A governor limits top speed to 129 mph. The front bucket seats have great lateral support for enthusiastic driving, but the rear seats have the comfort, if not the knee room, of expensive luxury sedans. Lars shoved Gunilla in the passenger seat. I reflexively hopped in the back. Then I remembered what I should have thought of earlier.
Swedes drive like maniacs.
Lars took off like a Viking possessed. They are covered with snow half the year, and Volvos do particularly well in those conditions. My mind raced back to the Swedish rally drivers I've met. To find out how fast the car will go around a particular curve, they try it flat out. If they go off the road, they keep trying the curve slower and slower until the car no longer goes off the road.