When they are using Tesla batteries, the battery tech is up to date. The issue is lack of space for those batteries. These cars were never designed with electric drive in mind.

They have special kits. Dropping the old drive train, exhaust and fuel tank by an experienced team is what, 2-3 hours? Mounting the pre-prepared electric kit shouldn’t take much longer.

Wanting to own/drive old cars and hating new tech are two different things though. I personally prefer the way older cars drive(/look/feel/smell/...), but I also like some of the new tech. A decent sound system with good phone connectivity and navigation, radar cruise, just to name some. You still won't see me buying…

True, but there are huge diffences between EU members. In the UK you can register a motorized sofa, on the other side of the Channel you’ll struggle to have post-facelift OEM wheels approved for your pre-facelift identical model car (in some countries).

Sure, but Spain is not Germany. I imagine there are a lot of bureaucratic hurdles. When you just moved from the UK to Spain it’s probably difficult to figure these things out.

They simply need a fixed regulated microphone location, so every test is performed uniformly.

Thank you.

All GM models *and GM tech* that Vauxhall and Opel offeree has been or will soon be phased out in favor of PSA stuff. PSA tech tends to be on par or better, so why keep using tech you need to pay royalties for?

Whenever I’m indoors and I hear a vehicle drive by, it’s an AMG/M/RS. Or a motorcycle. Never a diesel engine ehaust, usually not a truck.

Agreed. Volvo is not stupid, they have tested this car and its settings with target demographic. If that target demographic showed intense levels of irritation due to default settings, Volvo would change the default settings. Otherwise a test-drive would hardly ever result in a sale.

And then don’t pass inspection because too loud. Nah, won’t work.

Exhausts can still produce glorious (or horrible) sounds, they just need to stay within a certain decibel limit.

Overly loud aftermarket exhausts would not pass inspection in Europe though.

In Europe? No. The noise pollution is coming from dipshits in M2s or (even worse) family blobs like the RS/AMG/M versions of crossovers. 99% of the time an overly loud car is gasoline powered.

Exactly! The time of fart cannons on old Hondas and VWs is long behind us. The loudest cars I hear are assholes in their recent new-money AMG/M/RS douchemobiles, with their artificial popping and banging exhausts while accelerating for one second on city streets. Frequently cars wrapped in a matte color.

100k ist nothing though. Especially on a Toyota. They should last 300+k miles, what else is the point of a Toyota?

But they do. The lack of storage space here is caused by the sloping roof. How often do you stack stuff up to the roof? I know I hardly ever so so, so to me length X width is more important than the length X width X height metric.

Maybe they disabled these systems, or lowered the sensitivity?

I was rather surprised by this review as well. I get that these systems can be highly annoying, but when you can switch them off, just do so. Why be a masochist? Make a note in the review that certain settings are horrible to live with and move on to the stuff that counts.

Nah. I’ve seen many of these TRD BXs with 400+k km on them. Those engines last an eternity with very basic maintenance. They also don’t have the rust issues that Toyotas of similar vintage have, those Toyotas were usually junked (or exported to Africa) at a relatively young age due to those issues.