Unsafe at any speed my friend. You will die just sitting in it in your driveway, per Ralph Nader.

Demographics play into this. Volvos do tend to be safe cars, but they also tend to attract VERY safe drivers. Camaros ARE probably better cars to crash than some others, but they tend to attract drivers who drive like idiots too.

The 15-20 older Range Rovers you can buy for $100K. Still luxurious enough, even better off road. :-)

The top spec RR Sport did it in something like 8:14, which is pretty damned fast for a 2.25 ton SUV. Admittedly not the same vehicle as reviewed here, but not THAT different either.

The Range Rover has always been the measuring stick for this sort of off-road passenger truck. Each is the finest vehicle in its class, and has been since they debuted eons ago across numerous generations. I love that they still look basically the same, so restrained and elegant. Though I think the first two…

A Range Rover can do 90% of what an S-class can do, and 90% of what a Jeep Wrangler can do, I call that a fair trade0ff.

"Bless your/his/her heart", said with a proper Southern accent works for that sort of thing.

Jacked up ride height and extra weight do them no favors at all. But at least it isn't that terrible GM-sourced autotragic.

In high school I got hit by a car turning into a driveway across traffic (a Renault LeCar, of all things). I happened to be coasting downhill with my pedal on the road side at the top. The bumper went under my pedal, lifting the back tire of the bike off the ground, and I literally slid down the top of the bumper…

First thing that came to my mind. And the matching Eurovan. My local dealer had a couple of these as service trucks and shuttle vans.

If it's an automatic (and more so if AWD and an automatic) he did buy the wrong car - the automatics are terrible, and the AWDs handle like they are SUVs. I have other, more exciting cars in the garage, the 328! is the grocery-getter. But with a 6spd stick and RWD it is plenty entertaining. In it's oh-so smooth way,…

I think very common is stretching it a bit, but it is not unique certainly. But he really does mean it as "Porsche", as that is all he has driven for about 20 years. But happy wife, happy life, and all that.

VW recalled A2 Jettas for the same reason. But I doubt very many had been scrapped by then.

I am a consultant/field engineer in the enterprise storage world. It is not uncommon to have a disk fail or some other part fail while we are doing upgrades onsite. Quite often, vendor support will dispatch a part along with a tech. Those techs don't even work for the vendor, they are third party, and they don't know…

I wonder if BMW will ever eventually recall my car for installing the i on the badge upside-down. Yes, I drive a 328!.

Early Saab 9-5s were recalled because the airbag warning stickers on the sunvisors were too easy to peel off. I made sure that recall was NOT done on mine, I peeled those ugly things off 15 seconds after I bought it.

I'll likely be dead shortly thereafter. And with no kids, I could not possibly care less what happens at that point.

I do have a cousin who named his kid Porsche. Though to get it past the wife, it is spelled Portia. :-)

One of my coworkers was amused that I had bought a new FIAT Abarth in addition to the new BMW that I had bought two years previously. Then I pointed out that my Fiat cost about what ONE year at a state school was going to cost him for one of his kids, and that the BMW cost about what ONE year at a good private school…

The Porsche museum is well worth a visit. Sadly, I was there on a Saturday so they were not working in the workshop - you can watch through a glass wall in the museum.