That C30 is way cool. Lets beat GM to the punch ITS NOT AS GOOD AS ANY GM Product. Who are we kidding no one could be better than GM. Now that thats over with. Let the real comments begin!

Volvos are ugly and unreliable.

Anyone know of a Volvo tuning firm?

I think Volvo is definately heading in the right direction. Jaguar will take it’s turn the next coming year with the introduction of the XF.
Believe it or not, I believe that Ford still needs alot to catch up to the innovation, design, & potential of the PAG brands. Ford’s recent & upcoming model(except for Edge) look outdated & way too concervative.

That’s a nice little hatch… With volvo’s safety and reliability should be a great little car… Do they have an AWD version planned?

Who would be dumb enough to buy a Volvo C30 hatch when you can buy the “2007 Automobile Magazine Car of the Year” VW New GTI hatch for the same money?

meanpants555: Yes I do know of a Volvo tuning firm, it’s called Evolve, and all they do are tune Volvo’s. I was recently reading about the Evolve S60R and it’s supposed to be a good package. Here’s the website, check it out:

http://www.evolvecars.com/site/index.php

vwjamesmc,
What if the C30 is 2008’s Car of the Year for Automobile Magazine? Im pretty sure they excluded it from 2007’s test because of it not being available yet.

Yea volvo’s are big in the rally’s too. Indestructible cars. Jeremy hit a brick wall in one at 2o mph and drove it off the toppled wall and unto the sunset! The two others didnt make it breaking some limbs and what not. Dont knock em. Thats a hot little hatch.

Clarkson on Top gear…sorry.

Most GM cars make baby Jesus cry.

^ ^ vwjamesmc @ 4:11pm….

yeah, the new GTI hatchback is sweet, but VW reliablity is at the bottom per quality reports. It sucks. Im dying to get one of these, GTI or Rabbit or Jetta. Im waiting for a better quality report in the future before getting one.

Andre, If the 2008 C30 does win(which it will not)for 2008 I would still take a 2008 GTI any day. Volvos are for Librarians over 65 years old. I bet a GM vehicle will win for 2008. Isn’t that correct GMnumberone4ever?

Someone with S60 as their screen name is concerned about a quality report?

Yes sir, vwjamesmc. Check ou the 2008 CTS and Malibu.

THE PERFECT WEB SITE FOR GMnumberone4ver…

http://gmlemoncars.com/

the volkswagen scored third to last in quality per J.D. Powers website. Volvo scored slighty under the “industry average”. So there!

Plus, i have no problems with my S-60. Its leased. If there’s a problem, its all free, plus i get to have the pleasure to drive a free loaner. Anything from S-40 to XC-90 to S-80.

I’m not bashing VW. I love these cars. Its a little scary when they are third to last in ranking. I dont want to deal with trips to the service center. I had a Land Rover before. It was a nightmare.

@ bousbous55…..

LOL!!!! yeah, great find!!

TAKE THAT, GM#one4ever!! Go cry to your momma!!!

“Andre, If the 2008 C30 does win(which it will not)for 2008…” -vwjamesmc
ok Nostradamus.

bousbous55,
yeah, nice find. The site even has a picture of GMnumberone4ever …
http://gmlemoncars.com/bagdadbob2.jpg

LOL… Andre Neves

Andre, the C30 will not win because GMnumberone4ever said that a GM product will win for 2008.

They haven’t even priced the C30 for the US yet. How do you know it will not be less then the GTI??

Oh and Turbo 5 cylinder >>> Turbo 4 cylinder.

s60 your car is nice, there is a grey one at my work, by boss and sister in law each drive s40`s nobody has had a real problem with them, minor issues that dont really matter, glove box latch adjustments and stupid useless things that i dont count as a problem. i would take a volvo over a vw in a heartbeat, not even an option. still want the red 2008 cts with awd though, i know most posters here will crucify me for saying that, but cars nowadays come to personal preferance, i happen to like the styling and ride of my cts, i can give a rats ass about the “hard plastics”,the seats fit my ass real good and the car is problem free.

