You are never rowing gears in your current car. No matter how many paddles you flick.

I had Giulietta and a family member a Delta. They were fairly reliable.

A straight six and rear wheel drive in a compact hatchback body.

No Mk1 Skoda Superb invalidates the list. I rode on the back of one as a taxi years ago and the leg room was vast.

A friend’s mother also had an A2, also a 1.4 (I think it had around 75bhp). I rode in it many times enjoying the spaciousness and neat packaging and tidy dimensions.

DS is pathetic pillage of an iconic name plate put on top of some boring and conventional cars with some screens in them.

This has won. Stop everything.

Of Italy’s big four design houses — Pininfarina, Italdesign, Bertone and Zagato — it was Zagato that always had the most obvious flair for the dramatic.

It’s a Grand Tourer in the broadest sense of the term.

My aunt had a Mk1 Scénic 1.6e. Now I didn’t particularly like the car very much (I used to refer to the throttle as noise switch, pressing it would make everything louder but really weren’t going anywhere in a hurry in it), but what it was extremely comfortable, agreeable and nice to be in, in that way only French…

The Avantime is one those great cars that deserved better but nobody understood. It shares this honor with cars like the Audi A2, the Toyota iQ or the Chrysler Airflow.

Fords and Renaults for our family interestingly!

Felicitats Alex!

Interesting, my mother had two Mk1 Renault 5s, then inherited the 11 which lasted for fourteen years or so. And then the first real new car I was in with her: a Mk1 Focus 1.6 6 door.

Do you daily it? If not I wouldn’t bother.

Ours was a GTL model my mother inherited from her father (it was his last car before he had to stop driving). It served us well for 14 years and over 200.000km.

I remember that too (I think they became mandatory in 1997 on new cars) and aftermarket kits became available.

Peugeot had a hardtop convertible in 1936 with the 402 Eclipse.

Possibly those markets can’t afford the extra dough of the manual.

It’s curious that, despite wearing the Corse plates, it seems to be in Gravel specification.