But in the flesh it looks awkward: its bonnet and vast sweptback windscreen too big for its body, like one of those egg-headed dogs Princess Anne is so fond of.
And as I head to my favourite beach, on my beautiful island home to write this article, a convoy of patriotic tourists flying Australian flags bigger then their windscreens, are bogged in the soft sand of Stradbroke Island.
"You should get tested," he said, and I stared hard through the windscreen at the big grey parking lot and said: "Yes, Dad, I know".
It was a stylish, if unexpected design: a scientifically streamlined utility vehicle with an air-cooled engine hidden under the floor at the back, and with the driver − perched over the front wheels and with nothing in front of the windscreen − holding a big, bus-style steering wheel.
The windscreen itself is one of the biggest fitted to any car on the road.
Look for a large, transparent plastic tank containing blue windscreen washer fluid.
On duty since 5am, he had watched one of the biggest public order events in his career unfold through his windscreen.
He drove half an hour, the windscreen wipers sticking and dislodging and sticking again, to the nearest big town, where he knew he could buy Glenfiddich.
Believed to be the biggest euro-grossing bear of all time, Knut has inspired everything from cuddly toys and windscreen cleaners to films and books, has become a symbol for the campaign against global warming and has even appeared on the front of Vanity Fair.
We had a big storm in New Zealand with 12 metre waves and we had five metres of water on top of the windscreen here.
