Re: Volvo competing with Audi using Subaru product planning?!

[Tom Nas <tnas@euronet.nl>]

"Sean Ford" <sean@nwh.org> wrote:

> Over the weekend I came across a Volvo V70 "Cross Country" wagon. For all
>>intents and purposes, the Cross County appears to be a slightly classier
>Subaru >Outback with the requisite SUV styling (or lack thereof) cues
>including raising >the ride height even higher than is necessary. Is this
>a US only model? Have >we here in the States gone so SUV-wacko that we
>want all of our vehicles to >display some retarded ancestry to trucks? I
>just can't see this Volvo playing >in the worldwide markets.

Nope, we have it here, too. Its ride height has been raised by ONE INCH
(that's gonna do a lot for ground clearance). Top Gear magazine was also
clueless as to whom this car might appeal.
The Subarus IMO have some cred as off-road vehicles. The Volvo is just a
(albeit well-built) wannabe, and I still don't like their Ikea-sourced
interior stuff.
But then again, de gustibus non est disputandum...

Tom

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