The UK second hand market has gone berserk

The inside is quite, erm, brown. Even the steering wheel is brown. Do you like brown?

On the Allegro, I was only suggesting that it was modern — front wheel drive and independent, hydraulic suspension — compared to the Escort, which was a rebodied 1950s car. I hold no brief for either. But I do think that estate is stylish in a late-70s way — even if it’s spoilt by the 80s ‘modernisations’.

Oh, I do like that Audi. It could go in (or even contain) my collection of late-70s electromechanical devices that I was too young to buy at the time and that my parents judged not worth affording. (To be fair to them, they were busy doing their version of Vić’s school-fee shuffle, so Audis weren’t really on their radar.)

Also from the days when Audis were plain but well thought-through, before they became the wankers’ playthings they are today.

I mean that Laguna is actually quite nice isn’t it?

Just the old thing about how lucky or otherwise one might feel if it was on their drive…

I think he’s a vampire or something, doesn’t seem to like daylight anyway…🤔

I really like that Audi - as Dubya said - built when Audis were proper cars that rivalled Saab for intelligent drivers..

But the Laguna! That could easily be a rival for my late lamented Outback. Nice light coloured interior, sunroofs, auto and green (even better than my metallic beige Subaru). Very tempted...

Well, I see that it might work for someone. But it’s an awkwardly proportioned thing, and I’d struggle to get inside or get my feet on one pedal at a time. I’ll leave it, thanks all the same.