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I just drove the 850 for the first time in a couple of weeks, it's interesting what contrasts jumping out of one car and into another bring forward.
The Volvo is a performance car - it's got Koni adjustable dampers, Eibach springs, AP brakes, and just shy of 400 horsepower. It feels like driving a sofa after the 911. A fast sofa, but still a sofa.
This does however mean that I get to appreciate a different aspect of the Volvo, and probably stop trying to make it into something it isn't. I'm having AP brakes fitted to the rear, and might get some sort of valve placed in the exhaust (it booms at lower revs being on a 3" pipe, I'd like to get rid of that noise at cruising speeds), but I think that's probably where I'll stop now.