For info, the car is 7 months old, 4200 miles, £21325, almost exactly 10k under list if you include the price of the options. I would have been happy to pay more for the right vehicle, but the Mercs offered were either all diesel, or mid £30k, so no good to me, and the seats I tried were no better than the Ford, and many of the options were not fitted, presumably too expensive for the original buyers.

Entwood may be interested, the car has technology via its tow bar connection to the tin tent, that should the van go into swerve mode, the car automatically takes control to stop it! Not that I will be towing.

I tried to see if BMW had anything, one 528i in petrol available in the country on their list, 120 miles, £35k or some such. Everything else is diesel. All the sales staff in all the garages are admitting that all buyers are coming in for petrol cars, the Ford salesman was told by Ford on a recent course that they will not be making diesels in 10 years. I suspect it will be less than that.
