Your Safety Doesn’t Take a Holiday
While you travel during this holiday season, please, if you do nothing else to protect yourself and those who travel with you, have everyone wear their seat belt. It is THE most important lifesaving device ever invented for cars. That one hunk of nylon webbing has protected more people than anything we have today and [...]
All About City Safety
Ok, so like many of my male friends, we don’t want to give up control of anything to anyone, much less a car. I mean, why would I want some high tech device to stop my car…I’m not good enough? Well probably not. Last summer my wife and I were heading down to Washington, D.C., [...]
A car lowering insurance premiums?
April this year I took a small group of local automotive journalists to our Arizona Proving Grounds (APG) to show off safety systems we’re developing. One of my interesting responsibilities was showing/demonstrating to media how our safety systems work and giving them opportunities to meet with our top safety guys, like Thomas Broberg. Along with [...]
Who was the first person in the U.S. to buy an XC60?
Jane Irish from New Hampshire. Jane, a long time Volvo owner, test-drove our XC60 at Merrimack Street Volvo during a From Sweden with Löv tour stop and decided it fit her needs perfectly. “My lease [XC70] expired in April this year and I wanted something that was smaller than your XC90 and higher [seating position] [...]
The Safest Car Ever Made?
Last month during our XC60 tour, one journalist, after seeing how the City Safety feature works, asked, “If Volvo makes the safest cars, is this the safest car ever?” …Wow, a rather loaded question. Ok, without a doubt we can say this is the safest Volvo ever. City Safety pushes safety over the top on [...]
Hejsan!
Hi, or as a Swede would say: Hejsan, which is kind of like “Hi you.” I’m Dan Johnston, I get to work at Volvo and I’m not even Swedish ☺ How about we start with a Swedish language lesson: God morgon = Good morning (sounds like ‘good moron’) Tack = Thanks (tock) God afton = [...]
