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Unsafe and Unpredictable: My Volvo EX90 Experience

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Re: Unsafe and Unpredictable: My Volvo EX90 Experience

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Post by breadwinner »

eckelhesten wrote: post #12

Volvo sadly no longer stands for Swedish quality and safety. What you’re buying is essentially an overpriced Chinese car with Volvo stickers. And I’m saying this as a Swede. Buy German cars, specifically within the Volkswagen auto group (Audi, VW, Skoda etc) if you want reliable quality.

I rented an Audi Q7 for a week recently. The drive quality of the car is excellent. But the software is terrible. Just getting CarPlay to work every time is a challenge. I will not be buying an Audi any time soon.

As more and more of the vehicle's experience becomes software controlled, manufacturers who don't have good software development teams are going to lose out. German companies don't seem to understand the growing importance of software, and they are happy to collectively develop the software [1] as opposed to seeing software as a key differentiator.

[1] https://www.electrive.com/2025/06/25/automotive-industry-lau...

Re: Unsafe and Unpredictable: My Volvo EX90 Experience

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Post by AlexandrB »

Xenoamorphous wrote: post #36
eckelhesten wrote: post #12

Volvo sadly no longer stands for Swedish quality and safety. What you’re buying is essentially an overpriced Chinese car with Volvo stickers. And I’m saying this as a Swede. Buy German cars, specifically within the Volkswagen auto group (Audi, VW, Skoda etc) if you want reliable quality.

Aren’t Japanese cars the gold standard of reliability? Or has something changed?

I don't know about the others, but Toyota has had some issues recently: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klyb2VrACZc&t=47s

Re: Unsafe and Unpredictable: My Volvo EX90 Experience

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Post by cpursley »

eckelhesten wrote: post #12

Volvo sadly no longer stands for Swedish quality and safety. What you’re buying is essentially an overpriced Chinese car with Volvo stickers. And I’m saying this as a Swede. Buy German cars, specifically within the Volkswagen auto group (Audi, VW, Skoda etc) if you want reliable quality.

Or just buy a Zeekr (if you want a non-Elon EV) - a much more technically impressive and better looking car than the Volvo or Tesla and it was designed in Europe:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvnZ0mTCBng

Re: Unsafe and Unpredictable: My Volvo EX90 Experience

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Post by kazinator »

eckelhesten wrote: post #12

Volvo sadly no longer stands for Swedish quality and safety. What you’re buying is essentially an overpriced Chinese car with Volvo stickers. And I’m saying this as a Swede. Buy German cars, specifically within the Volkswagen auto group (Audi, VW, Skoda etc) if you want reliable quality.

No longer, as of when?

I had a 1987 Volvo 760 in the nineties.

It was an unmitigated piece of shit.

Re: Unsafe and Unpredictable: My Volvo EX90 Experience

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Post by qualeed »

loloquwowndueo wrote: post #47
qualeed wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No, Quebec does but other provinces just rely on standard consumer protection laws. At least the last time I looked into it. I think some provinces have some additional vehicle-specific laws, but no comprehensive "lemon law" as such.

This person is in Quebec (or seems to be - highway 13 is in Montreal and the car was bought in the city of Mount Royal which is a suburb of Montreal (city status nitpicks notwithstanding, it’s unequivocally in Quebec). )

Good catch, I didn't put 2 and 2 together. I'm not positive what the eligibility requirements are to invoke it. Perhaps that's what they retained the lawyer for.

Re: Unsafe and Unpredictable: My Volvo EX90 Experience

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Post by cpursley »

denysvitali wrote: post #42
eckelhesten wrote: post #12

Volvo sadly no longer stands for Swedish quality and safety. What you’re buying is essentially an overpriced Chinese car with Volvo stickers. And I’m saying this as a Swede. Buy German cars, specifically within the Volkswagen auto group (Audi, VW, Skoda etc) if you want reliable quality.

> Buy German cars Take this with a grain of salt (since it's not first hand experience), but I have heard from friends that the quality of German cars has degraded significantly

From their already dismal reliability and insane maintenance costs?
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