Volvo sweet deal

[medbiker]

Volvo has a deal that gives you 10%+ off and a free trip to europe. If you go to europe to pick up you car they discount it heavily, pay your airfare, a night in a hotel, and pay for shipping the car back to your home.

Sweden charges a 25% export duty for new cars, so if you go to europe, drive the car for an hour, week, or up to six months, volvo can ship the "used" vehicle back to the states without the duty. Volvo "officially" gives you 8% off the msrp, but the msrp of the car my wife and I are picking up in june is 38,000, and we're only paying 30k. It was 10% off the base price, then they gave us the premium and climate packages for free, and the fancy headlights at cost. they pay your round trip airfare, one night hotel in Gotesborg (volvo hq), then we're taking the car to Germany and France for 10days, and dropping it off in either Paris or Nice, then we fly back and a few weeks later, thee car arrives at the port in Portland, OR (home).

they also pay for your registration and insurance while in europe.
one of my coworkers did it, just went for a long wkend to get the discount, without travelling.
cheaper if you get an '08, or a premade, but still discounted if it's custom built.

and best of all you're supporting an American car company (owned by Ford).
Ta

 

[Desslok]

Originally posted by: medbiker
Volvo has a deal that gives you 10%+ off and a free trip to europe. If you go to europe to pick up you car they discount it heavily, pay your airfare, a night in a hotel, and pay for shipping the car back to your home.

Sweden charges a 25% export duty for new cars, so if you go to europe, drive the car for an hour, week, or up to six months, volvo can ship the "used" vehicle back to the states without the duty. Volvo "officially" gives you 8% off the msrp, but the msrp of the car my wife and I are picking up in june is 38,000, and we're only paying 30k. It was 10% off the base price, then they gave us the premium and climate packages for free, and the fancy headlights at cost. they pay your round trip airfare, one night hotel in Gotesborg (volvo hq), then we're taking the car to Germany and France for 10days, and dropping it off in either Paris or Nice, then we fly back and a few weeks later, thee car arrives at the port in Portland, OR (home).

they also pay for your registration and insurance while in europe.
one of my coworkers did it, just went for a long wkend to get the discount, without travelling.
cheaper if you get an '08, or a premade, but still discounted if it's custom built.

and best of all you're supporting an American car company (owned by Ford).
Ta

All the European car makers do this, it works out to basically getting a free trip to Europe once you run all the numbers.

Ford may own Volvo but they are looking to offload them ASAP.

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[andylawcc]

and with Euro being so strong (other words, USD so weak), you aren't saving much after all.

It's still a deal though if you do plan to goto Europe.

 

[medbiker]

carwise, I'm not paying in euros, so I really do save money, but you're right, I'll probably be hurtin after a week travelling with the feeble dollar in my pocket.
I'm surprising my wife with the trip. she thinks we're getting a lease return vehicle. I'll tell her the day before, "pack a bag, find your passport".
Ford just unloaded Jaguar and Rover to the Tata family in India, at a loss of 7.5 Billion, yet I'd just read a report that said that rover was the only profitable division of Ford last year. I'm sure I'll need a nomex suit for this comment, but why can't the U.S. get it together and build a decent car and make a profit doing it? I'd rather be driving an American, well made, reliable, gas efficient vehicle. Not to say there aren't a few decent American cars, but nothing to compare to the asians. (we make some good trucks, and SUV's but they're all gas guzzlers). Flame on.

 

[Desslok]

Originally posted by: medbiker
carwise, I'm not paying in euros, so I really do save money, but you're right, I'll probably be hurtin after a week travelling with the feeble dollar in my pocket.
I'm surprising my wife with the trip. she thinks we're getting a lease return vehicle. I'll tell her the day before, "pack a bag, find your passport".
Ford just unloaded Jaguar and Rover to the Tata family in India, at a loss of 7.5 Billion, yet I'd just read a report that said that rover was the only profitable division of Ford last year. I'm sure I'll need a nomex suit for this comment, but why can't the U.S. get it together and build a decent car and make a profit doing it? I'd rather be driving an American, well made, reliable, gas efficient vehicle. Not to say there aren't a few decent American cars, but nothing to compare to the asians. (we make some good trucks, and SUV's but they're all gas guzzlers). Flame on.

