The VW Kombi van, cultural icon of unreliability, has survived on its redoubtable cool factor all these years. And probably a lot of servicing and vital organ transplants. My 78 was notorious for not starting by key, meaning every parking spot needed to be carefully selected for a sufficient slope to jump start it, and once going would often self-immolate, usually in peak hour traffic just to add to the suspense. Don’t open the side door all the way as it’ll have to be unjammed by a screwdriver, and never hide your stash under the seat behind that rubber flap; the cops know that spot well.

Illustrator Chris McNally obviously has a soft spot for the T series, and along with Mik Gaspay and animators Kate Klingbiel and David Lauer produced this tribute to the Transporter, complete with my favourite scenarios the “push it into the workshop” and old favourite “you’re gonna need a new engine”.