I recently purchased an S80 29.  I have a few questions I'd like to
pose to the group:
For such a big car, it seems under powered.  The car downshifts quite a
bit (it's an automatic) when I step on the gas.  Is this normal for a
normally aspirated volvo?

I thought that cars sold in the USA in 2001 had to have the child seat
latches (I think its called Isofix if you buy it from the volvo
dealer)?  These are the metal "D-ring" type anchors located where the
rear seat meets the rear seat back portion that you fasten the child
car seat to.  This car doesn't have them.  Is this correct?  Did this
happen sometime during the 2001 model year?

AM Radio reception is horrible.  The radio stops on just about every
frequency when using the "scan" capability and the stations (even close
ones) are filled with static.  Does anyone know how I can diagnosis
this?  On my wife's 850 wagon, the radio was very easy to remove.  It
doesn't look that way on a 2001 S80.

Thanks for all of the help in advance.

V/R,
charlie