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Current Volvos ( the S60 for example) are using Ford engines like the Ecoboost.

I’m very keen to see what the Model 3 will be like. The only thing is that my wife and I tend to take long weekend trips and even the Model 3 would be problematic. The other “car” is my 20 year old Tacoma, which I don’t really want to sell.

Here’s something to consider: I owned the first gen Prius. Ever seen one of those? You might confuse it with a Nissan Versa or some other small compact car. That car was tiny and so too was the interior. And then over the next few generations it inflated. My mom owns a 2013 Prius V and the thing is like a minivan. Our…

I was referring the Land Rover and Jaguar. Sorry, I should have been more clear.

On the old Volvos, sure. The “new” S60's since 2010 have used Ecoboost engines, which is interesting as that was the year Volvo was sold to Geely. The new models retain the same engine.

I am not totally agreeing with you in regards to the Prius. The name “Prius” has become a dictionary term for “Green car”. It has tremendous mindshare and familiarity. People are still buying the absolute snot out of those cars and with the variety they now have with the Prius C, V, and now this model “Prime” there’s…

The S60 uses a Ford Ecoboost engine. Albeit its branded as “Volvo” bit virtually a Ecoboost engine. I mean- its not like its a bad thing: the ecoboost has proven to be very reliable and fuel efficient. Also of interesting note: The S60 will be the first car sold in the US that will be made in China.

Probably the best volvos are the ones based off of mazdas.

intresting that the car still had ford parts inside.

Congrats! BTW, my best friend from high school owns a 96' Cherokee that he has used and abused for years. Last time I talked with him it had 600,000 miles. I don't think he bothers to change the fluids.

Color me ignorant. But this thing weighs 45,000 tons. The same size as a ww2 era carrier. So its huge. Granted the current carrier size is 100k tons. But what are these things before besides being a smaller carried?

How much of Volvo is actually Volvo? It’s a company bought and then sold to Ford, sold to a Chinese firm, now re-hashed as a new redesigned “volvo”.a friend of mine bought a new cross country recently. The first thing I saw when I lifted the hood was an engine support stamped “FoMoco”,

I can’t keep up with all the batman/superman/whatever movies. They all blend together.

I am a kind of short guy ( 5 ft 7" but my wife is around 6 ft. I’m ok with the Volt but she find it a tad cramped. The Volt was basically built around a Chevy Cruz- a compact car. So its a smallish car with compromised interior space due to the huge battery.

I’ve seen a few in person. Whole nuther’ ball of wax. The cars are fairly ugly on the road. To me what they look like is if some giant were to came down and pinched the front and back. Its like they took the old Prius and stuck it in a vice and this is what you get, with the lights squeezed upwards.

You are probably correct. I am guessing Toyota felt they needed to find another niche to corner the market with. The reality is that they should have continued focussing on the Prius. Despite the Prius now being now somewhat less advanced than the Volt and other more recent models people still buy the crap out of the…

Well, we had an 02' Prius before the Volt and the brakes on the Volt seemed about 50% better than the Prius. I could see how the old Volt would have been a problem with a family with four kids but apparently the new one has remedied that issue with a bigger set of back seats since the battery now doesn’t occupy the…

I’m not sure why they are hanging their hat on hyrogen. The infrastructure simply is not there. For comparison natural gas stations are somewhat common and yet there is only a few natural gas consumer cars, like the civic NGV. Those barely sell. That and from a scientific perspective hydrogen isn’t even an energy…

I own the first gen Volt. I thought about the same thing. But in reality no matter how careful I am, I still wind up using gas. For example I will go to work all week long. My commute is 38 miles each way and there is a charge station I use there. I make it there and back all week with no gas. But then for example- if…