Auto Trader has reported a 28 per cent year-on-year rise in interest in popular family cars – after nearly a third of couples said they’d been having more ‘intimate time’ during lockdown.

The survey of 2,000 people, in which 32 per cent of them admitted to being more intimate with each other, suggests a baby boom could well be on the way, as they look for family vehicles ahead of the potential new arrivals.