If you want an American built car get a Subaru, Honda or Toyota. They all have plants in the US.

 

[Inspector Jihad]

i never did understand the 'buy american' mentality

 

[Fardor]

Originally posted by: Inspector Jihad
i never did understand the 'buy american' mentality

it's about having pride for your country. pride for BIG AMERICAN VALUES and BIG AMERICAN SUV'S.

I don't understand the "pride for your country" mentality or any part of it, and I never will. I will pride myself and things that I have affiliated myself to because I wanted to.

 

[angry hampster]

Originally posted by: Fardor

Originally posted by: Inspector Jihad
i never did understand the 'buy american' mentality

it's about having pride for your country. pride for BIG AMERICAN VALUES and BIG AMERICAN SUV'S.

I don't understand the "pride for your country" mentality or any part of it, and I never will. I will pride myself and things that I have affiliated myself to because I wanted to.

Putting money into american companies does tend to stimulate the economy. It's not all about pride.

 

[Thump553]

The European manufacturers have been doing this for years, if not decades. I lookede into the sme thing through Saab in 1996 and I know they had similar programs at least a decade before that.

I eventually didn't go for it (although the trip, including a tour of the Saab plant sounded really nice) because of the time it took to get the car back here. Back then I think it was as long as two months-is it the same delay now? Also, does your warranty continue to run while the car is on the boat? (I assume you are getting a US warranty, if not that would be a deal killer right there).

Anyway, congrats on the new car and vacation.

Now if Toyota would do this deal with Japan, I'd hop on it.

 

[Inspector Jihad]

Originally posted by: angry hampster

Originally posted by: Fardor

Originally posted by: Inspector Jihad
i never did understand the 'buy american' mentality

it's about having pride for your country. pride for BIG AMERICAN VALUES and BIG AMERICAN SUV'S.

I don't understand the "pride for your country" mentality or any part of it, and I never will. I will pride myself and things that I have affiliated myself to because I wanted to.

Putting money into american companies does tend to stimulate the economy. It's not all about pride.

i think supporting the superior competition will compel the american companies to produce better cars which would lead to better overall growth.

 

[Insomniator]

My dad and I are glad that our subaru forester is the only subaru not made in America.

Anyway I may be in the market for a new V50 in the upcoming months and this sounds like a great idea...

 

[nakedfrog]

Hm, I want to take a trip to Europe in the next five years, and this might just be the ticket.

 

[tracerbullet]

Interesting, the C30 is a cool little car. Could make this a real consideration next year when I'm looking to buy. Thanks for this info, it's news to me.

 

[cparent]

Originally posted by: Inspector Jihad

Originally posted by: angry hampster

Originally posted by: Fardor

Originally posted by: Inspector Jihad
i never did understand the 'buy american' mentality

it's about having pride for your country. pride for BIG AMERICAN VALUES and BIG AMERICAN SUV'S.

I don't understand the "pride for your country" mentality or any part of it, and I never will. I will pride myself and things that I have affiliated myself to because I wanted to.

Putting money into american companies does tend to stimulate the economy. It's not all about pride.

i think supporting the superior competition will compel the american companies to produce better cars which would lead to better overall growth.

Allow me to help. This actually pertains to the hot deal in that it speaks of car quality.

When you buy an american designed and made car, you are supporting the approx 20+ million people that work in the auto industry in the U.S., which in turn watch movies (keeps california in business), buy toothpaste (keeps cincinatti in business), keep money in banks (keeps chicago in business), and buy stocks (keeps new york in business).....etc, etc, etc.

When you buy a "foreign" car made in the U.S., there's approx 1/10th the staff that make 1/2 the pay building that product. The profits and highest paying jobs are still over seas. Therefore the entire country hurts. (unless you live in another country)

When you buy a truly imported car, you are basically only supporting a car salesman, and the porting industry in your local economy.

