Toyota’s decision to re-name this latest generation Auris a Corolla in the interests of global name-tag unification was such a late call that the finished article had already completed the full motor show roundelay proudly badged as the former before hitting the streets as the latter. Auris never struck me as a particularly I-just-have-to-get-me-one-of-those names …

The very first iteration of Audi’s Big Grille was smeared across the front of an wholly innocent A8 in 2005, and today, now model ubiquitous some 15 years later, the company still struggles to make it look any better than the business end of an inflatable doll wearing chrome lipstick. I recall, at the launch …