Audi Allroad- the old-style one. Perferably in V8 format, with a tartan rug in the boot for the dogs. Has to be that odd, oaky-green they come in, and with the all-plastic bumpers and arches. Plus a towbar, plenty of mud and a few scrapes.

A friend of mine back in the UK who I guess you could class as the Gentlemanly type has an old defender and the first Audi A8 that came with the W12 engine - looks very discreet in the grand scheme of things and compared to the latest Audis.

A true gentleman would never drive anything as vulgar as a new car. Round here the transport of choice for the old-money landowning classes would be either an old shape A6 or W124 estate with about half a million miles on it, and a ratty 'H' reg Defender full of spaniel hair.

Sir Mark Prescott, Bt. drove a 1984 Toyota Tercel 4wd estate around Newmarket until a couple of years ago. It must have been just about the last surviving example.

Stephen Fry is whom I think of as being the quintessential English Gentleman.

With an insurmountable dignity and integrity, an imposing knowledge on just about every topic there is, a fatherly and charming way of impassing said knowledge, impeccable manners coupled with the correct etiquette for every occasion, the driest of wit, a notably eccentric sense of dress, and old-school pride in a very English way of life, whom else could represent the true English Gentleman?

You just need to ignore the fact that his chosen set of wheels is a London Black Cab.

oscar wilde said once that a true gentleman almost always has no money to his name, so it will have to be an old jag.. or a defender
which is fine by me

May be on to something. An english gentleman, in the modern sense (ie not old money etc) is to me witty, urbane, understated but quietly confident, buys quality not status symbols (Saville Row, not Hugo Boss, if you know what I mean). Sort of individual who can be comfortably described as a 'chap'.

Mr (or Miss) Burnham has a point, I think - though maybe a bit less showy than the Aero:

A trifle "sudden" for a real gentleman don't you think?

A big Range Rover with no chrome and as much wood as possible.

in the jeep I assume ??

I drive a Jag and I don't like tossers on push bikes who think they are more important than you. (So said by someone nearly ttted twice, while out running, by tossers riding on the pavement).

I agree with the Stag though.