Ford's Mondeo (00-07) would be my choice for a large family saloon.

The car was killed by its high price of £491, for which a "normal" family saloon could be had and less than 10 were made.

The 7 series is a family saloon, not a Bond car.

And it had a top speed of around 105mph, at a time when most family saloons were struggling to reach 70mph.

Thus we have the unusual design detail that the family saloon was built narrower at one end (for the servants) than the other.

Murdoch dived behind the body of a family saloon, away from the fire.

Even by the early 1960s, the idea of rear-engined small family saloons was still considered to be reasonably popular.

I want a name that says "up yours" to every two year-old family saloon on the road!

The solution was simple, of course: produce a new family saloon.

They are analogous to the family saloons that car production lines turn out by the thousand.