The webmaster has had a long association with Volvo & has owned one for about 40 years. He still has an affection for the Volvo 122 & 544 models, now both long departed, alas. Both were fine family cars that doubled as very sporting rally cars. There is many a road in Quebec & Northern Vermont that the webmaster has travelled in all hours of the day or night - either as a navigator in rally competition or later laying out or otherwise organising automobile rallies. Exciting days they were, indeed.

The car is not the cheapest in the world by a long shot. Not a paid advertisement for Volvo, but to this day the webmaster feels safer in a Volvo than in most any other car. That, to me, is a real value. And in this day & age of everything being 'throwaway', they do last, or they have lasted for me. The last one I owned rusted out with 350,000 km on the clock and the current version, just a youngster of 13 years old, already has more than that on it. I saw an article recently where one Volvo owner had I think over a million kilometers on his. I must have treated mine badly! But maybe he did not experience the road salt of a Canadian winter! But, now see here.