Good gravy! Hunting Scotland’s best festive food in the epic M3

We go in search of some Christmas dinner staples with the help of a BMW M3 CS Touring

While Autocar’s road testers exchange exotic key fobs over Christmas lunch at some richly upholstered ale house at the crowded end of Britain, there’s no such indulgence for those of us in Scotland.
Here, the mountain must visit Muhammad, because photographer Max Edleston and I have been tasked with sourcing every ingredient of our own, three-course Christmas feast – plus refreshments – direct from its maker north of the border. We have two days to do this, but the where and the wheels are down to us.
Accordingly, I’ve lined up visits to some of Scotland’s finest producers of festive fayre. But what to drive? Following earnest discussion, we can’t really be stowing our turkey in a Morgan Super 3’s side-mounted luggage bungees: we need space.
On this schedule, a turn of pace would be helpful, too, but also the chops to handle testing Scottish conditions: the Met Office has issued various shades of w