We call the car park at work Carmageddon as the parking situation is so dire.

To make things more complicated, in the absence of a company car scheme we all seem to have bought the same car so finding and releasing your vehicle in order to get home at night is getting a tad challenging.

The quant researcher in me reports that our car park consists of 9% Golfs, 8% Minis and 6% Clios (thrift ever being our watchword outside London) and is 47% German.