Volvos explained

The message <hf4Wg.6440$>

No Volvo driver would ever be so rude as to top post in all caps and
suggest using Google groups.

 

i was responding in kind to some idiot who chose to write in all caps.

 

IT BEING......?????

 

PRECISELY!!!!

See the correct location for the definition.

"it" being 'top posting' - the subject of this subthread.

When people start top posting in a bottom posting group, contrary to the
RFCs, group and Usenet conventions, it gets difficult to follow the flow of
the threads. Which is why you didn't know what 'it' was.

If you want to top-post, go and play in the noobie top posting microsoft.*.*
groups.

 

Not just express. My employer, a multinational who appears to think
Bill Gates is the pope and all known rock starts rolled into one, makes
us use big grown up outlook, and EVERYONE in the organisation top
posts, 'cos if you don't it puts your name in lots of coloured brackets
all over the place. I loathe top posting, and I loate Outlook even
more. And every PDA manufacturer seems to think you want to
synchronise with it. I loate that too.

Bill Gates is the Antichrist, you know.

 

Whereas I was responding to some idiot who can't spell and doesn't
know how to trim posts.

 

Whatever the backseat-boink factor is, my 240 turbo is the best car to
speed in.

Besides the fact that most self-respecting highway patrol officers
won't even bother to clock you in a volvo, it is just too easy to get
someone else to go faster than you while driving on the freeway.

All of this is totally dependent on the fact that 95% of volvo drivers
do the speed limit. Consequently, most of the driving population is
trained to pass volvos whenever they see one. Even if you pass
someone, they will instantly think "I need to speed up if that volvo is
going by me" and you can usually get a couple of decoys to fend off the
radar and always drive ahead of you no matter what speed you want to
go.

This theory also holds for the 2.0L FI volkswagen busses from the late
70's.

 

I had a "gentleman caller" who drove a Volvo. I point out that I
never felt inclined to bonk in it. But it was a very comfortable
vehicle from the passenger point of view.

 

It's always seemed a strange thing to want to do in cars - sleeping in
cars is also a strange thing to want to do and generally not a good way
to get a restful night.

 

It is often far better than the alternatives. Think "6,000 mile road
trip, $200 to your name."

 

I assume you left out the 'of a' by accident'.

If you have a car and need to travel six thousand miles but only have a
small sum of money, one option would be to sell the car and travel in
comfort on a train. The other would be to spend the money on a tent,
which would be much more comfortable. If the weather is clement, a
sleeping bag outside would be nicer, even without the tent.

 

Peter H.M.Brooks () gurgled happily, sounding much like
they were saying :

Sod that.
www.easyjet.com

 

OH YES I WOULD!!! I OWN A 1998 V40 2.0i & IT'S KEWL!!!
GOOGLE ROCKS 2 M8

 

Roger Hunt () gurgled happily, sounding much like they
were saying :

A V40's a Mitsubishi built by the Dutch, so it doesn't count as a Volvo.

<thinks>
That's probably a good thing, though.

 

And I suspect the alarm system was by Lucas, the way it can behave.

I must buy a hat to wear in the car ...

 

In message <[email protected]>,

How about Focus/Mazda3 based ones? SWMBO got a brand new V50 2.0 as a
courtesy car yesterday when her MX5 went in for a service. She hated it.
I didn't drive it, but from the passenger seat it felt slow, and
considering how much body roll there was (and how stodgy she said it
felt) it didn't ride particularly well. Bit of a poor show to start off
with a Focus chassis and end up with something with both poor ride and
handling.

 

Sounds like my experience of the C-Max, which is also new-Focus based.

 

What else would you expect going from a sporty roadster to a station
wagon -- any station wagon?

Rick

 

I expected it to be dog-slow and boring to drive. I didn't expect the
ride to be so poor. Not that all estate cars are necessarily so
(consider BMW and Subaru), but Volvo have their market to play to. I
expected it to be dull, well made and comfortable. It actually only
managed one out of three.

 

sounds quite and achievement - the focus is reckoned to be among the better
handling things in its class...