How I settled with Volvos

First of all, I am not a "成功人士", happened have a full-time job for the last 16 years, and pay my mortgage like others. I am not here for show off. As I said before, there are too many Chinese here are "paper talks", some of them you could see are still at university for their master or phd, and of course driving a used Japanese car. They do have plenty of time browsing online, and are dreaming daily with Bemers or Benz...Do they ever drove one? I am talking about driving daily for at least one year, no test drive...

I have had 4 different models of Volvo, and I still have 2 for daily use.

one bought used: a station wagon, there bought brand new: S40 for my GF (now my wife, and she still drive it daily); S60 for my daily work and a XC70 (it was my dream car after the used station wagon) for our leisure. Of course, I do have experiences with Jap cars too: Celica GTS (I was a student, and poor and young and for speed), Acura Integra, Civic and CRV, all bought brand new within 5 years period and sold them all.

I do not know what I really wanted until I was 30. I settled myself with Volvos other than Benz nor BMW (Although I could/can afforded, but I thought they are over priced)

I love Volvos for two main reasons: Safety and Elegant.

All my Volvos have no major troubles over the years, of course, it costs more for maintenance/repairs and not really fuel efficient than those Jap cars.

What's Reliable? All cars are just machines, sooner or later they will have problems even a brand new one. Car's reliability is related with your driving habits, knowledge, and maintenance. All my volvo cars are running great even the 12 years old S60. Why, because I knew how to treat them - I run a charter bus company with a fleet of over 90 highway coaches and cars.

Read your manual, driving carefully for the first year of your new car, follow the scheduled / suggested services in at least 4 years(not DIY, you can never save money and get performance at the same time). Not only Volvo, but also all other cars.

Go test drive one, and see if you like its handling. I did my with couple Lexus before purchasing the XC70. Lexus has quieter engine with many computer controlled fancy devices, however, I just could not feel any "Luxury" about it. Bottom line is: I need a car that is safe on the road.

To be continue...

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• This is a good one... -internuts- ♂ (0 bytes) () 03/27/2010 postreply 08:58:52

• 好文，能否單開一貼？斑竹可否至頂？ -RichardCranium- ♂ (34 bytes) () 03/27/2010 postreply 10:12:24

• 支持！另外建議修改一些typo -piani- ♂ (20 bytes) () 03/27/2010 postreply 10:43:13

• XC70 is not as good as XC90 -hello2002- ♀ (0 bytes) () 03/27/2010 postreply 11:56:38

• but XC70 has 0% 5 years finance now -11940- ♂ (57 bytes) () 03/27/2010 postreply 20:34:40

• 回複：but XC70 has 0% 5 years finance now -etiyyc- ♂ (204 bytes) () 03/27/2010 postreply 20:49:57

• 回複：but XC70 has 0% 5 years finance now -xc70- ♂ (53 bytes) () 03/28/2010 postreply 10:09:44

• only had experience with loaner car, compare to my own car, I su -2006XC90- ♀ (0 bytes) () 03/28/2010 postreply 19:52:06

• 你買(or lease)的這些 Volvos是否可以打入公司成本？ -1800800- ♂ (0 bytes) () 03/27/2010 postreply 14:50:07

• 如果title是公司的名字，可全打。如果是個人的名字， -internuts- ♂ (71 bytes) () 03/27/2010 postreply 15:38:13

• 奶位大瞎給翻譯一下唄，看著頭疼 -gasbag- ♀ (0 bytes) () 03/27/2010 postreply 19:32:14

• 俺給翻譯一下唄，估計頭更疼了。。。 -1800800- ♂ (1543 bytes) () 03/27/2010 postreply 20:45:07

• 回複：俺給翻譯一下唄，估計頭更疼了。。。 -etiyyc- ♂ (108 bytes) () 03/27/2010 postreply 21:08:10