Oddly enough, my car got hit while parked, and sustained some front-end damage that required replacement of the now-scuffed and slightly cracked front bumper. Since I caught the culprit with my dash-camera, I reported it to my insurance so that they could subrogate her insurance in turn, and had the car fixed by a…

Okay, so I did some reading last night on legal doctrine for automobile accidents, and I think I owe you an apology.

You can be as attentive, aware, and in control of your vehicle as you want, but that won’t stop you from being rear-ended at a stop-light. The claim that the person in front should have somehow been able to evade simply brands you as an idiot.

The inline 6 cylinder was ford’s engine.

Did they take action to avoid being hit or were they minding their own business by staring straight ahead oblivious to their surroundings? One action is proper driving, the other is just another oblivious moron.

And the pretentiousness continues.

I’m not beating around the bush, you’re adding superficial requirements to whether something could be considered ‘unavoidable’ or not. If the party that is driving properly can’t reasonably take action to avoid an accident from the party that is not, then from their perspective the accident was unavoidable.

The way it was explained to me is quattro is the AWD drivetrain, Quattro is the vehicle.

Tell me, both parties driving properly, what is an unavoidable accident?

It doesn’t take two parties driving inappropriately to cause an accident, only one (or sometimes none).

If your argument is that there’s no such thing as an unavoidable accident, then you’re nothing more than a pretentious idiot. There’s a reason cars have seatbelts, airbags, and crumple zones, and it’s not to enable people to drive like maniacs. It’s because shit happens, and it’s not always the fault of the person it…

what I meant is that you are buying a great GT car as it sits. You could go hooning at an SCCA event one day and drive it to work the next morning.

Try again. I’ll go slower this time so you can follow along:

battle hard race car that you could buy from a dealer

That is weird. Per your owners manual, it should behave exactly the same way mine does. Maybe it has something to do with the Polestar upgrade.

I can’t speak for the V70 and V50, but your ‘12 XC70 should theoretically operate the same way my ‘13 does. I can’t think of a reason it would work for me, and not for you.

If you move the gear selector over into the Geartronic section, but don’t actually use it to select a gear (instead of ‘D’, the gear icon on your dashboard displays an ‘S’), it makes the throttle more responsive and keeps the engine at a higher rpm. Probably not great for gas mileage, but perfect for passing or…

I say this knowing few people prefer a manual transmission over an automatic.

Nope, that’s not the Sport mode I meant. Though I think it’s supposed to say “move the gear selector to the left”.