>>And, BTW, you can cut the engine off but the steering won't lock until you pull out the key - but you don't really have to kill the engine, just shift down and get your foot off the pedal. With the automatic you maybe won't get that much slower, but still, may as well get slow enough to start some friction against the sides of the road (fence, wall, whatever available), which should slow it down even more, and then when the time is right, kill the engine and/or pick a soft target to smash.
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>But you didn't read my post. The car can't be shut down or downshifted. That stuff you cited is only possible if our villain hasn't outthought us on these things.

I did read it, but decided to answer upstream, at a point before your villain came to play. He's too witty :).