It's all fun and games you know. I just have to shake my head every time it occurs and it occurs with some frequency. Maybe I just remember the Volvo cases and dismiss the rest.

The funny thing is that my parents owned a volvo while living in Europe and it was only when I came here to the U.S. that I noticed this different volvo driver... the type of driver that would plan their routes so that they wouldn't have to take a left.

As for Volvo helping Ford to hybrid technology... I don't buy it. The article suggest that Ford copied the Toyota's version, to the point that the technologies were identical. Ford swapped patent for patent to get around this. Reverse engineering isn't IMO considered original. Therefore in my book, volvo did nothing.