“..the seats fit my ass real good..” -CTS DRIVER
Amen.

Volvo & Cadillac over the VW. Shouldn’t you guys been on a 65 years old and over website? Or Boring.com?

One of the worlds finest Volvo tuners – http://www.ipdusa.com/

People from all over the world order parts from these guys. Great folks, I’ve been to one of their swap-meet show and shines. Very cool stuff, and the C30 they did for SEMA was just plain wicked.

I’ve always loved Volvo’s and I’d buy a Volvo without hesitation. Just research the components involved, to avoid GM-sourced parts like the first release XC90’s tranny. What a mistake, I’m sure Volvo learned from that one.

I think Volvo stands poised to have a great year. The low-volume C70 has been in high demand with orders out to the summer. The new S80 is generating traffic ahead of its official February launch. Hopefully Volvo can capitalize on the buzz surrounding its collision warning system, blind spot indicator and personal car communicator with the heartbeat sensor. Kind of like the Lexus LS that parks itself, only Volvo’s systems actually will be useful…and unlike the LS, the brakes are world-class. The new XC70 will be a hit and of course the C30…

Whether it’s enough to compensate for the bleeding at Jaguar – who knows?

heico is real famous volvo tuner. they even raced an old 850.

Volvo = Dead Brand. Nobody cares.

@ ironpony42,
Great tuner link. Thanks. I don’t believe GM has anything in this category to show or sell. And the new Cadillac CTS looks likes an old man’s car.

You’re right F451, as much as GM wants younger people buying Caddies, they’re still for the grayhairs. No offense to CTS-driver. If you like it, and it fits your ass, go for it. Who cares what others think. I drive a beater $500 ‘89 Suzuki 16v GTI Swift to work. It’s full of dents, and I never wash it. Like I care what someone in a $50k BMW thinks of me at a light. I’m getting 37 mpg in a car that cost me less than one payment on that 50k BMW, and I get to thrash it like a rally car. My like new shiny 2005 Jeep Wrangler sits in my garage all week waiting for the weekend to suck its 15mpg.

The line up at Volvo is hard to beat. Quality, safe, dependable AND fun. Not an easy feat. PAG is lucky to have them, and I expect good things will happen for volvo over the next few years.

The guys at IPD have a really nice shop, and they have stuff for ALL Volvos back to the ’50’s, which is really cool. Most tuners quit supporting older models and move on, but IPD realizes the demand and supports older cars as well as cutting edge new stuff. I keep thinking of tracking down a early 80’s 240 Bertone and restoring it with IPD goodies.

^well said^

Volvo needs to take the C30 and run with it as the spearhead of a brand revival if they are going to recover from the “blah” that they are in. They are one of several car brands I can think of that have incredible potential, but need to take a more aggressive attitude, Pontiac for example.

As far as the rest of the PAG goes, it’s in shambles. Land Rover is a joke, and Aston Martin isn’t used to its market being competitive. As for Jaguar, its potential is wasted under Ford’s terrible management.

Hey…I am not sure it’s just me or also the others….the C30 looks very alike the old day Civic hatchback, but better looking.

Well…each car looks like some other car…that’s not a discovery.

@ vwjamesmc, VW isnt a luxury brand. They are trying to be, but it wont work. There’s Audi for it.

And…..you need to stop with the lame sterotypical comments on Volvo cars for libarian/yuppie drivers. Its the oldest sterotype in the world. Move on already. Its true back in 1980s, but not anymore. Lots of young adults are driving Volvos nowadays.

I agree with S-60-driver. Volvo has been putting out some attractive vehicles recently and they continue to impress me. It’s a shame they have to be owned by Ford.

first off… is this article about ford turning a profit or the damn C30? and second.. the GTI is awesome and as long as you have a warranty theres no point not to buy one. The C30 wont make car of the year… its just not the same.

