At 6.75 litres, the Turbo R's overhead-valve V8 remains one of the most enormous passenger-car engines of the past 30 years.
Near-supermini pricing (the range is expected to start at about£12,500) is combined with an enormous rear passenger compartment and a vast 550 litre (seats-up) luggage space that many far bigger and pricier cars would find hard to match.
With the top down, the drive is a little noisier, and the enormous rear passenger area — fine, leather-bound acreage that includes its own seat warmers and coolers — is as windy as the back seat of a lesser car.
We also saw an enormous decrease in passenger traffic.
Just two regular guys, railroad employees, each with a big heart, an enormous concern for passenger well-being, and a pair of balls the size and weight of Saturn's moons.
The passenger volumes are enormous, about 14 million people a day, according to the American Public Transportation Association, of whom most are on buses, plus about 4 million on subways, suburban commuter trains or other rail transport, and smaller numbers on ferries.
When leaving Sweden, I always buy a three-dollar lottery ticket and scrape it while sipping flat whites in front of my favorite coffee shop, although now those enormous windows I mentioned face passengers handing their bags in.
From its spacious staterooms one looks out upon the river scene passing timber rafts laden with enormous teak logs; crowded double-decker passenger boats; barges transporting produce, cement, fertilizer and glazed pots.
Outside the porthole office window, the Danielle Casanova, an enormous white ferry, waited to carry passengers to Algeria.
Parachutes for all of a commercial airliner's passengers would weigh an enormous amount, requiring airlines to carry fewer people and increasing ticket prices.
The new regulations, proposed on Wednesday, are a response to the many problems of modern air travel, including an enormous increase in the number of passengers bumped by airlines because of overbooked flights.
