This story must be true because the man in the pub told me. He had asked his franchised dealer friend in Cheshire to find him a specific nearly-new car. The dealer got straight on with the job and located just the model with 5,000-miles on the clock at another franchised dealer in Perth.

A deposit was paid and the dealer despatched his man to do the deal and collect the car. When the Cheshireite arrived at the Scottish dealership the mileage was, in fact, 11,000. “Sorry, we forgot to up-date the website,” was the explanation.