Reply #56: I have no idea why they were bought, or why they were sold, but

[Tansy_Gold]

I've heard other stories about the remarkable longevity of Volvos and maybe GM didn't want the word to get around? Maybe they were intent on trashing it, making it a clone, in terms of quality, of the Corvair?

It might be interesting -- though I'm sure some enterprising investigative journalist has already done so -- to look at the history of the growth of these now lumbering behemoths like GM, to determine at what point and for what reasons everything started to go wrong. Rather than merely throwing more and more and more of our children's and grand-children's money down the various ratholes.

Good threads, Demeter. Far too much for me to read everything on a "working" holiday week-end -- not paid work, but the mega-chore of CLEANING MY HOUSE (you know what that's like!) and trying to organize some of my collected shit -- but I grab an article or essay or two whenever I need to take a break from the dusting and mopping.

Hope you had a happy holly day and aren't getting too much bad weather!


Tansy Gold, in sunny (as soon as the sun gets up) but cool (frost when the dogs went out the first time at 5:15) Arizona