[guitarplayer1953]

Has anyone else noticed that when a family or a geek family is portrayed in the movies they generally are driving a Volvo station wagon? Yet according to this Volvo is not a big seller in the USA.

[Lazlo in PA]

Now that the weather got nice and Spring is here, I pulled this out of mothballs this weekend. This is my daily driver in nice weather. This is a gas guzzler. Not that garbage listed above.

I bet a dollar anyone driving a Volvo would not like to be rear ended by that. LOL.

[Nowhere Man]

Hmmm, interesting. I have a friend in Sweden, IIRC, he told me his mom likes to drive a Benz and his father, a Volvo. There are actually American car enthusiasts in Sweden as well. They seem to enjoy a quite high standard of living in Sweden, IIRC, over the years, they have realized that they have become too socialist although they still have some weird laws an high taxes. I Google Earthed a house in Sweden, I did see a central A/C unit, come to think if it, if I didn’t know it was Sweden I would have thought it was in West Virgina.

[5thGenTexan]

Hmm. I see a pattern. In the car producing countries, they purchase mainly locally produced cars. Maybe it's because things produced locally as large as a car are probably less expensive since they aren't shipped from somewhere else?

The German and Japanese car producers are adapting to that fact by building local plant in the USA, which will begin to alter that dynamic.

How do I get to be paid for doing such important “research”?

[Born to Conserve]

Volvo doesn’t make the top ten in the U.S. and yet we buy more Volvos than Sweden.

“Top that!”

[Revolting cat!]

The Swiss drive Škodas, which are less expensive Volkswagens made in the Czech Republic. When I was in Switzerland, my friend there said that the Beemers there are driven by poor Poles who come as seasonal workers to Swiss farms during the harvest season.

[Tupelo]

What I find interesting is so many people find it so easy to use a slur to refer to the Japanese.
The same people would never refer to Italians as D**os or Mexicans as S**cs but feel it is just fine to to refer to Japanese as “Japs”. WWll has been over for over 60 years, I think it is time to start referring to the Japanese with the same respect as we do others.

[Tucker39]

Wow! What a surprise! And ya’ know what?! The Pope’s a Catholic, and bears crap in the woods! Can you believe it?!

[SoothingDave]

Volvos: They’re Boxy, But Good.

[riri]

We tend to have bigger families and need bigger cars. Though you all are starting to reproduce a bit more it seems to me. (interesting how that will change the socialist priorities of many --but that's another thread for another day)

I saw a lot of Audis and Range rovers over there.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

10 Best selling cars in the US 2011:

1. Ford F-series 2. Chevrolet Silverado 3. Toyota Camry 4. Nissan Altima

How are the Ford F-series and Chevy Silverado "cars"?

[freedomfiter2]

The average American car owner might be annoyed with gas prices, but despite his opinions on Obama’s handling of the nation, he still can afford to drive around in a gas guzzler.

Unlike Europeans, we Americans are still breeding and need the space to haul our offspring.

[Baynative]

"Unlike rich Norway and Denmark, where car consumption is heavily discouraged,"

American liberals could go serious with an anti car campaign like they did with cigarettes. Of course if it worked the only vehicles on the road would be buses and trucks to deliver our goods and a loaf of bread would be $20.00 because of the tax the trucks would pay to maintain the roads that no one would use anymore.

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

Japs drive Japs?

[max americana]

Right out of college my car was a used Volvo 740.

The used car salesman almost gave it to me dirt cheap as I was still starting life out of university. Then I was out looking for an apartment and I got one immediately. I eventually left that apt bldg and I asked the manager why he gave me the place.

She told me I drove a Volvo. It showed a certain ‘responsible’ trait for a young dude. The only thing I hate is was it came with a tape track and not a CD player so whenever I went on dates, the girls felt pity on me.

But I took care of that “pity” by using the backseat (wink)

[Cronos]

not a big shocker: carsmade in Sweden cost less IN Sweden than outside — import taxes etc. And Volve gets tax breaks in comparison. Ditto (only more so) for Japanese cars in Japan and German cars in Germany

[CodeToad]

Just another one of WesternCulture's 'America Sucks! Europe is Better!' threads. Thread #14.