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Your comment has confirmation bias written all over it. How can you be so sure that the car wouldn't have had problems if it had been manufactured in Europe? Vo
by olalonde 11y ago
Your comment has confirmation bias written all over it. How can you be so sure that the car wouldn't have had problems if it had been manufactured in Europe? Volvo car sales have been going up globally since the acquisition though you might be right about Ithaca, NY.
Nationality/"made in" bias does have some effect on purchasing behaviours but I doubt the seemingly strong effect it has on you is representative.
- rm_-rf_slash 11y agoIt's not confirmation bias, it's literally engineering. My XC70 and every Volvo our family had before it (3, mind you) were all built outside of China and each worked excellently for over a decade. In fact you can still see old Volvos proudly plodding around Ithaca, though not so much the new ones. A couple of years after buying the (Chinese-built) S80 it was clearly suffering from repeat electrical defects that were expensive and regularly required. I'm not sure how that fact can be any less biased.