Moving out from the town centre, to the ice-covered supermarket parking lot, I kept my camera in check and aimed it at some of the more interesting machinery parked amongst the family haulers. It always seems there are more fascinating ways to do your grocery runs than just the average vanilla wagon.

Starting with the menacing black Cadillac, of course.

I love the STS, I don’t hide it. These always look like they have a body or two in the trunk, and with the rear glass tinted as much as this, there can be a couple of spare ones in the rear footwell. Just in case.

Or if you need to haul the bodies — I mean groceries a bit further down the cottage path, you can take the forest green Discovery instead. These always seem to have a bit more soul than the Kia next to this.

And it’s not difficult to believe you can accommodate almost as many squirming kids into this as the Sharalahambra parked in the next space over.

Alas, it’s a Td5 and not a V8. I’ve seen one of those tooling around town, too.

This two-door Saab 900 was in definitely better shape than the mossed-over one I saw some time earlier.

And I couldn’t resist this comparison shot with the Avensis. White saloon cars separated by 30 years – it’s not difficult to guess which one I would take even today.

The Saab’s behind is even such a sweet and simple design, too. It’s not the duck’s butt the 99 has, but a sleeker one.

The rusted-over hood treatment isn’t solely reserved to Volkswagens, by the way. Here you see an early-’90s Corolla done up the same way.

And it’s not even the worst thing on the Corolla, in my opinion. With the slam job, the tints, the mirror shocker and the stapled-on front lip, the hood actually stands out quite classy. The rest of the car is rusting on its own.

[Images: Copyright 2014 Hooniverse/Antti Kautonen]