Motoko. Posted October 2, 2011 Share Posted October 2, 2011 I'm looking to purchase a S60 and I looked up the assembly platform and to my surprise it's still based in Belgium. For some paranoid reason I kept thinking since Ford bought jaguar and volvo among other brands I kept thinking they lowered the standards like quality of materials among other factors like assembly manufacturing procedures etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
evo_spook Posted October 2, 2011 Share Posted October 2, 2011 Ford no loner own Volvo or Jaguar. Tata own Jaguar and Land Rover Aston Martin is now independent (consortium) Vovlo without googling is now independent. I think there maybe parts/engine sharing between the companies and I thinnk ford only now not using the volvo 2.5 5cyl turbo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Motoko. Posted October 2, 2011 Author Share Posted October 2, 2011 Ford no loner own Volvo or Jaguar. Tata own Jaguar and Land Rover Aston Martin is now independent (consortium) Vovlo without googling is now independent. I think there maybe parts/engine sharing between the companies and I thinnk ford only now not using the volvo 2.5 5cyl turbo Oh wow that's really good news. I thought those brands would never be the same again. I'm gonna go for the S60 -R fully loaded Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeadEndAccount Posted October 2, 2011 Share Posted October 2, 2011 Ford no loner own Volvo or Jaguar.Tata own Jaguar and Land Rover Aston Martin is now independent (consortium) Vovlo without googling is now independent. I think there maybe parts/engine sharing between the companies and I think ford only now not using the volvo 2.5 5cyl turbo. Volvo was sold to Zhejiang Geely Holding Group in 2010 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deactivated170812 Posted October 2, 2011 Share Posted October 2, 2011 Volvo is owned by Geely Automobile, part of a Chinese holding company: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volvo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Mirumir Subscriber¹ Posted October 2, 2011 Subscriber¹ Share Posted October 2, 2011 @ OP S60 is nice and, yes, Volvo still makes great cars! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LittleNeutrino Veteran Posted October 2, 2011 Veteran Share Posted October 2, 2011 In my opinion I would, say they still make good cars the S80's are nice Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Draconian Guppy Posted October 2, 2011 Share Posted October 2, 2011 S60 platform is the same used for Mazda 3 and Ford Focus IIRC... Edit: nope, S60 is mazda 6 and ford XX Still, eletricals and whatnots are all the same apparently Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HawkMan Posted October 2, 2011 Share Posted October 2, 2011 Volvo made great cars?... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xtrabit racing Posted October 2, 2011 Share Posted October 2, 2011 nearly all brands lowered quality, imo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
.Markus Posted October 2, 2011 Share Posted October 2, 2011 Volvo made great cars?... They have for quite some years and still do actually. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PGHammer Posted October 28, 2011 Share Posted October 28, 2011 Volvo made great cars?... Volvo has *always* made great cars - even back in the days of the (infamous) 240 series. However, the 240s were, in a word, *boring*. No real pizazz in terms of styling, but safer than the average house (that is something Volvos and Saabs were both known for - however, Volvo, unlike Saab, was quirk-free). For that reason, Volvos (and Saabs, such as the 99 and 99E) became seen as mid-level engineers' cars (entry-level engineers drove Subarus, mid-level engineers drove Volvos or Saabs, while high-level engineers drove Mercedes or BMWs). During the 1980s, Volvo actually took their *boring* 740 Turbo (saloon) and 740 GLT wagon to SCCA and competed heads-up against BMW's 3-series and 5-series - and handed both their heads. (The GLT wagon is still the only wagon to win the sedan-class SCCA World Championship - and it did so twice.) The 740 Turbo and 760 Turbo (both gasoline and Diesel, and especially the wagons) were like a good *street sniper* in automotive terms - not a clue that serious firepower was under the hood. (I mean, really - who in their right mind would expect the prototypical *soccer mom* wagon of the pre-minivan days to turn your Bavarian sport sedan into mincemeat?) I could see Betty Ross (David Banner's girlfriend in the two recent Hulk movies) driving an XC90 today. However, like her boyfriend, you wouldn't want to challenge it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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