Ok - “destination fee” - I knew it had an official term. Thanks for figuring that one out :)

You don’t live in Utah do you? Here, drivers dawdle along at 15mph in 40mph zones. It’s about the average speed the minivans get to when the drivers take their foot off the brake and the transmission catches up with the engine idle speed. That’s the ‘driving at low speed’ part. The acceleration part would come during…

Working/living in the US. This was July 2018. Shipped to Utah. It was just a line-item in the overall price breakdown. So it wasn’t “added on” per se - but in the line-by-line of the car build/delivery sheet, it was totaled into the final price. You say you didn’t pay anything to have it shipped but was that because…

e’s are good ....

It was $995 to get it to Utah from Gothenburg. Even so the overall cost was so much less than I would have paid here that it was still a complete no-brainer.

The Volvo program is pretty comprehensive. Your US dealer becomes the facilitator and generally speaking, the out-the-door cost is LESS to do this than it is to buy an off-the-lot US model (that no doubt would be in one of the boring shades of business suit grey). Volvo covered the flights on SAS from the east coast…

I’ll defer to you as a resident. My annual visits haven’t shown a lot of good roads but maybe it’s the areas I’m in. Around Ealing and Chiswick I swear you could swim in some of the potholes they’re so deep :)

Valid. Duly noted.

Worth noting : London introduced congestion charging in 2003. Started at £5 a day and has gone up at double the rate of inflation ever since. It’s now £11.50per day per car - about $15. In 17 years traffic has only dropped 10% from the 2003 baseline. The roads are still in complete disrepair. Only about 20% of the…

Erm? You’ve not been in an electric car have you? Even as basic as a Nissan Leaf? Instant linear acceleration from zero? Hello? McFly?

Two words : “battery recycling”.

Ah. So we have two teams that will now just constantly be apologising? That does make me feel a bit better.

Honest answer: I don’t mind admitting this is more to do with what I fear is the creeping Americanisation of F1. Liberty Media are the owners now, and with Stroll owning two teams and Gene Haas owning one, I worry about a slow-burning American take-over, which further makes me worried that the whole thing could end…

So Lawrence Stroll will then be the controlling interest in two teams? Not a huge fan of that idea.

I think you can cast some of the blame on the NHTSA and their requirement to not have brake and turn signals on movable bodywork - ie. the tailgate. It sort of forces designers to try to cram everything on to the fixed bodywork which results in abominations like the rear end of the Hyundai Kona.

Mmmmm. Does my deposit go on a Rivian, a Polestar2 or an XC40? All very different vehicles, but all three are a lot more interesting to me than anything Tesla manufactures. (that’s a long story - TL:DR - I owned a 1st gen Tesla Model S and I’d never touch their brand again because of it)

Welcome to Utah folks. There’s been a time change so please remember to set your watches back 2,000 years.

That last paragraph though: “We’re making this change to empower players around the world with more choice” - by giving them less choice? Nice.

Personally, I’d love the ability to drive or ride without ever having to check tire pressures again. Never having to worry about a change in season affecting my pressure. Never needing to worry about a leak from road debris. All of this sounds incredible. Sign me the hell up!

When you delete your account, it doesn’t magically vanish from data centers and backups. It just makes it inaccessible to you. The data still exists, spread across multiple data centers, and years of backups, for FB to sell and scrape as they see fit. That includes the cold-storage backups. At best, deleting your…