Originally Posted By: javacontour
Do they pay for your airfare, or is it the savings over buying from dealer inventory essentially pay for your airfare?
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I think their program offers tags and insurance for up to 30 days, IIRC.
Volvo buys the ticket and the 30 days' worth of registration is correct and can be extended for a fee.
Originally Posted By: Quattro Pete
Originally Posted By: Kuato
An added benefit is that you can option out the vehicle with European specifications,
FYI, this is not true at least when it comes to BMW or MB.
Not sure if Volvo is an exception there. At the end of the day, the car has to meet US federal specifications, or else it could not be imported into the US. Also, US dealers are not trained on servicing/fixing of the Euro equipment/options typically, so this would pose additional challenge for the US dealers if they had to service such vehicles.
I forget where in the Volvo promotional material I read it but it did say you could order packages or combinations that are available in Europe - for instance manual transmission, since all Volvos sold in the US are now automatics. To be eligible for the program, the vehicles still come with US emissions and safety features intact, and otherwise meet US standards.