It didn't happen here that I know of, but I am less than excited about the quality of service from the local Volvo dealer. When I had the badges replaced under warranty on the front of the car, they broke the grill and tried to patch it with some tar to hold the new badge on and the cross bar. They ended up giving…

You wouldn't happen to work in the Chicago area by chance?

I settled for C30 R-Design. I drove aV70R a few months ago and it was a glorious car. All the power you need in a hauler, seats you don't want to get out of, and that blue leather! Too bad it was topping 140k miles :(

THERE ARE NO MORE LINES TO WRITE YOU IN ON THE BALLOT, I HAVE FILLED THEM ALL.

Preach it! But seriously, 90% of the car-buying public has tastes I will never understand. I would be the worst car dealer ever because I wouldn't be able to comprehend what style and options people are actually looking for. Their tastes would make as much sense to me as a conversation does to The Stig.

You have my vote. You can be the leader of the emerging Jalop political party and negotiate all the government regulations so we can get the awesome lighting technology that's over in Europe and carmakers will be encouraged to build more diesel manual wagons.

I can only imagine that people who buy these live on the wrong end of the street, the end where the Mitsu dealer is the first one you come across. They stop there first, the dealer says "this car has as many wheels as it does doors", keys are exchanged for 84 month loans, and another customer is satisfied without…

This is sad, because this is probably the most wagon-like non-hatchback that any US carmakers offer since the Magnum went to the great parking lot in the sky. If they can get it to lose some weight and bump those MPGs up it would be an easier sell.

Stockholm syndrome.

As an owner of a C30 R-Design, it may not be the best handling car, the car with the best clutch pedal feel (or any clutch pedal feel for that matter), or the cheapest hot hatch, but it is a good car. It does not make you feel like you bought an expensive cheap car (Ford) and it avoids the boy-racer (GTI) stigma…

I'm shocked it has taken this long honestly. You'd think for all those folks that can afford a LWB Rolls or Bentley, they would have demanded a car with more a long time ago. I think the SUV-as-roadcar makes a lot more sense when you compare it to an executive sedan and appoint it appropriately.

The kids wouldn't take any warm bottles of Gatorade from us, even if it was orange or red, if it was warm they poured it out. I guess too many bottles if "yellow Gatorade" ruined it for them

(insert photoshop of HYBRID logo from the Tahoe pasted onto a stingray)

The 2014 Corolla will allow you to justify your thriftiness to your dull coworkers.

But what about the Cayman that gets high 20s MPGs? Also, the halo cars from the halo brands all utilize some form of hybrid tech. Can't a gentleman be earth friendly whilst leaving smoky 11s all around?

This fellow has bought an OEM set of LED tails for the GTI, and they are always marketed as "European OEM" on the tuning shop webpages. When the mk6 GTI was still fresh in the states, even the marketing pictures on their website had these versions of the lights. I kept trying to figure out why I didn't like the GTI…

What I've read is that the SL55 was the common variant, with only a handful of either the SL60, SL70, and SL73s being made. Also, AMG wasn't an official model at that point, more like BRABUS as an aftermarket tuner.

This. They are rare enough that it is even difficult to find information about them on the internet...THE INTERNET!!!!

I am trying to upload a picture but it is not working. Maybe it is just the GTI that got the LED lamps, but we didn't even have that as an option in the colonies.