If you are like me, Volvo's marketing department isn't interested in you. Do most of these qualities describe you?

1) You would NEVER consider buying a brand new car unless you won the lottery.
2) When you look at used cars, anything newer than 10 years is not appealing, either mechanically or visually.
3) You'd rather spend a whole weekend searching junkyards and fabricating your own parts than pay the dealer for an overpriced replacement.
4) Instead of scheming to afford a new AWD sport-ute Folvo, do you instead daydream of a conversation with your fair-weather-only-driving neighbor, who has a mint-condition 200/700/900 with 100,000 miles on the clock, and the conversation starts like this: "Well it has alot of miles on it since I bought it new in 93, and it probably isn't worth much these days, -- but you seem pretty handy, maybe you can use it for parts..."
5) When the topic of RWD vs FWD in the snow comes up, you have an overwhelming urge to belittle the driving skills of the FW-Driving person to whom you're talking.
6) You think that computers have no place in a car, with the only possible exception being the audio system.

Granted, I'm generalizing, but I think this describes a lot of the RWD crowd. We are not generally the picture of the modern luxury-car-buying population. It only makes sense that they do not design cars for us.
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'92 245 5-speed, '92 944 GL auto