Popular culture, for better or worse, creates natural associations with cars for us, the viewers and spectators. Drivers of 105E Anglias, for example, must have collectively felt their hearts sink with a resounding thud when a flying Ford featured in a Harry Potter movie, in one fell swoop condemning them to a lifetime of ‘ooh, you’ve got a Harry Potter car’ comments. Conversely, such associations are often embraced and celebrated; the number of Dodge Chargers in the world that wear General Lee livery must surely be approaching the eye-watering quantity of Chargers that were destroyed in filming the show in the first place. In some cases, these fusing synapses focus more on the overt association than the specific car itself – how many Reliant Robins have you seen presented in dirty and scuzzy yellow, wearing Trotters Independent Traders livery, that have made you want to tap on the window and whisper ‘er… actually Delboy drove a Regal’? Ditto A-Team vans and Scooby-Doo
