I have absolutely no idea what you are talking about. If anyone didn’t see something obvious coming, it was the youth in the GIF. Because obviously nothing nice is going to happen if you try to hit a cop with a stick, even if they don’t have their gun drawn.

I have no idea what an American would regard as “the American way” in this scenario. I would not risk attacking a cop who has his gun drawn in my own country, though.

If what the protesters have been doing for months now is your idea of “peaceful” and “restrained”, I take it you are posting from 1980s Beirut.

If what has been going on in Hongkong for weeks, nay months is your idea of “peaceful” and “restrained” protests, you probably live in 1980s Beirut.

Of course. Police charge you --> you get one free hit on the nearest cop’s gun arm. The police were totally not playing fair.

I hear you. I was in the market for a V70 this spring. After trying the backseat, I didn’t even test-drive it.

When did book-Bond drive a blower Bentley? I only remember him driving a Continental he bought cheap after “some rich fool had married it to a tree”.

When our kid was born, we had a 3-door Golf Mk III. I found it preferable to a 5-door: You could comfortably hunker on the folded backrest of the frontseat while strapping in the kid in the back. A 5-door with non-folding front seats and smaller front doors would have forced me to fiddle with the straps while leaning…

Came here to post this, found it done.

blah, blah, blah, blah, blah (actually 13 lines of copy), “there is one case where trading is desirable”, “waitforitblahblahblahblah”, a lot more copy, “trade if there is something in it for you”. That’s some serious lifehacking right there.

“Munich”?

Sorry, but that car just doesn’t do anything for me. Looks like Land Rover is about to take the Audi approach to styling, where all models look more or less identical without any reference for size.

I don’t need an SUV, which is why I don’t want one. Objectively needing one would be prerequisite to me wanting one of those things.

I think the center console needs more vents to really convey the impression the designers were going for.

“Adequate to keep up with traffic.” In a 260 hp car. Traffic in the U.S. surely must have changed a lot since my last visit there.

Same here. The C2 looks brutal, but in an elegant way. The C3 looks brutal, period. Vulgar, even.

As someone who is seriously into carving (as in “carving a snowboard”) I deeply hate things named “carver” although they don’t leave a groove.

Just picked up our almost-new Insignia this weekend. The whole family loves it, with me loving the LED lights, HUD and the gorgeous seats most of all. I’ll be curious to see how the features hold up over time.

I find the dog hair lets go of the actual cloth seats in my Mazda quite easily. But it is impossible to get out of the carpeting on the floor and in the trunk. Has anyone ever managed to clean one of those after a dog has spent any time on it?

Just pulled the trigger on an Opel Insignia (two years old, 13000 miles, Diesel, manual, FWD). It was the test drive that did it, and the fact that the rear seats feel far more roomy than in the XC70 that was originally the car we thought we wanted.