Volvo has been decried as being “practical”, “boring” and an “old man’s car”. Some of those criticisms have some truth to them but that is slowly “evolving” (sorry for the tuner pun).

Ford should be happy that they picked up Volvo… it’s been a nice feather in their cap.

Whether you like the design of Volvo cars or not, (I’ve only recently seen a couple concept cars from them that I would consider), they have been a very innovative company in many areas:
A large amount of the safety features that are available in any brand of auto today exists due to Volvo research and development over the last 75 years.
Volvo has also been an industry leader in automobile ecology, way before it even became somewhat vogue. They are the “cleanest” auto manufacturer worldwide, both for their consumers and in their manufacturing techniques. They continously earn environmental recognition in their country of Sweden.
No surprise that Bill Ford was attracted to Volvo, I read a Time magazine article about him over a year ago that claimed that he has been a champion for the environment. The Rouge manufacturing plant renovation was supposedly his brain-child.

“Volvo has been decried as being “practical”, “boring” and an “old man’s car”

The people who are saying this obviously never compared the previous gen S40 against the 3 series of the same price range. You get a lot more with the S40 plus with a cheap change of real leather steering wheel, it feels a lot more sporty. Plus it comes with better seats and more interior features than the bimmer. Young punks tend to rate everything based on numbers and exterior styling, not on real world performance. The Volvo stereotype is a hard one to kill but if you take off your bias glasses for once and see cars for what they’re worth, Volvos are some of the best deals out there especially used ones.

Sorry, got off track there a litle…
Mulally will not sit by and let PAG be a liability to Ford. Bill and the board hired him to do what it took to get the job done for Ford to be profitable and a leader once again worldwide.

So Ford’s import brands might turn a profit next year.

And their domestic brands?

Any comments on the success of imports when compared with domestic vehicles GMnumberone4ever?

Ironpony,

Nice attitude bro, very sensible outlook, but a 240, really?

Thanks for the Volvo tuners, mucho appreciato.

Land Rover has been profitable for the past three years and will only be more profitable as the years go by.

As the older more troublesome Land Rovers go out of warranty things will get even better. In another 18 months most of the Freelanders, which is perhaps the least reliable modern car ever built, will be out of warranty and that will help even more.

We ran out of most Land Rovers last year. We could have sold a dozen or so more Rovers at my dealership last year but we couldn’t get them. That is how well the new product is going. By the first week of november we were out of all 2006 MY Range Rovers and Range Rover Sports.

This is going to be extremely successful for Volvo. If they build an R version like the S60 and tap the Haldex AWD system from the S40, they could have a serious M fighter here as well.

I wand a C30R with say oh 300 hp please.

Then pump the S60R/V70R up to 333 please and then make a S80 R with an even 400 hp.

Volvo & Cadillac over the VW. Shouldn’t you guys been on a 65 years old and over website? Or Boring.com?

Comment by vwjamesmc, posted on January29 at 6:58 pm

i havnt seen very many vw`s here in so cal that dont overheat, dont know why but waaaaaaay too many of the crappy plastic radiators fail, last nite i gave 15 bucks to 2 teenage girls in a parking lot st they could go buy some coolant, when they popped the hood the reservoir was full, but the drivers display still said low coolant turn off car. so biffy, i would still rather have a sexy new volvo over a teenage girle jette or passat ot eos or rabbit, the volvo will at least not overheat, mabey ill give your poor ass 15 bucks when youre broke down too. then ill take my young 32 year old ass over to the strip club and spend the money youll need for a tow truck.

its all good ironpony42, i love alot of cars and commute to work everyday in my nissan frontier with a dented passenger side (got sideswiped by a luxus who didnt stop, and i sure couldnt catch up)so no offence here, i do get the old mans car joke alot but drive a dts then drive the cts and you will see the cts drives much more like a bmw (my girl has a 525i). its all perception, cadillac has had the old mans image for years with cars like the sedan deville and deville. just like with volvo a manufacturers target audience can change, and with so many younger buyers its smart to move from the old mans image, while lexus seems to be the old mans car replacement, a car that almost parks itself wtf? if you cant park please stop driving.