Also, you are correct in that supporting "superior competition" did get the big 3 to improve quality. That's why the big 3 now, once again make superior cars over foreign cars. The hard part will be getting the ignorant public to notice and persuade public opinion. 3 of 5 of the most dependable name plates last year are Big 3 companies. Japanese and asian quality falling far behind U.S. companies. Suzuki, Isuzu, Mazda, Nissan and mitsubishi are more or less some of the worst cars you can buy now. Volvo lines up with mitsubishi.

All of this according to JD power VDS of 2007. not me.

(incoming story on how someone had a 1982 chrysler kcar and the hub cap fell off in 1983 therefore all chrysler cars suck)

 

[medbiker]

My coworker who did it last year said the car took 6 wks to get from sweden to Portland, OR. I don't know if the warranty is already running, I imagine it is. It is an american warranty. You're actually buying it from your local dealership, just picking it up abroad.

I'm really not a big jingoist, just that I'd rather stimulate the economy here. Along the same lines as my concerns over education; in the 80's US citizens applied for 90% of the U.S. Patents, and something like 70% of the world's patents, and now it's60% of U.S. and much less of the world's patents. Obviously, this is because we used to attract the world's best and brightest who then made innovations in the US, not b/c americans were brighter or that much better educated. But in the past, the education system was better, and the foreign "b and b" stayed and became citizens. now, they go home and get rich in their own countries. We no longer make it easy for them to stay b/c they might be out to get us. Good thing we spent $300,000,000,000 in Iraq so far, b/c we clearly didn't need it in the U.S. for things like education or infrastructure. I'd say it was money well spent (sort of, anyway) if it had stimulated the economy, but it seems like all the big players made money off the contracts then scarpered off abroad to avoid taxation.

 

[ProfJohn]

I was looking at getting a C30 this way... but bought the G35 instead...

It is a neat plan though and like someone said the amount of money you save is about equal to what you will spend in Europe.

Check into it further though because the up front money is quite a bit. They told me I would need a $4000 deposit on the car when it was ordered, which is a ways before you can go get it. Also you have to wrap up the whole deal before you leave (pay for the car.) Which means if you have to trade your current car in to get a bank loan you have to figure out what to do in the 10 weeks between when you leave Europe and your car shows up at the dealer.

Even if you don't have to trade your car in you would have to make car payments on two cars for that 10 week period since you would be paying for a car that is on transit and the car you owned before.

Basically, if you are NOT tight on cash it is a great idea, but if you are tight on cash it is not such a good program.

 

[rockyct]

Originally posted by: cparent

Originally posted by: Inspector Jihad

Originally posted by: angry hampster

Originally posted by: Fardor

Originally posted by: Inspector Jihad
i never did understand the 'buy american' mentality

it's about having pride for your country. pride for BIG AMERICAN VALUES and BIG AMERICAN SUV'S.

I don't understand the "pride for your country" mentality or any part of it, and I never will. I will pride myself and things that I have affiliated myself to because I wanted to.

Putting money into american companies does tend to stimulate the economy. It's not all about pride.

i think supporting the superior competition will compel the american companies to produce better cars which would lead to better overall growth.

Allow me to help. This actually pertains to the hot deal in that it speaks of car quality.

When you buy an american designed and made car, you are supporting the approx 20+ million people that work in the auto industry in the U.S., which in turn watch movies (keeps california in business), buy toothpaste (keeps cincinatti in business), keep money in banks (keeps chicago in business), and buy stocks (keeps new york in business).....etc, etc, etc.

When you buy a "foreign" car made in the U.S., there's approx 1/10th the staff that make 1/2 the pay building that product. The profits and highest paying jobs are still over seas. Therefore the entire country hurts. (unless you live in another country)

When you buy a truly imported car, you are basically only supporting a car salesman, and the porting industry in your local economy.

Also, you are correct in that supporting "superior competition" did get the big 3 to improve quality. That's why the big 3 now, once again make superior cars over foreign cars. The hard part will be getting the ignorant public to notice and persuade public opinion. 3 of 5 of the most dependable name plates last year are Big 3 companies. Japanese and asian quality falling far behind U.S. companies. Suzuki, Isuzu, Mazda, Nissan and mitsubishi are more or less some of the worst cars you can buy now. Volvo lines up with mitsubishi.

All of this according to JD power VDS of 2007. not me.

