@db4690 Nothing wrong with your blanket. A few years ago we helped a Rice University student from India shop for a Chevy Cobalt. He got a good deal for $3000 or so and thanked us later, after graduation, for being so helpful.
The key qualities of a student car are reliability, cheap to fix and cheap to run. The Volvo does not meet any of these.
My student car was a 1948 Chevy stove bolt 6 with no extras whatsoever. I put $600 dollars into it over a 4 year period, and had cheap, reliable transportation.