If not, that abomination of a city hatch has electric sliding doors, and they're a really bad idea.

Partly because of the additional weight, power drain, mechanical complexity, and all the other stuff.

But also because French electricals are not 100% reliable, meaning that at best they are impossible to open on a hill without wanting to slide shut.

At worst, they don't open at all.

That's why this stuff tends not to catch on.

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It's hard for anything to be distinctive these days, but the doors would be a step in the right direction.

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Quiet, please, as Mr. Jones will now perform a dramatic reading from the Volvo booth in the famed Cobo Hall:

::James Earl Jones enters from stage left, cruising quietly behind the wheel of the Concept S60, smooth, baritone voice falling upon a hushed audience::

"Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
Because their words had forked no lightning they
Do not go gentle into that good night.

Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright
Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight,
And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way,
Do not go gentle into that good night.

Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight
Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

And you, my father, there on that sad height,
Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray.
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light."

::Jones does a burnout, exits stage right::

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"I don't want something that's sleek and sexy. Why can't they make it less attractive and boxier? Here, build it out of cardboard with cast-iron I-beams in a square around the driver to keep me safe. Use more string. What? A sumptuous, sultry leather-wrapped luxury-car interior? No! I want the old hard-plastic see-through headrests and icy-cold pseudovinyl seats! Curves? On a car? How dare they! Volvo doesn't believe in making things attractive. Make it box-shaped, I'd buy it then!"

You would not, stop bullshitting. If you would, you would own... well, you'd be SuzanneD with her awesome car collection.

If they made it boxy and square you'd be mocking them for being as aesthetically advanced as Lada. What's the usual commentary on a Hummer or Land Rover? "Oh look, two boxes. Advanced design guys."

It's sexy, it's swedish, and it's all about the curves and leather. If it had blonde hair I'd propose marriage.

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