Buy them before we do: second-hand picks for 12 June

Jaguar F-Type SVR, £60,000: VXR: 161mph? Pfft. The F-Type SVR is a two-seat monster that will hit the double-ton. And this one is almost half its original price. It’s nicely specced, with carbon-ceramic brakes and a tasteful deployable rear spoiler (not the fixed, yobbish one).

Bentley Flying Spur, £50,000: High-speed luxury doesn’t get more cosseting than this. Sat in the back, working or relaxing, you’ll have no idea your chauffeur is on a storming 200mph autobahn run. This one-owner, 45,000-mile car has a full service record of its six-year life.

Audi RS6 Avant, £38,000: Helpfully large, stupendously rapid and supremely usable, this stealthy Mythos Black RS6 Avant has £12,000 worth of extras on it, including a top speed limiter raised to 174mph. Its full service history shows an important gearbox service at 40,000 miles.

Maserati Quattroporte, £10,000: The alloys have seen better days but you don’t have to look at them when you’re sat in that dashing navy leather cabin. And it’s a Maserati for £10,000 with a good chunk of MOT left. You’ll hit 171mph and the sonorous 4.2-litre V8 will delight you on the way there.

Auction watch

Audi Quattro 10V: What better way to celebrate 40 years of Quattro than by buying this pristine example from 1986? For just shy of £30,000, its new owner walked away with the original 10-valve engine and what appears to be a mercifully unmolested model – even with the original numberplates and dealer’s floor mats. A modest 76,000 miles have been covered in its 34 years, with £8000 spent on brakes, belts and tyres.

Future classic

Honda S2000, £6200: One of the best examples of having your cake and eating it. You will be purchasing a supremely reliable car with a bombproof 9000rpm engine and all of the joyous driving thrills it can provide. And you can do so safe in the knowledge that such engaging drop-top dynamism will remain highly sought after in the years ahead, so your relatively modest investment should be well protected. This £6200 example has done 120,000 miles, which may seem like a lot but it has had only one owner since being bought new in 2002 – and they’ve apparently looked after it, as the full service history should show. The interior understandably looks a bit tired, but some cash would easily help spruce that up.

Clash of the classifieds

Brief: Can you find me a decent wedding car for £8000?