Bought a new top of the line 2001 C70 Volvo HPT turbo coupe, for my wife in December 2000, a slick firemist red one too. Cost $39,000, too from the dealer, just off the boat from Sweden. 7 miles on the clock, it was really new.

Haggled the dealer to death over the $42k MSRP. Got out of there utterly exhausted at about 10pm, tired and starving and worn out. Saw a little Viet restaurant called "La Petite Camille" that was still open so late, and we dived in there. Turns out it is "THE" place to go for rich viets south of San Francisco, the parking lot is always full of of new Mercedes and BMWs. I still usually go there when I am in SF, often..

So, she decided on a moniker:

We named the car ... Camille"

What a looker it was, too, and Volvo has the best seats in the business.


Buying it was a tragic mistake. Only kept it a year, it was a total lemon, squeaks and a leaky windshield that even the dealer finally gave up on. It was ALWAYS at the dealer; finally we gave up too, and hired a LEMON LAW attorney and Volvo wound up buying it back without a fight, because I had documented EVRY phone call and dealer attempt to fix its problems over more than a year, and in CA. over 5x for the same problem and it is ipso facto a LEMON, and we got back the entire price back for it.

Bu oh, I felt bad the rainy SF day in early 2002 when I drove it for the very last time, back to the dealer we'd selected in SF to give her up. Such a beautiful interior and outside color. The Volvo factory rep said he had never seen such a coean kept up year old car. Only touched 7,000 miles and still looked new. Though the dealer techs had sort of trashed it when they worked on it, coffee dumped here and there in the interior. I walked back to Market street in the rain and took the bus home.


I hate fwd and the turbo lag and torque steer was awful on that car.


A year or so later, amazingly, Camille turned up for sale on ebay; In Montvale New Jersey!! The vin number matched and I recognized the signature and date in the picture of the warranty booklet the service tech in San francisco had stamped it. or sure the exact car we had.

Coincidentally, that was Volvo national HQ.

There is a used car DEALER there in thast city that buys lemon law returns off Volvo and likely MB too; and resells them on ebay.

I watched the auction. One year old Camille, that we bought for $29k, got knocked down a year and a half later for just $24k ! But branded now with a lifetime lemon title, though the selooler lied: He said it only "Owner claimed car wandered on crown of road; problom could not be replicated".

Liar.

Luckily we had kept the old 1991 volvo 740 and not traded. Wifey drove it a few more years and in 2004 we split up for good and i got her a new white '04 Honda Accord she wanted ..

She evidently took it to Florida to be with her secret second family; and she wrecked it a few times.

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