There are obvious signs of the passage of time and then there are the subtle ones. Obvious ones include the greying. Even the greying starts out surreptitiously, behind the ears where it thinks you won’t notice it. It lurks there, whispering in the minds of other hairs, spreading dissatisfaction and sedition. Before you know it, you have a full-scale grey protest not seen since the time they tried to take away the over 70s medical card.

IT is fair to say things have not exactly been silky smooth chez Peugeot in recent times what with ownership battles, labour strife, financial woes, and plummeting