that’s a high effort response, the reason I brought up the change of ownership was to highlight that the company now has a parent company so this person’s refund claims are bouncing all over the place from Canada to Sweden to China which would make it harder to pin down, the actual cars are still designed in Sweden so they are European cars even though a chinese company owns them, it would be like saying riot games is a chinese company although having a parent company has certainly affected the quality & direction of the cars

The whole system just fucked this person over. A European car brand gets bought by a Chinese company so there’s already much less accountability to this one customer than if they had bought an American car (I know they are Canadian, but still). And with the car dealership model in North America and a lot of the rest of the world, it’s not like the dealership can just switch the cars they sell, so they have no leverage to do anything other than close up shop and have dozens of people lose their jobs if the cars start getting crappier like Volvos have been. I think the moral of the story is if you live in North America, don’t buy European cars, it’s not worth it, just buy North American cars or Asian cars, you will have a much easier time getting them fixed and having your problems dealt with.

That did he write his thesis on, The Giver?

I wouldn’t post to any community they moderate anyways, one of the biggest rage baiters on lemmy