I went with the landslide vote here, but to me it's a tougher call. It's enough money (and sweet Swedish weirdness) that you'd care if something bad happened to it. But it would be just wrong not to use it for its intended purpose, which entails the risk of something bad happening to it.

They didn't cycle through colors as quickly back then, did they? My brother had a Volare in the same color.

Pretty isn't what Volvos were about at that time, but this represented a light tap with the pretty stick. It's about the best you could do with the material at hand.

Still processing the whole spare tire thing on the 92. My head hurts.

By the time I'm ready for another family hauler, I won't need one, but I'd just want to know whether the AWD version finally gets a spare tire. The run-flats were the deal-killer that pushed me into a Pilot 3 years ago. Which is a great vehicle, but still, a viable replacement for my AWD Caravan would have been nice.

Why can't somebody marry this kind of technological insanity to professionally designed sheet metal? I wouldn't kick it out of the garage, but...

Mmmm, nice. But they do already have meticulous, unnecessary labor, if they've done a proper job hiring domestic staff.

@Pibbs: I've got an Olds and a Plymouth under my belt, so I know how you feel. If I had grandchildren today, I'd already sound like an old man talking about the cars I've owned.

Again, my compliments. Such mathematical gyrations would make my head asplode, and you would probably calculate the velocity of the bits of bone and gray matter.

@torreys71004: COTD for bringing a very bright light where there's been mostly heat.

@Devryn: First, correction to my earlier post—being sober would NOT have saved these kids.

@Devryn: On a public road, in a developed area, that kind of speed is reckless, regardless of time of day. Being sober would have saved these kids, IMO. If drunkenness has any place in this argument, consider: this cop of all people should know there will be a higher proportion of drunks on the road at 2:30 a.m. That…

@Devryn: If you treat all speeding the same, your argument makes some sense. But there's a critical matter of degree here. 80 in a 65 is speeding. Triple digits in a 40, at night, with no lights or sirens, is juggling butcher knives in a packed subway car.

You have to ask, does the car represent a major advance, for the specific model or for its class? By that measure, the new Audi A8 gets the vanilla beans.

Does she also own the white one in front of it, or is that a completely improbably coincidence?

Oh. Yes. Please.

I've noticed another problem with these: Depending on the viewing angle, sometimes you can't tell whether they're lit or not. Not a problem at big intersections where there are multiple signals facing the same direction, but where there's only one...

@Fat Tire: +1. If safety were first, they wouldn't be up there.

This will still be rolling when any new vehicle in spitting distance of $12K is gone to the crusher. And it has multiples more character. Nice price for me, though honestly it's more my heart than my head talking.

On my sister's wedding day, my brother took his '70 Monte Carlo to pick up the flowers. Flipped the driver's seat forward, tucked them in the back, got in, turned the key—nothing. A rescue party went out, he flipped the seat forward, flowers were transferred to the other car. He got in the Monte, tried it…