But it doesn't take a particularly fervid imagination to come up with a scenario involving a long and costly occupation of Iraq accompanied by a prolonged rise in oil prices.
Combined with the Titanium's optional 18-inch summer rubber and leaner sport suspension, the torque vectoring turns a fairly good front-driver into afervid and stubborn little gymkhana car.
Never mind that in some opinions the whole rigmarole was a milling anticlimax to the visit of wine critic Robert Parker, the One Voice That Matters, whose tour through a few days earlier was the subject of its own fervid rumor mill.