dave weil wrote:

On Sat, 05 Mar 2005 22:00:17 -0500, Howard Ferstler
wrote:

The latest issue of Consumer Reports has their annual
statistical result section. Volvos did not do all that well
when it comes to reliability. Not well at all.

I was speaking of older Volvos. They are now owned by the compay that
build your previous unreliable oil-eating car, the Mustang.

It was fast and fun for a while, and I had a lot of fun with
it. However, I am willing to admit that technologically and
in terms of solid reliability, the two Scion models I now
own leave it in the dust.

Volvos are certainly overengineered to a fault.

Maybe, but that overengineering appears to do little to
handle the reliability problems that the CR survey showed
up.

That could very well be true for current models. I'm sure that they're
still one of the safest brands around though.

Perhaps. But so is the Hummer and also the M1 tank, at least
if driven here on American roads. In Iraq, all bets are off.

Howard Ferstler