EMERGING CLASSICS VAUXHALL VECTRA
For better or worse, things were simpler 20 years ago. Since then, globalisation and market diversity have brought us retail choice, cheap electronics, mass mobile communications and easily-accessible leased vehicles. If you want a new personal or company car these days, the world is your oyster.
This seemed to happen some time in the 2000s, when car companies hit upon the literally capital notion of becoming finance houses in which motor cars were just a commodity in a lease deal. Variety of choice became a priority in the transaction. Monthly payment costs were homogenised. The major sales questions became: what badge would sir or madam like on their rental car, and what interior would they like to inhabit during their three-year
