This is a sequel to Part One. All disclaimers and warnings from that story continue to apply.
On October 17, 2012, after an extremely forthright discussion about overzealous editing of a Volvo review, I sent this email to Bertel Schmitt, who by then had ascended to Editor-in-chief of The Truth About Cars:
Bertel,
Let me give you a little bit of what Ameri…