Champion Rescue Tools and Volvo
The Fire-Rescue International conference is going on this week in Dallas. At the conference, Champion will release the training video that they made using a veritable fleet of Volvos we donated. A segment of the training video appears below the press release. Enjoy, Dan — Upland, CA, July 30, 2009 – Champion Rescue Tools, the [...]
How safe is an old Volvo? (continued)
S40s and V40s (1998-2003) were slotted to be our entry-level small cars. Actually this car was never intended for our market, but our manufacturing plant – NedCar – in the Netherlands had excess capacity from another manufacturer that was much less successful then we were with the S40 and V40, so we brought them to [...]
Happy Birthday, Volvo Three-Point Seat Belt
August 13, 1959 was a very special day for Volvo and those whose lives would be saved by our invention, the three-point seat belt. After its invention, Volvo opened the patent to anyone who wanted to use this simple device. In 1972, the U.S. Department of Transportation mandated that all cars sold in America would [...]
How safe is an old Volvo?
A friend asked me recently about buying an old Volvo for his son who is itching for wheels and heading to college in a year. His only requirement is that it has to carry bags of dirty clothes. “Is an old Volvo safe,” he asked. Wow, tough question. For their day, they were probably the [...]
