I don’t understand why you can buy a GTI with leather. I mean, come on! It’s like buying an ‘88 Prelude with fixed headlights! Or an ‘01 Jetta 1.8T with a functional water pump (ask me how I know!)! ;-)

Your comment made me think, and you’re right: you could get the GTI with a sunroof in the US, but it had to be the top-level trim—with leather seats instead of plaid. And who wants leather instead of plaid?!

I do find it strange that they 86ed the sunroof on the GTI. I had a 2008 with a sunroof, but by the time I went back for another in 2016, they were no longer available.

It’s insane everywhere. I get two or three emails a week from my local Volvo dealer trying to buy this car—in fact, when I was in for the Polestar upgrade in December, the manager came to talk to me directly to try to get me to sell.

(I just checked CarMax: they have one 2018 V90 XC listed for sale in the entire USA.…

That’s actually why I recently bought the GTI off lease a year early: I realized that, if I wanted to buy that exact same car today (same age, same condition, same mileage), I’d be paying about $4,000 more than I would’ve paid to buy it new in 2019. We know that cars depreciate like mad…but, for once in my life, I…

I hear you on that, but I’d also note that the Volvo is approximately the size of Canada, and that would be A LOT of cornflower blue.

I’m still blown away that, when I went to my local Volvo dealership to look, it was clear that nobody wanted this car. They ended up giving me $2,000 more for my 2015 Allroad in trade than Audi was prepared to give me and $13,000 (!!!!) in factory and dealer incentives…so I ended up driving it off the lot, brand new,…

I’m lucky enough to have two that I absolutely love: a 2019 GTI Rabbit Edition (10K, 6-speed manual) that I bought off lease a few weeks ago and a Polestar-engineered 2018 V90 XC (which just ticked over to 25K). I’ll add an electric vehicle to the fleet when my workplace adds chargers (2024?), but I’m going to hold on…

I bought a 2018 Volvo V90 this year. It’s my first car to have semi-autonomous driving functions.

My God, they all remind me of this.

I’m a 39-year-old white male who loves Britpop and nineties R&B in equal measure, and I cannot wait to see Toni Braxton, SWV, and Babyface on their upcoming tour.

Yeah. This piece strikes me as being way too snarky for its own good.

I live in CT and have a 2014 Allroad. I’ve seen more on the road recently—though that damn Q5 seems to have cornered the market.

It is. We used to have several “don’t talk to strangers” books in the house, partly because it was the mid-eighties and partly because they were responding to an actual, real threat.

I’d have to ask. I know that Connecticut didn’t pass official anti-stalking laws until the mid-nineties at least.

I’m so sorry to hear that, but I am so grateful to your family for their advocacy.

I don’t want to out myself on this forum, but my late father, a relatively well-known author, had a stalker back in the 1980s and early 1990s. My school had a photograph of her in the office; when I was in second grade, she had arrived at school and tried to take me home. Once, when my mom and I were visiting my…

I don’t know if anyone here saw it, but Hush is absolutely, positively worth a watch.

I’d add to that that the new Queer Eye reboot on Netflix (which includes some nifty home makeovers) is both edgier and more enjoyable than the original.

Apparently, Mederma makes a good anti-scar cream that’s supposed to work very well. (That said, I recently bought their stretch-mark cream and had to return it—the scent, though herbal and pleasant, was far too strong for me.)