At this particular moment, the Volvo V60 Cross Country in which I am crossing some Suffolk countryside is shod with slick tyres. Brown ones. Yet we have just powered up a steep, muddy hill with great gusto, enough to cause the front wheels to leave the ground as the crest falls away beneath us. It must be the magic tyre compound, formed of the earth of eastern England, bonding with the terra firma beneath.

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