The first large European minivan (or people mover as we call them) would have been the Renault Espace.

I'll bite.

TBH in London you've got pretty much no choice!

However I did once see on the Kings Road (in Chelsea) an Elise completely loaded to the gunwales with building supplies.

No, but you are the only one answering it with taste :D

TBH any 406 is a great, great car. Probably the best European mainstream saloon ever made. I had a middling 1.8 and it's poise and fluency were startling - and so handsome. I imagine the coupes are even better but tbh they never blew my skirt up as much as the saloon did.

Yeah, I'm afraid you've probably got no chance - I've got a feeling the age limit is probably 25 these days. Insurance companies long since wised up and you've got no chance of doing an end run around them. Most classic policies that save you significant amounts of money usually have mileage limits, specifically…

The Escort is essentially a Sierra in cocktail dress. Sierra platform and running gear, Escort up top.

It would depend on your age and the usage I would think (I'm guessing you're in the UK?).

That, my friend, is a Nokia 6310i.

I think it's against the law here in the UK as well, but I'd have to check The Highway Code.

Then remove it with your hands.

In or around 1997/98 I had one of these.

There's a coupe of 130s here for about the £6000 mark, but a nice one looks a lot more. My classic-Ford-value-o-pedia that resides in my head tells me £6000 is very, very stiff money for a Granada.

Yeah, you know I what? I so would be as well :)

It was one of the first cars in the UK to become a hot rodders favourite in the seventies. They weigh *nothing* and hot rodders are not daft, so I would think they can be made to go quite well (and cheaply - it is a Ford after all!).

Prefects are all four doors. Anglias are two doors and boggo versions are Populars. They all share the 100E body shell.

MkII Granadas are not without their charms though - and a 130 would have been a much, much more expensive car at the time.

Also all UK market MkII Granadas were four doors (or estates). The 2 door was only available on the continent.