What a great question, and some brilliant answers already.
Its a tough one, but what want you want is a CO-OP car with input from different manufacturers.
Honda, they can do the reliability. Toyota can lend a hand too.
Ford and Lotus can sort the handling. It's got to corner!
The Germans pre 1990 can do the build quality, such as the W123 referrenced.
Citroen and Peugeot can do the ride comfort 1970's style, comfy
Styling, hmmm, Accord Aerodeck for my money was a fine looking car. No, we'll leave it to Robert Opron and Flaminio Bertoni.
Value, that has to be Dacia's department!
British, we can do leather and wood, Rover P5 esq.
All of that said, Mk1 Skoda Octi Estate, 1.9 TDi, 130bhp 5sp, Silver, Sunroof, L+K trim with black leather. Xenon upgrade and I'm sending it off for a bit more sound proofing and a USB socket.
Oh, and some all season tyres, but I'm not too fussed about the EU label ratings