Once again, thanks for your great 'column' in the Saturday's Motoring Section. I appreciate all your comments, and especially those on big tyres and small wheels giving a better ride, and liked your yesterday's reference to footballer's wives and rap stars. The poor ride of modern cars is a real bugbear for me. Motoring journalists - not you - drive road cars around smooth circuits demanding firmer suspension, whilst our roads get rougher, and the car buyers suffer - especially some cars that have a downright atrocious low speed ride in town. I liked Erin Baker's statement on the Ampera's review (page M13), "...the added bonus is the Ampera's wonderfully supple, smooth ride." Hooray! But, perhaps like Erin, we don't think we have "the inclination to spend £30,000" on this car, just to get its wonderful ride.