(incoming story on how someone had a 1982 chrysler kcar and the hub cap fell off in 1983 therefore all chrysler cars suck)

Generally, you can't make a blanket statement that X brands are always reliable and Y brands will break down in six months. There are exceptions, but usually it depends on the vehicle. Mazda makes the very reliable Mazda3, Nissan the Xterra, Mitsubishi the Outlander, etc. The Big 3 do make reliable cars right now, but it's still a while before they are as respected as Honda and Toyota.

 

[996GT2]

Originally posted by: rockyct

Originally posted by: cparent

Originally posted by: Inspector Jihad

Originally posted by: angry hampster

Originally posted by: Fardor

Originally posted by: Inspector Jihad
i never did understand the 'buy american' mentality

it's about having pride for your country. pride for BIG AMERICAN VALUES and BIG AMERICAN SUV'S.

I don't understand the "pride for your country" mentality or any part of it, and I never will. I will pride myself and things that I have affiliated myself to because I wanted to.

Putting money into american companies does tend to stimulate the economy. It's not all about pride.

i think supporting the superior competition will compel the american companies to produce better cars which would lead to better overall growth.

Allow me to help. This actually pertains to the hot deal in that it speaks of car quality.

When you buy an american designed and made car, you are supporting the approx 20+ million people that work in the auto industry in the U.S., which in turn watch movies (keeps california in business), buy toothpaste (keeps cincinatti in business), keep money in banks (keeps chicago in business), and buy stocks (keeps new york in business).....etc, etc, etc.

When you buy a "foreign" car made in the U.S., there's approx 1/10th the staff that make 1/2 the pay building that product. The profits and highest paying jobs are still over seas. Therefore the entire country hurts. (unless you live in another country)

When you buy a truly imported car, you are basically only supporting a car salesman, and the porting industry in your local economy.

Also, you are correct in that supporting "superior competition" did get the big 3 to improve quality. That's why the big 3 now, once again make superior cars over foreign cars. The hard part will be getting the ignorant public to notice and persuade public opinion. 3 of 5 of the most dependable name plates last year are Big 3 companies. Japanese and asian quality falling far behind U.S. companies. Suzuki, Isuzu, Mazda, Nissan and mitsubishi are more or less some of the worst cars you can buy now. Volvo lines up with mitsubishi.

All of this according to JD power VDS of 2007. not me.

(incoming story on how someone had a 1982 chrysler kcar and the hub cap fell off in 1983 therefore all chrysler cars suck)

Generally, you can't make a blanket statement that X brands are always reliable and Y brands will break down in six months. There are exceptions, but usually it depends on the vehicle. Mazda makes the very reliable Mazda3, Nissan the Xterra, Mitsubishi the Outlander, etc. The Big 3 do make reliable cars right now, but it's still a while before they are as respected as Honda and Toyota.

lol why did you even waste the time to write a thought out reply to cparent's post? He's the idiot dumb enough to believe that JD Power reviews are something OTHER than printed garbage...just let him buy whatever the hell he wants to buy while the rest of us move on with life.

 

[wirelessenabled]

Originally posted by: cparent

Originally posted by: Inspector Jihad

Originally posted by: angry hampster

Originally posted by: Fardor

Originally posted by: Inspector Jihad
i never did understand the 'buy american' mentality

it's about having pride for your country. pride for BIG AMERICAN VALUES and BIG AMERICAN SUV'S.

I don't understand the "pride for your country" mentality or any part of it, and I never will. I will pride myself and things that I have affiliated myself to because I wanted to.

Putting money into american companies does tend to stimulate the economy. It's not all about pride.

i think supporting the superior competition will compel the american companies to produce better cars which would lead to better overall growth.

Allow me to help. This actually pertains to the hot deal in that it speaks of car quality.

When you buy an american designed and made car, you are supporting the approx 20+ million people that work in the auto industry in the U.S., which in turn watch movies (keeps california in business), buy toothpaste (keeps cincinatti in business), keep money in banks (keeps chicago in business), and buy stocks (keeps new york in business).....etc, etc, etc.

