STOW-ON-THE-WOLD, GLOUCESTERSHIRE

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

A fun, but fragile French gem

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

The classics you love, drive and restore

I WAS PERHAPS about nine or ten years old and we had spent the day at Frensham Pond in Surrey with our neighbours, my father’s Vauxhall 14 following our neighbour’s Standard Vanguard (in two-tone blue