{"id":984,"date":"2007-04-06T10:19:13","date_gmt":"2007-04-06T09:19:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mindwork.net\/myblog\/?p=984"},"modified":"2007-04-06T10:20:00","modified_gmt":"2007-04-06T09:20:00","slug":"why-i-wont-buy-a-volvo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mindwork.net\/myblog\/?p=984","title":{"rendered":"Why I won&#8217;t buy a Volvo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I hardly ever blog about what I consider &#8220;trivial&#8221; things, but this one is just too perfect: As my tough little Skoda is running near the end of its lifecycle I&#8217;m slowly starting to think about working on a replacement. So the new Volvo C30 (I&#8217;ve always been fond of Scandinavian cars..) seemed to perfectly fit. On Tuesday I called my local Volvo Dealer, Denzel Klagenfurt. Actually I didn&#8217;t just call anyone but their head salesman, Mr. K. whom I asked for a test drive for a weekend. &#8220;No problem, I will call you back latest tomorrow.&#8221; Until now there has been no call back. Now this week our newspaper published a ranking of &#8220;trust&#8221; Austrians put into various kinds of professionals: doctors, journalists, car salesmen&#8230; &#8211; funny enough car salesmen ranked below journalists. I finally understand why: I am willing to spend 20.000+ Euro on a new car. But appearantly Volvo does not deem that enough for proper customer service. You could argue now, that a brand should never be made responsible for the dealer selling it. True, Volvos are still great cars. But then again experience tells me that during the course of my car&#8217;s lifecycle I will need my dealer&#8217;s service time after time. And I am not willing to tak any risks. So, no Volvo. Sorry.<\/p>\n<p>I believe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hardly ever blog about what I consider &#8220;trivial&#8221; things, but this one is just too perfect: As my tough little Skoda is running near the end of its lifecycle I&#8217;m slowly starting to think about working on a replacement. So the new Volvo C30 (I&#8217;ve always been fond of Scandinavian cars..) seemed to perfectly&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-concerning-hobbits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mindwork.net\/myblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mindwork.net\/myblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mindwork.net\/myblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mindwork.net\/myblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mindwork.net\/myblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mindwork.net\/myblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mindwork.net\/myblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mindwork.net\/myblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mindwork.net\/myblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}