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19 February 2007, 08:53 PM
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Volvo's $1 million guarantee
Comment: I'm forever debunking the urban myths that my boyfriend brings home or e-mails about as "facts."
The latest is that Volvo either offers or used to offer $1 million to the family of anyone killed in their cars, ostensibly because they are so safe. I told him there was no way that was true, but he swears he saw it on a commercial a few years ago. I can't find it anywhere online ... not even a mention of the offer as an old one, or the truth. 
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19 February 2007, 09:07 PM
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I personally know someone whose sister was killed in an auto accident. She was driving a Volvo.
The UL is just that - false.
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19 February 2007, 09:26 PM
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THere is nob company that would ever claim that there was no way that passengers would not be killed in a crash. Not ever not even for a million dollars. Such a claim would open up a field day for false advertisement and wrongful death suits that would cost the company many more times than the paltry million dollar payoff.
It makes no logical sense for any business to do that.
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20 February 2007, 01:19 AM
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Between my parents, my sister, and I, we own five Volvos. My dad loves them, and in all the years he's been obsessed with them, I've never once heard that myth.
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20 February 2007, 07:31 AM
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Not true. People die in cars all the time, including Volvos. You'd have to sell something like 100 or more extra cars per death to make it profitable (probably many times more than that, I don't know their profit margins), which is just not going to happen.
Besides, I doubt Volvo as a company can afford paying anyone anymore...
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20 February 2007, 07:51 AM
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