The webmaster has had a long association with Volvo and has owned one for over 30 years. He still has an affection for the Volvo 122 and 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 and 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 and 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 8 years old, already has almost 200,000 kilometers 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.