California Volvo Car Dealers

Thanks for the report. Did you have to buy special winter tires? I hear they have a law requiring winter tires on cars driven there during the winter. We just finished planning our trip and it has us driving almost 4,000 miles in 33 days down to Barcelona, over to Venice and up. I'm a little nervous about leaving the new car parked in some of these towns but I imagine the Europeans do it all the time.

ROFL I wish I could have! My dealer had only 5 on the lot and the salesman found nothing in neighboring states and even looked at some dealerships in TX and CA. No one had a vehicle with the options I wanted. The sales manager said vehicles are usually ordered with only one or two option packages because those are in demand. They worry about losing money if a customer doesn't want to pay for an undesired option package on a vehicle on the lot. It's almost silly for individual dealers to have vehicles on the lot though. We buyers have already researched the cars and know what we want. There should be a big parking lot somewhere in the US from which dealerships pull new vehicles. I'd sure give up my Costco card to have my XC60 seven weeks ago.

Just signed the papers on an awd for overseas delivery. I was going to pick and choose the options since you can do that with overseas delivery but the dealer ended up cutting the price a little and encouraged me to go ahead and get the packages. AWD 3.2 Red Premium, Technology, Climate, Multimedia, Convenience packages Blis PCC 2 tickets to Europe and insurance for 1 month of driving around And of course the 5 years of service $43,330 w/o taxes and license I found the same car for a little less here but didn't include two tickets to Europe

Thanks a lot for the tip to track our new vehicle on the ship. I orderd my 3.2 AWD on Dec 18 but since I live in the west coast I have to wait longer. Mine will be arriving at Port Hueneme, CA by Feb 23rd. The long wait also keep me going back to XC60 videos and any materials that I can read about it. This forum made me feel that I am not alone - which is great. Please post your experiences when you get your XC60.

At the last minute a close by dealer came in and undercut the dealer I had been working with by about $800 on price and gave me an interest rate that was .7% better. I didn't even solicit this other quote since I didn't think OSD was negotiable. They got my name from the Costco program that I had explored for US delivery. Ended up saving me about $1500. I felt bad for the salesman I had been working with and I gave him an opportunity to match it or at least come my way some but he held fast and refused to negotiate.