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college professor values?
A buddy of mine, who bought an '02 Outback Sport over the weekend, just e-mailed this to me:
(From a recent article in the New York Times) "Volvos have become more plush and bourgeois, which is a Republican thing to be," said Mickey Kaus, a dual expert in politics and cars as the author of the Kausfiles and Gearbox columns for Slate. "Subaru is the new Volvo - that is, it is what Volvos used to be: trusty, rugged, inexpensive, unpretentious, performs well, maybe a bit ugly. You don't buy it because you want to show you have money; you buy it because you have college-professor values. dcb |
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That's where I get that!
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Volvo definitely has a different reputation on your side of the atlantic.
Over here they're seen as big slow clumsy cars driven by boring "safety concious" people who clog up the roads driving at 10 under the limit. Although the cars have improved a lot in recent years, it's the same people who buy them. I just know somebody is going to disagree with me. |
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yeah same as here, it stands for safety, overweight, and driveable only for those above 50 yrs old... old volvos are used here in agriculture, they fill them with crops like potato boxes, apples, oranges.... so everytime i hear volvo i think of heavy duty vehicules...
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