: £45,000 YOU’LL LOOK LIKE: A LOTTERY WINNER ON THEIR WAY TO THE GREEK PILLAR EMPORIUM Has the 360 finally aged out of its blobby phase and into used Ferrari temptation? Though its curves we

(2001-2008)