When you buy a "foreign" car made in the U.S., there's approx 1/10th the staff that make 1/2 the pay building that product. The profits and highest paying jobs are still over seas. Therefore the entire country hurts. (unless you live in another country)

When you buy a truly imported car, you are basically only supporting a car salesman, and the porting industry in your local economy.

Also, you are correct in that supporting "superior competition" did get the big 3 to improve quality. That's why the big 3 now, once again make superior cars over foreign cars. The hard part will be getting the ignorant public to notice and persuade public opinion. 3 of 5 of the most dependable name plates last year are Big 3 companies. Japanese and asian quality falling far behind U.S. companies. Suzuki, Isuzu, Mazda, Nissan and mitsubishi are more or less some of the worst cars you can buy now. Volvo lines up with mitsubishi.

All of this according to JD power VDS of 2007. not me.

(incoming story on how someone had a 1982 chrysler kcar and the hub cap fell off in 1983 therefore all chrysler cars suck)

Huh!!!

Seems to me that about 1 million folks are employed in the US auto mfg industry check here and here.

 

[Inspector Jihad]

Originally posted by: cparent

Originally posted by: Inspector Jihad

Originally posted by: angry hampster

Originally posted by: Fardor

Originally posted by: Inspector Jihad
i never did understand the 'buy american' mentality

it's about having pride for your country. pride for BIG AMERICAN VALUES and BIG AMERICAN SUV'S.

I don't understand the "pride for your country" mentality or any part of it, and I never will. I will pride myself and things that I have affiliated myself to because I wanted to.

Putting money into american companies does tend to stimulate the economy. It's not all about pride.

i think supporting the superior competition will compel the american companies to produce better cars which would lead to better overall growth.

Allow me to help. This actually pertains to the hot deal in that it speaks of car quality.

When you buy an american designed and made car, you are supporting the approx 20+ million people that work in the auto industry in the U.S., which in turn watch movies (keeps california in business), buy toothpaste (keeps cincinatti in business), keep money in banks (keeps chicago in business), and buy stocks (keeps new york in business).....etc, etc, etc.

When you buy a "foreign" car made in the U.S., there's approx 1/10th the staff that make 1/2 the pay building that product. The profits and highest paying jobs are still over seas. Therefore the entire country hurts. (unless you live in another country)

When you buy a truly imported car, you are basically only supporting a car salesman, and the porting industry in your local economy.

Also, you are correct in that supporting "superior competition" did get the big 3 to improve quality. That's why the big 3 now, once again make superior cars over foreign cars. The hard part will be getting the ignorant public to notice and persuade public opinion. 3 of 5 of the most dependable name plates last year are Big 3 companies. Japanese and asian quality falling far behind U.S. companies. Suzuki, Isuzu, Mazda, Nissan and mitsubishi are more or less some of the worst cars you can buy now. Volvo lines up with mitsubishi.

All of this according to JD power VDS of 2007. not me.

(incoming story on how someone had a 1982 chrysler kcar and the hub cap fell off in 1983 therefore all chrysler cars suck)

that rhetoric made me lol

 

[JTsyo]

They allow you to drive left sided cars in Europe?

 

[cparent]

Originally posted by: wirelessenabled

Originally posted by: cparent

Originally posted by: Inspector Jihad

Originally posted by: angry hampster

Originally posted by: Fardor

Originally posted by: Inspector Jihad
i never did understand the 'buy american' mentality

it's about having pride for your country. pride for BIG AMERICAN VALUES and BIG AMERICAN SUV'S.

I don't understand the "pride for your country" mentality or any part of it, and I never will. I will pride myself and things that I have affiliated myself to because I wanted to.

Putting money into american companies does tend to stimulate the economy. It's not all about pride.

i think supporting the superior competition will compel the american companies to produce better cars which would lead to better overall growth.

Allow me to help. This actually pertains to the hot deal in that it speaks of car quality.

When you buy an american designed and made car, you are supporting the approx 20+ million people that work in the auto industry in the U.S., which in turn watch movies (keeps california in business), buy toothpaste (keeps cincinatti in business), keep money in banks (keeps chicago in business), and buy stocks (keeps new york in business).....etc, etc, etc.

