So I sat in a new Ford Custom (T7 Transporter) and here's my thoughts.

[Sasquatch]

I think more likely, what with their multiple current financial woes, they didn't want to/couldn't afford to develop a new model themselves from the ground up.

My Golf GTi caught fire, so you'll forgive me if I don't wax too lyrical about them.

 

[GruB]

20 years ago I went to a Ferrari on fire near Chilton Foliat. From a quick search I found Honest John's site and some statistics:

How many petrol cars catch fire each year?​

Petrol or diesel cars are about 20 times more likely to catch fire than EVs, with ICE vehicles experiencing 1,530 fires per 100,000 sold compared to 25 EV fires per 100,000 sold. In the UK, over 100,000 cars catch fire every year.

 

[DaveD]

20 years ago I went to a Ferrari on fire near Chilton Foliat. From a quick search I found Honest John's site and some statistics:

How many petrol cars catch fire each year?​

Petrol or diesel cars are about 20 times more likely to catch fire than EVs, with ICE vehicles experiencing 1,530 fires per 100,000 sold compared to 25 EV fires per 100,000 sold. In the UK, over 100,000 cars catch fire every year.

I saw hundreds of car fires in my Police career. All were petrol or diesel.
Most of them involved a box of matches or a lighter and an attempt to destroy forensic evidence.
We'll never know how many mysteriously caught fire after the cambelt failed or the engine failed in some other way, I'm guessing quite a few.
Statistics are sometimes misleading.

 

[Sasquatch]

My petrol Golf GTi went up spontaneously without the need for petrol or matches.

One second it was fine, the next the cabin was full of smoke in an instant. I somehow managed to stop without crashing and rolled out the driver door like Lewis Collins on his way to double tap a terrorist.

 

[T6Plumber]

I’m sure you thought it looked as cool as that mate, but I reckon this is a much more likely re-enactment

I somehow managed to stop without crashing and rolled out the driver door like Lewis Gemma Collins on her way to double tap a terrorist KFC.

 

[Bav]

like Lewis Collins on his way to double tap a terrorist.

You wish!

 

[Sasquatch]

You wish!

Indeed. No mortal man is as hard as Lewis Collins was.

 

[FerrisBFW]

Met him in a pub in Bristol back in the 80's, he was tiny!

 

[CJW]

Me and our son were very excited to join the Transporter gang, having dreamed about it for a long time. We were driving back from buying our T6 and we got caught up in a motorway jam. Could see a thin streak of deep black smoke over the hill. Realised the congestion was because of a vehicle fire. As we pulled alongside with the traffic still moving (very slowly) we were horrified to see a peach of split screen bug in inferno - due to the wind direction, the front looked untouched, the back end had melted away.

Rest of the journey home was a bit subdued.