+1

It may not be ideal, but if you can't get out to a track often, there's an art to managing plow & torque-steer during 40+mph left-handers. Plus who doesn't like the occasional front wheel burnout?

We say sketch all the time in Delray and Tallahassee. Must just be a Florida thing?

Volvo: We just discontinued every car with a connection to our heritage.

That's basically what happened to me. I sold my '03 Honda Odyssey, and bought a 2011 Volvo S40 T5. Three weeks to the day later, I was carjacked. Luckily, only the interior was destroyed before we found it.

It's... an abomination. You couldn't have paid me to be seen in one.

Indeed, indeed it does. I want a rear sway bar and possible factory dynamic springs to complete the mild-mod sleeper thing I'm working on.

Nice, I'll check that out. I'm FLolvo over there, mostly hang around the S40/V50 sub, and lurk the S70/V70 guys pretty hard (learned to drive in an S70, own an S40). That T5-R must be a great commuter, nothing more satisfying than astonished BMW drivers in the rear view.

+1 for this. Are you on swedespeed by any chance? Cause a progression thread is in order.

*slow clap*

Well played

When I was just a wee lad, a babysitter drove our '92 Volvo 240 literally THROUGH the back wall of the garage and into the house. That car went for another 10 years before we sold it, still running, with over 300,000 miles on it.

Hooray. If we're lucky, Caddy will cook up a totally awesome CTS based crossover that's lifted, has a milk-toast FWD-biased AWD option, has less interior room than the old wagon, and CAN'T BE SEEN THROUGH OR OVER FROM THE DRIVER'S SEAT OF A NORMAL CAR. For the love of all that's still good in the world, please…

How hard is it to pick, first thing in the morning?

Look, there are plenty of people IN the United States who are just as disgusted by things like this as anyone anywhere else. I beg that you focus your hate not on "america" but on the marketing driven materialism that incites frenzy like this.

I'd like to speak for the rest of us Americans and agree that the frenzy on black friday is gross and completely counter to the message of Thanksgiving. Not all of us feel the need to clobber people to death to spend money, but a depressingly large number do.

I've only ever seen them at the airport used for traffic enforcement.

Yeah, that was pretty special.

Yeah? Well my Volvo does 40-0 in 0 seconds...

I rarely laugh out loud at anything, but high five for that one.