[John Elwin]

Originally Posted by bauble

A road car is a tool do a job, as long as it starts when I want it to, and stops when I need it to, not a lot else in between is of critical importance. I would never own/drive any car for what it could do for my 'image', only because it was fun to drive. My best 'image' car was an Alfa Romeo Veloce, however, despite being able to overtake rather well it handled like a bowl of soup, (as Innes Ireland put it.)
To be honest I never could afford anything really posh anyway.

I spotted just the classic for you today, Bob - a Nova with a boot. It's so long since I last saw one I can't remember if it had a different name to the Nova hatch.