It needs a little more Sugga

Yeesh. Just fine for country roads and great off the beaten path, but I think it would be a great candidate for an engine swap. 

The side view looks like a mash up of a 740 and an XJ Cherokee.  If Volvo had a decent AWD system it could have been a Swedish Range Rover.  

Somewhere, in a parallel universe maybe, there is a Swedish version of David Tracy who is inconsolable having just read this article.

62 mph according to Wikipedia. 125hp at 4200 and 165lb at 2500. Slow and steady

The Volvo SUV I really want is a C303.

Much of what makes a care reliable or not has a lot to do with the types of people who buy them. Cheap “disposable” cars tend to be purchased by those who couldn’t give a damn about maintenance, often driving them into the ground and then complaining the car was a POS. I’ve owned a few of those “disposable” cars over…

can confirm. 

Maybe they assume whoever’s driving it has a low Social Score?

I get the usefulness of 1-3, but it’s kind of sad that #4 was deemed necessary. Are people intentionally ramming these things in China?

Forget the article. This comment section alone depicts the sad state of affairs for women who like cars, and the bullshit they have to put up with.

And like clockwork, the troglodytes of Jalopnik have made an asshole the most-starred commenter on this post.

so then what do you call moms who drive their kids to soccer? my mom was a soccer mom and she was proud of it. my wife is a hockey mom and loves every second. what about airforce moms or marine moms? you got a problem with them too?

Yeah, it’s some weird idea that everything is a zero-sum game. That when a marginalized group gets a little more attention, something is being taken away from the majority. So there are hordes of men who feel like their gender is suddenly under threat of losing its—whatever—because there’s now more stuff targeted at…

I agree Jalopnik should stop pointing out areas for improvement. As we all know, progress is made by those who shut up and mind their place in society.

Thank you for bringing up grid girls. T&A as a form of promotion belongs in the era of Mad Men.

I think the grandma comment is nitpicking. Didn’t Buick run an ad campaign about how the new ones aren’t your granddad’s Buick? Grandparents in general usually pick slower more comfortable cars.

If you remember nothing else from this life, remember that women like cars because they can do whatever they damn well please.

I’ve heard this was sort of typical.

Uncles second cousin moved to PPC in late ‘80s. His first letter was an ode to the regime in handwriting suspiciously unlike his and then total silence.