What’s in a Name?
Hi Folks, We have a quick one this week. Rather quiet around HQ, finally. XC60s are moving out to retailers and customers. There is almost an air of relief here that this project has finally come from wishful thinking to seeing them roll of curbs into peoples lives. Our past chief of design, Peter Horbury, [...]
Car Body Side Panel Stamping Technology
This came out last year, and I’ve been waiting for a good time to spring some interesting technical stuff on you guys/gals. This came from Corus who is one of our suppliers for steel stampings. Corus is second largest steelmaker in Europe and ninth largest in the world and on their home page, as of [...]
From There to Here
I suspect you know our cars come from Europe, well Sweden and Belgium – great Herring, great beers. They don’t arrive by magic or Viking long boats but really huge floating warehouses. I once took half a day to goof off and went down to Port Newark to experience massiveness. Ok, I saw lots of [...]
Graphic Man
So I’m sitting here, going through email and I open one from George Acorn over at www.swedespeed.com about a guy with an old 245 wagon with a little over 300,000 miles on it and he wants to know if we want it for our car collection. No, not really. That’s kind of middle age mileage [...]
