Anybody else like IKEA furniture

[Johann]

BUT PLEASE no more praise for Volvo at one time they were great cars made to last for ever...

The reason they aren't the same may be - they haven't really been Volvos for years. Volvo car division was bought by Ford and later sold to a Chinese firm, Geely, which in the past has had a horrible reputation in the West. Last I heard, a few sub-$10,000 Geely cars were being imported into the US -- just a handful of dealers.

Years ago, Geely mopeds and small motorbikes were sold in the US. They got some terrible reviews. There was a "geely-sucks-dot-something" website with horror-stories. Here's an excerpt on the sale of Volvo (car division) to Ford and then to Geely, from the Volvo Wiki:

"In 1999, Volvo sold its car division Volvo Cars to Ford Motor Company for $6.45 billion. The Volvo trademark was shared between AB Volvo, where it is used on heavy vehicles, and the unit of Ford, where it was used on cars. Volvo stopped posting profits in 2005,[vague] and in 2008, Ford decided to sell its interest in Volvo Cars. In August 2010, Ford completed its sale of Volvo to the parent of Chinese motor manufacturer Geely Automobile for $1.8 billion"

Johann