I arrived in Austin around 9pm on Friday night, the EC and the EE aisles were both full. There was only one Volvo on the whole lot, but was parked on the EE side. After reading others reports I grabbed it anyway and not a word was said when I went to the booth to checkout.
If this is the norm with National then they'll have all of my business. I've been a Hertz renter where the best car I normally run across is a Mazda or Toyota outside of Prestige Collection airports.
This is only a base S40 with the weak engine, but I'm a whole lot happier driving this than a domestic anything and really there wouldn't be very many Asian cars I'd pick over this car either.