Hello Fabio,

Hey! What's wrong with a Volvo? It beats any Beemer any day of the
week and twice on Sundays. 8-)

Well, since they are now a Chinese product ... I bought myself a hog
of a Mercedes... Good German design.

Yes, with a modern Renault engine. :P

Nothing like a Jaguar, which prowls the streets of London ...

Ward Volvo and BMW are the state of the art of Cars! Mercedes is running on
the sunset lane, poor overall quality and mediocre engines are qualifying modern mercedes products.

Italian motorcycles are much better than anything Mercedes has.

I own two BMW's a 1983 320i E30 and a 1998 320i E46 and I'd like to own also
a great Volvo 240 Polar Station Wagon. Obviusly I don't like modern cars. ;)

Wha'? And leave out the greatest of them all? Surely, you jest!

Fiat! The one and only car that could ever rival the Yugo!
And what a great car was the Yugo! Based on the 1969 Fiat!
In fact, it *was* a 1969 Fiat! Same parts, anyway ...

--Lee

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I had a 2001 V70 wagon, the plain old model - and loved it.

I have 2010 V70 and I still love it. I first fell in love with it when my wife and I borrowed it from the original owner, my BIL, for the round trip to and from our daughter who lives 1250km from here. Watching the fuel consumption on 120km/h highway speed going down to around 5 litres/100 km was something amazing. The Mercedes we left behind barely made it below 10 litres.

We instantly decided that we wanted to buy that car from the BIL, who worked at Volvo and had special employee deals, when he decided to upgrade to a newer model. And we got it in 2015 and I still hang on to it.

I still
want to get a 2004 XC70 if I can find a well-maintained one - that was
the last purely Volvo (designed and built by Volvo) if memory serves.
I think the next year was the year they came out with that Ford Taurus world platform.

Of that I've never heard. Volvo never used any Ford technology. On the contrary, Ford copied the Volvo platform and tried to make Ford cars that would match the well known Volvo reputation. And failed miserably.

Volvo cars has always been developed in G”teborg, Sweden ever since 1927, and Volvo will proudly continue to do so. The Ford years 1999-2009 were not good for Volvo, but they continued to build high quality cars despite Ford's wishes. The 2002 XC90 for instance was a formidable sale success.

Fortunately those years were even worse for Ford, that didn't know how to properly use what they bought (Volvo, Aston Martin, Land Rover and Jaguar). So in 2009 they finally gave up.


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