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Don't freak out too much cat3.
You're not buying a Chinese car at all - you're buying a car that was engineered by Ford and Mazda and Volvo engineers in Cologne Germany, designed in Gothenburg Sweden, and built in Ghent Belgium.
Even if Geely does become Volvo's owner it will never make your car Chinese.
That said you may be looking at dealing with a Chinese owned/run company for support/service in the future. It's certainly nice to think they won't interfere wtih Volvo too much...
Every said "the sky is falling" when Ford bought Volvo too.
I admit that this is substantially different than the Ford deal (Volvo would be going to a brand new car company rather than a seasoned one). Nonetheless, if Geely has money and leaves Volvo to it's own devices I think they'll be fine, maybe even better in the long run.
I actually was a big fan of the platform sharing with Ford and Mazda, but now that Mazda is already mostly out of the picture, I don't think Volvo would miss Ford all that much, except for maybe providing the funding for the tech pet projects (like cross-town traffic) that Ford will also want to use - the research money might dry up a bit.
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