Car appreciation... the aesthetics, the engineering, etc

That’s ace😎

I drove the turbo-diesel estate version of this quite a lot when it was new, the thing that stuck in my mind was that it accelerated harder under partial throttle pedal requests than at WOT.

Quite confusing at first before you got used to it.

We briefly had a v6 auto (4s slush drive) estate one of these in not quite black (sort of a murky purple?) in early 00's as a stop gap car, remember it being obscenely cheap at only 5 years old and no one wanted it. Had it as family wagon for a year between A6's. Annoyingly it would have been much more reliable than the 2005 ish A6 allroad we had waited for using the Scorpio.

Vauxhall Carlton/Senator/Omega? Was the GM equiv car, equally slushy, but exactly what you want for just comfort, reliability and a big useful boot.