They're swift, slick and they smile. They sell to couples with babies, middle-aged fatties in trainers and track suit bottoms, tieless youths with shirts outside their trousers. At VW, where style and image have become everything, they are in suits and you are sir. At Honda they wear polo shirts and call you mate. They put you at ease, offer you coffee, press brochures in your hands.
Prices have fallen, things are tough, commission is hard to find.
There's a guy outside Mazda in a Chrysler Voyager People Carrier in which he has installed sixteen speakers and is blasting out garage at more than 100 decibels. He has the windows down. No one tells him to stop. We are in sight here of a whole bunch of past Cardiff landmarks. Grange Farm, which gave Grangetown its name.