Well, I wasn't going to say she'd be wrong on *that*.
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.
[link|mailto:MyUserId@MyISP.CountryCode|Christian R. Conrad]
(I live in Finland, and my e-mail in-box is at the Saunalahti company.)
Your lies are of Microsoftian Scale and boring to boot. Your 'depression' may be the closest you ever come to recognizing truth: you have no 'inferiority complex', you are inferior - and something inside you recognizes this. - [link|http://z.iwethey.org/forums/render/content/show?contentid=71575|Ashton Brown]
