That's A Nice Looking Volvo Mate.......

[66yostagea]

Good to make a pair of Volgeas.

[shane344]

Dropping my new rims of at local tyre joint for tyre fittage.

Young tyre monkey says, 'are these for your Honda'.

Too mortified for an explanation I just said yep.

[dasic1]

I asked a mechanic about fitting some suspension bushes on Friday and he starts explaining that for the Volvo it will probable be cheaper to buy replacement arms. He thought I was joking so went out to cheek

[Commsman]

^ Pure gold!

[slippylotion]

Dropped some stuff off at a local council hazardous waste station and 6-8 workers trying to work out what type of car I was driving. One said its a Volvo so I told him it's a Nissan stagea and as I drive out I could here them all yelling out to each other "it's a Nissan stagea"

Very funny. Oh and they said it looked good. ?

[Sunkist]

go volvo go

actually pretty cool

[PN-Mad]

So many " what the f is that........ Volvo ?" comments in the drag staging lanes last night. I just smiled and drove on.

[GTR260]

Was at the wreckers the other day looking for a rb30 and the bloke that worked there spotted my car and said " that's the nicest volvo ive seen in a while, looks tough" i laughed and told him it was a nissan! He didn't believe me

[Daleo]

go volvo go

actually pretty cool

Lol, I love that Amazon. I believe that's a 760 twin cam motor, so there can't be too much wrong there.

In the article I read about it; the builder actually works for Koeniggsegg; which certainly explains the origin of some of the components, and also the build quality.

[Troppo]

I've owned my Stagea for 2 weeks now and I was at the mechanics today using there hoist and one of the guys there said to one of my mates "since when has he owned a Volvo". Wow it didn't take long for the Volvo comment!

[Pft shh 89]

i got told mine was a holden the other day, i was like nah it's a nissan, and the bloke was like so why do you have a holden badge on the front, i gave up, had gotten my ticket off him so i just drove in and left him standing there confused.

[pbk1776]

i got told mine was a holden the other day, i was like nah it's a nissan, and the bloke was like so why do you have a holden badge on the front, i gave up, had gotten my ticket off him so i just drove in and left him standing there confused.

you're not the one mate - I was also told that my ARX was one of those commodore wagon with arches

[Pft shh 89]

you're not the one mate - I was also told that my ARX was one of those commodore wagon with arches

haha as is in my pic << mine is a c34 so it doesn't even resemble anything holden has ever made, i can sort of understand being the wheel arches are something common to the holdens but even then the rest of ur ARX's are completely different

[sky^rkt]

went to that jdm meet yesterday.. bout 20 people called the stagea a volvo.. and my mates galant a magna hahahha

[ChrisB]

Went to the snow at Lake Mountain today.

There was a big sign in Marysville stating that snow chains must be carried.

I pulled up outside the store to enquire if i actually needed them.

A nice lady in charge was standing outside the front of the store and she saw me pull up.

She said " What kind of a car is it? I dont need to know the make, I know it's a Volvo, but is it all wheel drive or four wheel drive?"

I said that it was all wheel drive, so i didn't need the snow chains.

By the way, the Snow button is great.

Edited July 2, 2012 by ChrisB

[atomaly]

i had the same experience with snow chains... heading up to falls creek few weeks ago.

'so what model volvo is that??' .... i just laughed... i said have a closer look mate. then he's like... nah i can tell its a volvo cos of the wheel arches.. >.<

[Seano350GT]

Haha brilliant, my dad calls my V35 "a poor mans Merc".. he seems to get a lot of humour out of it.

But as for people mistaking it for something else, i've never once had someone ask me what it is but i have had people gawking around the car to find a badge (only got the Nissan badge in the front grille and 350GT on the back)

[sky^rkt]

id rather own a v35 than a merc ill tell u that with all the shit that goes wrong with them

[zei20l]

you rekon mercs are more reliable than V35s?

[Sunkist]

you rekon mercs are more reliable than V35s?

Lol. No. No they aren't.