It's just that those are orthogonal dimensions to me; status- vs non-status-hood is one thing, fambly- vs non-fambly-ship another. Like, you gets your non-status fambly cars (Subaru wagon), your status fambly cars (Mercedes), your status non-fambly cars (Porsche), and your non-status non-fambly cars (Huyndai SCoupe)... Volvos have become "status" here too, nowadays -- just by dubious virtue of being so damn expensive. :-(
Oh, but you're still half right: Ford makes cars under that name in Europe, and they're cheaper than Volvos (which is Ford-owned nowadays, BTW), so Fords are actually more common than Volvos here in .fi... But European-built GM cars are called Opel (or Vauxhall when the steering wheel is on the wrong side, or SAAB when they're a bit more expensive), not Chevy, so Volvos are still a heckofalot more common than Chevys.