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Ollie Gheerbrant suggests that dogs suffer from EV acoustics (12 November). My 10-year-old Labrador would disagree, riding calmly and quietly in the back of my Volkswagen ID 4 with no ill effects even

Having spurned a chance of getting my name down for the new BMW M2 CS, on reading your first drive (22 October) it looks like I might have made a bad decision. You so rarely award five-star ratings. M

M3 CS OVERKILL + MG TODAY + IAN FRASER

£254,200 OTR/£282,000 as tested/£5,077 pcm WHY IT’S HERE: What has a hybrid makeover – and Mulliner buffing – added to the world’s best grand tourer? DRIVER: Ollie Kew IT’S 5AM, AND YOU JOIN ME AT hom

‘BUSY’ DOESN’T BEGIN TO COVER IT. DURING ITS seven months with us it sometimes felt as if our M5 Touring’s wheels never stopped turning. It went to Spa and to the Le Mans 24 Hours, it appeared in a dr

Christmas is a time of comforting traditions, isn’t it? In our household, Christmas begins in early December with a showing of The Muppet Christmas Carol while we wrestle the Christmas tree into place