New order

You are a UK magazine giving your assessment of cars that will be on UK roads, in a climate which is cold and slippery for many months of the year. Do you not read what you write?

Comments written relating to the BMW M2 CS: ‘It’s a slippery surface not playing into the hands of the M2.’ ‘I can see Jethro is struggling to keep up in the M2.’ ‘The engine gives more than the tyres can handle.’ ‘You need to be ready to catch the tail.’ ‘Cold tyres on the BMW make it feel very nervous.’

All your words. Does that sound like a Car of the Year? I don’t think so!

The CS also doesn’t look like a £75,000 car, just a tarted up M2.

Now for the Cayman GTS 4.0. Its naturally aspirated (your favourite) flat-six is ‘rich and mellifluous’. ‘The damping has a masterful capacity to shine.’ ‘It’s so capable and so polished.’ ‘The quality of this GTS is staggering.’ It seems the only small flaw is that the gearing of the ‘excellent manual gearbox’ is a bit too long.

Therefore order it with PDK: faultless, fast gearshifts at your fingertips, perfect on road or track.

Oh, but that omits the good ‘old’ interaction you must have in your cars. Like winding down the window with a rotating handle so you can put your arm out to indicate you are going to turn. Or that stick to pull on for a parking brake. Or going around to each door to lock it. Or maybe a handle on the front to crank the engine. Good old interaction between man and machine!

The Mclaren should have won, and the BMW M2 should have been below the GTS, no question. Alan Ogden