Here is Ingo's Figaro Story from Cologne:-

The very first time I saw a Figaro in front of the house of my parents in Cologne around two years ago. I just loved the unique design and checked immediately the net and found the history of the car. Looking further on ebay I found some Figaros and contacted the owners in Germany who told me about the fun and great reliability of the car. The reliability of the young but looking old Figaro is also a strong argument for me not to buy a "real old classic car" where a successful drive to the destination is more a lottery. Then I decided to buy an Emerald Green one just two month ago with the production number 721. My Figaro was never registered in Cologne and came from England. The seller told me he already imported some Figaros (and other cars) from Japan and the UK.The reaction of people on the street is better that driving a Porsche, Ferrari or other "boring cars". Nearly everybody is smiling when seeing my car on the road and when going to the gas station people ask me questions ;-) about it.On my very first ride in Cologne a rare Duisenberg was standing beside me and the driver and his wife said "Guten Morgen" to me and of course my car!! Maybe also my chosen number plate even confuses the crowd a bit more: K-OI-58 - KOI (like the Japanese fish) and 58 for the possible production year 1958. My first plan to register it as K-GB-1958 was not working due to the size of the plate. I would say the Figaro has the most similarity with the German Prinz NSU from 1958 but most of the Germans think the Figaro is a British Car with the steering wheel on the right side.My neighbours noticed my new old car in our car park and wanted to know everything about... it's seems that they will also buy one very soon and selling their old boring Mercedes 300!!! I was always a car enthusiast and I always prefer cars not everybody drives. I even worked for MG-Rover Germany as volume planer and head of marketing until the sorrowful end of MG-Rover. My other car is currently just a Fiat Stilo which is also not often seen in Germany. During my MG-Rover time I had nearly every 6 weeks another great car: MG-F, MG-TF and also introduced the MG-ZR, ZS and ZT models into the German market. I just bought one of you stickers on ebay ... Maybe I even get the chance from my work to drive to Warwickshire next to Longbridge in 2010... also to see a friend from MG-Rover who will start at the beginning of next year working for the headquarter of Land Rover in Gaydon.Today I will fly to London to visit another ex-colleague of MG-Rover and to watch Figaros driving on the "right side".With the very best regards from the Carnival town no.1Ingo