Everyone with ears.

Another remarkable fact about the 1991 850: It was the first completely new Volco since 1944. All other cars in between carried over significant parts from earlier models, at least engines.

⬆ Neatly sums up what I thought when I read about the factory in a non-car book a couple of years ago. I guess it’s...eh...cool, too:

I have never witnessed a car name based on worse confidence...”What shall we call our car?” - “Bad all - it excels at nothing!” - “So it shall be, Badal is born!”

You say “best” and you mean “obscure”, right? Daewoo Uzbekistan is still making the car known to Americans as the Pontiac Lemans, and Opel Kadett in the old world. Hot as ever.

You mentioned it, but this is a voting process, right?

Isn’t JD Powers about measuring opinions? Actual tech inspection data like anusedcar.com show different results, particularly if you get your hand on mileage-weighed info.

In Norway, there’s a hoon-spec: The cheapest version will be the manual D3 starting at ~57000$, which is very cheap. Other models will potentially be from 40% upwards more expensive. That’s a kind entry into what certainly looks and feels like a luxury car.

So I just got myself a new Outlander, but I’ve lost the key...

Toyota dealer network working with a DMC and a Nissan? So...they do care about the message more than about advertising for themselves? Odd.

How am I going to deride GM after seeing this black swan?

On time and on budget. Germanic engineers are not human.

That’s outrageous! Our last living room laptop was a .8 Volvo wagon. I’m still not really over that.

I have such a car in my history, too. Can’t tell you how fed up my wife is with: “That vacation equals two perfectly fine 1971 Volvo 145!”...etc.

NP, not much to do wrong at that price. I really like the smooth exterior, but once inside the car, I’d be reminded that this personal coupé fits certain professions better than others, cough.

I interpret this in such a way that Volvo remains the top desirable car in the hip hop community. Jepp.

This. As far as I know, there’s no race car ambition baked into the Genesis, so it’s just good old gas addiction. I’ve had several 30-40 year old cars which would get significantly better mileage - at less output, of course, but it just doesn’t add up.

See, that’s ridiculous. Norwegian media have been lambasting the car for just that - equally powerful European offerings get 40% better mileage. I’m very fond of the Korean duo for their ambition, priorities and development - it’s great watching them grow up. The Soul is probably the coolest compact car available…

50k$ sounds like a lot, but compare that to 145k$ in Norway: Fuel consumption of the V6 Genesis is ridiculous, close to 19mpg. So all sorts of punitive ecotaxes kick in to sour the car. I’d be surprised to see many Hyundai sell for the price of a medium-equipped Volvo XC90.