… at minimum, every 60k miles or so.
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Well - if not in a rush - take delivery in Sweden! You’ll be treated to airfare, hotel, guided tour - and a vacation. Then, you drop off your (now technically “used” car, for customs/import purposes) to be shipped to U.S. where it will be delivered to your dealer:
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Yes, S has been encouraging us to give that trip to Sweden serious consideration. Haha!
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Most important - what color is it?
For my first car I really wanted a Ford Mustang and certain features. The dealer had exactly what I wanted - except it was orange. I said “I’m not buying an orange car.” He kept saying “But it is exactly what you want.” Except it is orange. I ended up with a maroon Datsun.
Denim Blue exterior with a blond interior. Exactly what I wanted!
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Or China as Volvo is Chinese - but yes still built in Sweden…and S Carolina.
Just throwing in they are owned/controlled by Geely from China.
My car was built near Charleston SC.
Stay tuned. I think we will be picking it up on Monday!
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Yup, and the $4 Mio Bugatti is just a Volkswagen with a VW W16 engine.
Then there is their Lamborghini, Bentley,… and BMW’s Rolls Royce, Mini.
Premium marques are just investments in someone’s portfolio.
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My Volvo is Denim blue, with gray interior. It was exactly what I wanted, which is part of the reason I wound up with it a year before I planned to buy.
I know some people hate on Volvos, but my “customer service” story - I got the car, which had the bigger engine that I wanted, but was the “lesser” trim package which I liked more. During conversation I asked the salesperson what I was giving up by getting the lower model, and it was nothing I couldn’t live without.
2ish days after I took delivery of the car, I was out with a friend, and she mentioned the car having heated seats. I started thinking about it, and couldn’t picture heated seats. I texted the salesperson, who worked there 30 years, and he said they didn’t order cars without heated seats, so it must have them, but he’d check in the morning. Well, it didn’t have heated seats. They let me “return” that car, but let me drive it for a month until the one with heated seats arrived from Sweden. My car had already been sold, and the GM decided that instead of putting me in a rental I could just keep driving it.
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My soon to be new car has heated front and rear seats…but new to me…a heated steering wheel. It felt great today with the temps in the 20’s here.
It has a lot of bells and whistles that I will need to learn to navigate. But it also has voice activated Google Girl. So I can just speak “google girl, please turn the heat up to 72 degrees”…things like that.
I got to try a lot of these things today…and they were fun.
Definitely different than my 2012!
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My dad did this – over 50 years ago!
I think it’d be a blast – drive around Sweden for a while on vacation, then send the car home.
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My in-laws did something similar with a Saab. Drove it all around and it was shipped back here for them.
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Specially once you configure the startup settings to turn on the steering wheel heat, driver seat, and then activate the iPhone App. On a cold day, 15 minutes before you plan to leave you tell the app to have the car “acclimate”, e.g., by turning on heat, defroster, etc. – or on a hot day, the A/C will cool it down.
Another nice feature is to use the app to look up the destination address while sitting in your chair, and then send it to the car’s navigation system.
And if you had our moon roof uncovered in the morning to enjoy the sun, you’ll come back at noon and the car will have pulled the shade closed for you.
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I have an app???
OMG, your Volvo rep should have sat with you for half an hour and set you up.
Yes, there is a Volvo App that will tie to your car. It uses the Internet to connect to your car’s wireless modem. You can make sure if your car is locked when you’re 5 miles into your mountain hike, and lock it if you forgot, etc.
There is also the “find my car” feature, that shows your car’s location (as long as it’s not running.)
@thumper1 Uuuuhhh - I get it - you had been describing your test drive:
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I would like auto cooled seats—not too interested in heated, haha!
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It exists too
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My son, who lives in New Orleans, has cooling seats on his Subaru Outback; it was the key selling point!
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Hmmm, something to keep in mind! Not as important now that I rarely drive but I can see that mattering, especially in hot, long sunny drives!
They will. We don’t pick the car up until next Monday!
That sounds like fun!
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