Bébé à bord: 1000-mile road trip with V6 Audi SQ5 – and a baby

Our fly-splattered Audi SQ5 is back in the UK after a fortnight in France, where it faced an unusual challenge. It turns out babies of a certain age shouldn’t be in a car seat for more than two hours – a notion my wife doesn’t consider up for debate.

I won’t bore you with specifics, but our desired itinerary required the car to be rapid enough to cover the necessary ground in short stints yet serene enough not to ruin the sleep of an infant with a backside more synaptically sensitive than Jim Clark’s.