When you buy a "foreign" car made in the U.S., there's approx 1/10th the staff that make 1/2 the pay building that product. The profits and highest paying jobs are still over seas. Therefore the entire country hurts. (unless you live in another country)

When you buy a truly imported car, you are basically only supporting a car salesman, and the porting industry in your local economy.

Also, you are correct in that supporting "superior competition" did get the big 3 to improve quality. That's why the big 3 now, once again make superior cars over foreign cars. The hard part will be getting the ignorant public to notice and persuade public opinion. 3 of 5 of the most dependable name plates last year are Big 3 companies. Japanese and asian quality falling far behind U.S. companies. Suzuki, Isuzu, Mazda, Nissan and mitsubishi are more or less some of the worst cars you can buy now. Volvo lines up with mitsubishi.

All of this according to JD power VDS of 2007. not me.

(incoming story on how someone had a 1982 chrysler kcar and the hub cap fell off in 1983 therefore all chrysler cars suck)

Huh!!!

Seems to me that about 1 million folks are employed in the US auto mfg industry check here and here.

1 million directly for the companies themselves. the auto industry is way larger than the companies directly. suppliers, retail, etc.

 

[cparent]

Originally posted by: 996GT2

Originally posted by: rockyct

Originally posted by: cparent

Originally posted by: Inspector Jihad

Originally posted by: angry hampster

Originally posted by: Fardor

Originally posted by: Inspector Jihad
i never did understand the 'buy american' mentality

it's about having pride for your country. pride for BIG AMERICAN VALUES and BIG AMERICAN SUV'S.

I don't understand the "pride for your country" mentality or any part of it, and I never will. I will pride myself and things that I have affiliated myself to because I wanted to.

Putting money into american companies does tend to stimulate the economy. It's not all about pride.

i think supporting the superior competition will compel the american companies to produce better cars which would lead to better overall growth.

Allow me to help. This actually pertains to the hot deal in that it speaks of car quality.

When you buy an american designed and made car, you are supporting the approx 20+ million people that work in the auto industry in the U.S., which in turn watch movies (keeps california in business), buy toothpaste (keeps cincinatti in business), keep money in banks (keeps chicago in business), and buy stocks (keeps new york in business).....etc, etc, etc.

When you buy a "foreign" car made in the U.S., there's approx 1/10th the staff that make 1/2 the pay building that product. The profits and highest paying jobs are still over seas. Therefore the entire country hurts. (unless you live in another country)

When you buy a truly imported car, you are basically only supporting a car salesman, and the porting industry in your local economy.

Also, you are correct in that supporting "superior competition" did get the big 3 to improve quality. That's why the big 3 now, once again make superior cars over foreign cars. The hard part will be getting the ignorant public to notice and persuade public opinion. 3 of 5 of the most dependable name plates last year are Big 3 companies. Japanese and asian quality falling far behind U.S. companies. Suzuki, Isuzu, Mazda, Nissan and mitsubishi are more or less some of the worst cars you can buy now. Volvo lines up with mitsubishi.

All of this according to JD power VDS of 2007. not me.

(incoming story on how someone had a 1982 chrysler kcar and the hub cap fell off in 1983 therefore all chrysler cars suck)

Generally, you can't make a blanket statement that X brands are always reliable and Y brands will break down in six months. There are exceptions, but usually it depends on the vehicle. Mazda makes the very reliable Mazda3, Nissan the Xterra, Mitsubishi the Outlander, etc. The Big 3 do make reliable cars right now, but it's still a while before they are as respected as Honda and Toyota.

lol why did you even waste the time to write a thought out reply to cparent's post? He's the idiot dumb enough to believe that JD Power reviews are something OTHER than printed garbage...just let him buy whatever the hell he wants to buy while the rest of us move on with life.

Translation of above response: Someone posted facts that make sense for the U.S. and are backed up by a 3rd party companies information, and I'm just trolling and wont add anything or actually dispute anything with facts, because, well, that's what trolls do.

 

[cparent]

Originally posted by: Inspector Jihad
that rhetoric made me lol

that word you use. I do not think it means what you think it means.

 

[nakedfrog]

Originally posted by: JTsyo
They allow you to drive left sided cars in Europe?

The only European country that drives on the wrong side of the road is England.