Enough with the ‘old man’s car’ discussion. Cadillac has shed that image in the recent years with the exception of the DTS, which still targets older buyers. Volvo has been working on shedding that image, and in my eyes, they have. I’ve had bad experiences with VW and none of their vehicles really excite me, I would much rather have a Caddy or Volvo.

Enough with the ‘old man’s car’ discussion. Cadillac has shed that image in the recent years with the exception of the DTS, which still targets older buyers. Volvo has been working on shedding that image, and in my eyes, they have. I’ve had bad experiences with VW and none of their vehicles really excite me, I would much rather have a Volvo or stick with my SRX…

C30 is cool… and PAG will have the LR3 and the C30 going on sale about 6 months from each other… this is huge for them. Both of these cars will sell well (C30 in Europe, LR3 in the USA) and make money.

Volvo is ****. Buy GM.

In my opinion, the C30 will be the most attractive hatch on the road.

Next to the Malibu Maxx of course

British_Rover,
I’ll take your C30R and add the DSG transmission Volvo’s working for Ford. See this story:

http://www.leftlanenews.com/2006/12/11/report-volvos-dual-clutch-gearbox-to-arrive-in-under-a-year/

i saw a VW wagon passat yesterday. You can call me a square, but I liked it. Sorry for the irrelevant comment.

Yeah I heard about the DSG from Volvo. I would expect that to start coming into Volvo cars within the next 18 months to a year and then move to other Ford Brands shortly thereafter.

THE PERFECT WEB SITE FOR GMnumberone4ver…

http://gmlemoncars.com/
Comment by bousbous55

LOL This is really the perfect post. LOL

http://articles.moneycentral.msn.com/SavingandDebt/SaveonaCar/MostDependableCar.aspx

Heres a list of most dependable cars in order. Ford is ahead of GMC and Chevy. Eat that GMnumberone4ever.

Who said, it get’s worse before it gets better?

I LIKE HOW #` 2,3,& 4 ARE DOMESTICS, THE WAY PEOPLE TALK HERE THEY SHOULD BE BELOW LAND ROVERS ENORMOUS 438PPV. BUT HUMMER SAAB AND SUZUKI PROBABLE EVEN THE SCORE SOME, THEY ARE PRETTY FAR DOWN THE LIST. BUT I DONT CARE I WILL ONLY BUY CADDYS FOR A CAR, TRUCKS ARE A DIFFERENT STORY BEST DEAL WINS, IMPORT OR DOMESTIC.

meanpants555:
Another chip tuner company: Swedens BSR. Check out http://www.bsrab.se. They also do chip tuning for a lot of other Eurocars. (Audi, VW, BMW, Saab, Mercedes, Mini Ferrari, Porsche and Europe only brans like Skoda, Seat, Opel, Euro Ford Focus, and the Euro-Cadillac (BLS the 9-3 clone) BSR is also official supplier to Koenigsegg. (www.koenigsegg.com)

Ironpony,

Nice attitude bro, very sensible outlook, but a 240, really?

Comment by niallpolley, posted on January30 at 7:46 am

Yeah, I know it’s a little sick and twisted, but I’ve always loved the chop-top look of the Bertone 240. Add a turbo, 4-wheel discs, and suspension upgrades, and 240’s can be surprising performers. Plus, I think I’m drawn the the unique factor. Bertone Volvo’s are a bit rare.

http://www.volvoforlife-fr.com/240-260_fichiers/image022.jpg

That’s actually a very cool ride, very ghetto pimp.

I’ve seen some mad 240 dragsters in Sweden, very bizarre to see stock -looking wagons blowing away Porsches

I just saw this at the Detroit Auto Show. Nice looking vehicle.

yea lol ford making money all they had to make money was f-series trucks now that chevy has a knew truck there going to domanate the compatition!