True, but diesel vehicles — even the modern and super clean ones — still struggle to catch on here outside of the heavy duty pickup market thanks to higher prices, long-standing misconceptions, fewer filling stations and a general preference for gasoline. That's a shame, because if there was ever a diesel that…

"Sexism, free with the purchase of ANY Dartz auto"

"Please sir! Not my pension!"

High Net Worth Individuals like buttons. Lots of buttons to push.

Sorry, but, this is growing on me. It's going to age well with the massive simple lines and shapes. Is it 1930 or 2015?

Designed by VOLVO in Gothenburg

"We completely re-engineered the window raise/lower switch. We studied over 1400 hours of close-up footage of fingers depressing the switches, and have developed a new dichromium-steel spring mechanism to deliver the finest window raising or lowering experience you've ever had."

"Come see our beautiful....err... lakes of orange!?"

nicely baited on the K&N front. nicely done sir....

Camera-based city braking system?

Buick/Lexus/Nissan lovechild ???

Exactly. What is this going after? Aston? Porsche? Audi? Lamborghini? I mean. They own 3 of it's sorta-competitors.

I would murder some striking workers to have this interior...

Neutral: Are You Buying Ford's Performance Message?

The number of times i've been smoked out from a rusted/failed emissions Sentra in the daily commute makes me want something like this. Just up through like 2000 or something. That would keep a large number of cars on the road, cars with more modern safety equipment, and clear out the muck.

I'm sure they looked at the Euro emissions 1-5 chart on wikipedia...but yeah, why 2011? Just fleet average fuel economy, or stimulating Citroen sales?

Every CFO on the planet will now laugh at my naiveté, but would it really be impossible for a company like BMW to make 500,000 cars a year, cars it wanted to produce and which squared with the brand image it has carefully cultivated for decades, and still make good money? I can't see why it would be impossible.

Honestly why aren't dealers just specing this more often. It is so hard to find a used Volvo/Subaru with this option and it's only like $1000. Cheap bastards.

Umm,

"How do I work this iSled knob?!?!" "Oh! Wrong knob, bob."