I only have experience about driving Volvo estates (yes, plural, I have
#1 and
#2) into things - concrete walls, iron pillars, trees - or getting things driven into them and the latter is what I'll use as a contribution here.
Brick #2 a.k.a. 940 Classic presented me with my first ever experience involving a traffic accident as a driver, judging by her driving the girl had barely got her licence when she drove right into the rear of my car. I had just got moving from a red light turned green and was turning to the right over a zebra crossing when I noticed a cyclist about to cross the street, put my foot on the brake and didn't even begin the actual braking when the next thing I realized was a slight bump accompanied by the sound of breaking car parts behind my back. A lot of thoughts went through my head during the ten metres or so that it took to get to the nearest, very conveniently positioned, bus stop... I thought the car was history (940 Classics are more than moderately rare, that was my biggest concern) with a twisted bumper, rear skirts gone, the hatch all crumbled up, rear fenders anything but intact... I parked the car, turned on the hazard flashers and exited the door pretty quickly with a WHAT THE *bleep bleep bleepety bleep* attitude.
When I reached the rear end of my car all I could do was laugh. I couldn't even say that the tow hitch had its paint damaged as it was already paintless and rusty, in fact I got more paint on it... a stamp-sized white mark right in the middle of the ball but the '09 Golf Variant had the entire right side of its front bumper smashed, no doubt the bumper needed relacing and the headlight unit didn't seem to be very well aligned either.
'98 Volvo vs. '09 Volkswagen, 1-0!
