You've heard these before, but here's my particular variation:
                       Driving in my 940 sedan up the New York Thruway last Saturday evening, about one mile west of the
                       Mass line, in really lousy weather (rain tending to freezing rain.) We went up the hill and I noticed the
                       rain had shifted to sleet and snow, almost at once, so I slowed down to around 45-50. We rounded a
                       bend and the car was blown sideways on glaze ice into the rumble strip at the right side, spun around
                       360 degrees on the ice, hitting both sides on the hillside wall, then ending up smashed against a tree. The
                       tree hit the B-pillar, pushing the roof line and both right side doors in.
                       My wife in the passenger seat and son in the back seat and I were fine. We felt the car begin to spin, the
                       belts locked and then the big bang. No air bags deployed (side crash).
                       Aside from utter dismay at the loss of my drop-dead gorgeous 940, I am ecstatic that the car performed
                       exactly as advertised in what could have been one very injurious crash. The reinforced B-pillar, door
                       guards, locking seat belts, and high-quality seats all did their work and nobody was hurt.
                       Volvo has made me a customer for life and I am definitely going to get another one. Anyone with a line
                       on another perfect 940 is welcome to email. Wife and sons want a new S-80.
                       Some more good news. There is a perfectly maintained red 940 that is about to go into salvage in New
                       England that has everything intact except the outside sheet metal and one wheel. The leather interior is
                       perfect, engine compartment is fine and all the major components used synthetic fluids and were
                       maintained with anal retentive perfection. I will try to find where this car goes and let folks know so that
                       the parts can be well-employed.

                       --
                       Steve Ringlee, Ames, IA and Boston.