Comments on: Ford expects PAG profit in 2007

By: chevy490

chevy490 — Sun, 04 Feb 2007 17:21:25 +0000

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!

By: Mr. Wizard

Mr. Wizard — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 18:31:31 +0000

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

By: niallpolley

niallpolley — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 07:23:28 +0000

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

By: ironpony42

ironpony42 — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 23:34:23 +0000

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

By: motorheader

motorheader — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 22:03:30 +0000

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)

By: CTS DRIVER

CTS DRIVER — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 20:40:04 +0000

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.

By: mujician

mujician — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 20:12:42 +0000

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

By: MC

MC — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 19:37:34 +0000

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.

By: MC

MC — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 19:28:42 +0000

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Comment by bousbous55

LOL This is really the perfect post. LOL

By: British_Rover

British_Rover — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 19:07:26 +0000

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.

By: maximus

maximus — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 18:49:42 +0000

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

By: global_lightning

global_lightning — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 17:39:14 +0000

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/

By: GMnumberone4ever

GMnumberone4ever — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 17:23:06 +0000

Next to the Malibu Maxx of course

By: 1966_GTO_

1966_GTO_ — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 17:02:25 +0000

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

By: GMnumberone4ever

GMnumberone4ever — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 16:34:04 +0000

Volvo is Shit. Buy GM.

By: angelo

angelo — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 16:15:59 +0000

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.

By: 1966_GTO_

1966_GTO_ — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 16:08:07 +0000

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…

By: 1966_GTO_

1966_GTO_ — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 16:07:46 +0000

By: CTS DRIVER

CTS DRIVER — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 15:59:16 +0000

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.

By: CTS DRIVER

CTS DRIVER — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 15:46:08 +0000

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.

By: British_Rover

British_Rover — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 15:40:56 +0000

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.

By: GarbageMotorsCo

GarbageMotorsCo — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 15:21:56 +0000

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.

By: British_Rover

British_Rover — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 15:19:05 +0000

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.

By: meanpants555

meanpants555 — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 14:24:16 +0000

Thanks for the Volvo tuners, mucho appreciato.

By: niallpolley

niallpolley — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 12:46:01 +0000

Ironpony,

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

By: niallpolley

niallpolley — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 10:57:17 +0000

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?

By: chuckles

chuckles — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 06:22:36 +0000

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.

By: Veda

Veda — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 06:21:12 +0000

“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.

By: chuckles

chuckles — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 06:03:45 +0000

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.

By: Jon

Jon — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 05:33:43 +0000

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.

By: A4

A4 — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 05:30:47 +0000

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.

By: 1966_GTO_

1966_GTO_ — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 04:10:23 +0000

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.

By: S-60-driver

S-60-driver — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 03:44:07 +0000

@ 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.

By: tristanw

tristanw — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 03:15:06 +0000

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

By: Elvio

Elvio — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 01:53:25 +0000

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.

By: PrimeGTP

PrimeGTP — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 01:13:20 +0000

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.

By: Andre Neves

Andre Neves — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 00:43:56 +0000

^well said^

By: ironpony42

ironpony42 — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 00:37:23 +0000

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.

By: F451

F451 — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 00:16:43 +0000

@ 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.

By: vwjamesmc

vwjamesmc — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 00:06:09 +0000

Volvo = Dead Brand. Nobody cares.

By: megator

megator — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 00:05:00 +0000

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

By: Volvoman

Volvoman — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 00:03:51 +0000

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?

By: ironpony42

ironpony42 — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 00:03:35 +0000

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.

By: vwjamesmc

vwjamesmc — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 23:58:09 +0000

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

By: Andre Neves

Andre Neves — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 23:39:06 +0000

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