This is why you should always keep your seat belt on. I don’t even notice it, and in the off, off, off chance this happens, you’ll be real thankful you left it on.

It’s also very easy to take a quick glance in the rear-view before winging your door open into space potentially occupied by a moving vehicle.

What was the... plan here? He was really good at defrauding people, but... eventually someone would be pissed the van didn’t show up? I guess he waited too long to disappear to Mexico. But surely doing this enough times would get the police involved, and just sitting around the office at your used car dealership and…

I’m shocked! Shocked!

Yeah, the Volvos are the last of a dying breed - I assume because wagons are much more popular in Europe they will continue making them available here as well. But, hard to say. Volvo is something I’d have to buy CPO to not worry about, which definitely increases the cost.... 

Yeah, I don’t buy the CAFE argument about wagons but don’t know enough to actually have a platform to argue it. Far as I can see, manufacturers don’t make wagons because people don’t buy them. And they can dress up some some crossover with a bunch of cladding and orange accessories and sell it as an overland addition…

Same boat, except I’m not buying another Subaru because I’m sick of oil consumption issues in my Forester and I worry deeply about anything with a CVT. 

Yeah, my next vehicle will either be a big Volvo wagon or a minivan. I love minivans, I think they are probably the most versatile vehicle possible. My only issue with them is that I’m kind of back-country upstate NY, and we can get a lot of snow. All the minivans, even the AWD ones, have such low ground clearance…

I suppose I meant Crossoverification, which really seemed to kill off any idea of a wagon if you could turn that wagon into a vaguely higher crossover. That probably started earlier too, more like 2015 when the TourX came out. I wish I agreed with you that it was peaking, but I don’t think that is true. I think for…

It’s disappointing they stopped making these. I’m loathe to buy one now, since the “newest” model is a 2018 and that’s a five-year old off warranty German car. But I’m still periodically tempted and this makes it even more tempting... It’s not surprising they didn’t sell well, it being the real end of an era and the…

Yeah, no way I’d be in this thing without a full-face motorcycle helmet. 

That roll bar looks like it would do a fantastic job of saving everything from the shoulders down. 

Flew out of Boston a few weeks ago. The TSA gentleman screamed at me for taking my shoes off after screaming at the person in front of me for not taking their shoes off and then minutes later told someone further back in the line to leave their shoes on.

While I guess I would agree that between the British and the Luftwaffe (and that is what we are talking about here, so, fair enough) there was a deep level of respect, viewing themselves as knights of the air - it definitely did not extend to the rest of the allied forces. After reading some memoirs of Luftwaffe…

I guess the German’s enjoyed sufficient air and naval superiority to make these things worth it. But... they just come off as very appealing targets for anyone not a Nazi..

Panel gaps that Elon himself could be proud of.

Was this at some stupid “street takeover.” Because if so, any shred of sympathy I had for anyone involved went flying out the window like they did.

It definitely is. I like it far more than Top Gun. 

That is a hilarious height difference. 

I had the same questions about rear facing, and the logic is that rear-ended collisions typically happen at far lower speeds, so while that type of accident is more common it’s less serious than front impacts, which typically happen at higher speeds (other than the person hitting the other person who got rear-ended…