For my dog on the back seat I use an old thick blanket folded to cover the rear seat.

It doubles up as a full floor cover when the rear seats are folded down. Came in useful when I brought the Christmas tree home.

Just washed it today. And realise I need to buy myself a stepladder or stool

There are lots on Amazon if you search for XC40 Accessories.

Wipers are really good on my XC40 R Design.

I also like the way the water emerges from the wipers not a jet spray.

I use a screenwash from B&Q.

It was one of those times when I wished I'd said something clever. He also said to my wife that the car (Q2) looked very sexy and he hoped it wasn't an insensitive thing to say to a woman.

We thought we'd dropped into an episode of the Fast Show with Swiss Tony.

No walking stick here, yet!

As oosername points out it's pretty much the same in any automatic car. Push forward and engage R to reverse, pull back engage D to move on.

I have no idea of the reasoning for the direction, but why change it from the expected norm?

I was in the market for a car in the XC40 class over the past year and my shortlist came down to XC40 T5, Evoque P300 and Q3 45TFSI, which I really struggled to choose between despite numerous test drives. (I didn't include Toyota/Lexus because of their auto boxes, nor BMW which I just can't take a...