I have a Honda e and honestly, it’s wonderful as a small car, and my wife and I fight over the keys for it rather than the more comfortable faithful old Volvo. Small cars are a delight for 90% of use – being easy to manoeuvre, and the handling is usually more fun. The only downside is that our increasingly lanky children are complaining about the lack of space. But who can complain at doing a u-turn in a drop-off car-park.

BMW’s i Vision Dee concept looks wonderful, and electric should allow for some more experimentation in shapes as there’s no longer such a big lump of engine to accommodate up front.

Of course, if public transport could get better that would be nice too. Far too often I think I’ll take the train then I realise I’ll lose an hour and a half from my day. That’s a big ask. Too infrequent, too slow, too likely to be cancelled. At least around here.

Quite a prescient thing to say 35 years ago, not least because many large UK cities brought back trams and we’ve had decades of the congestion charge.

Modern car design is an interesting place.

Electric models have managed to straddle futurism with tradition; the Polestar models are lovely to look at but BMW went a little bit too ‘Hot Wheels’ with its Z-range. Tesla continues to look like off-brand Lotus cars, not suprising considering their original Roadster was a Lotus chassis with Tesla gubbins. Not a fan of the spartan interiors.

Smaller cars are perhaps the most interesting. BMW skipped the dictionary when redesigning the Mini but the Fiat/Abarth 500 remains a design classic that is also fun to drive.

Many decade-old dinosaur-powered cars seem to have had the same designers as Michael Bay’s Transformers movies. Not nice.