YouTube – GRYNCH “My Volvo”
BE warned Grynch uses some four letter words a couple of times here but heck I’ll take it. My wife loves Rap, kind of modern poetry; feels like a heart beat and got to admit some of Rap is good, about life and dirty streets. Poetry is cool. While back, just pounding these keys blogging [...]
Pennsylvania School Chosen as Winner of Nationwide Mural Painting Contest
Barry Hamilton’s and Edie Genden’s sixth grade classes from Mechanicsburg Middle School in Mechanicsburg, Penn., were named the grand prize winners of the OCEANS classroom mural contest. The contest, inspired by Disneynature’s OCEANS and sponsored by Volvo, Wyland Foundation, and Frederix Art Canvas, took place from Apr. 5 – Apr. 22 and drew more than [...]
A Volvo car ride can ease allergies
Since the mid-’60s our cars were fitted with lumbar support systems (great for bad backs) and later we added heated seats (which are also wonderful for back pain). Some years ago we started adding interior air quality improvement systems. This just came over from VCC, thought we would share it with you. dan =========== As wonderful as [...]
Volvo Club of North America – Events
We are sponsoring a couple of local meet and greet events in May – one in Dallas, TX and the other in Atlanta, GA. Our whole offering will be there for club members to test drive. James Hope and Geno Effler are heading to TX and I get to go to Atlanta, GA. Guess that’s [...]
History Channel – Sliced – From Seat Belt to Flame Thrower
In early January, we fielded a call from one of History Channel’s segment producers, Powder House Productions. “We are starting a new show on History Channel, can you guys send us a seat belt and air bag?” In my world that’s on open invitation, kind of like you going into a candy shop with [...]
Happy Earth Day
In April, Volvo partnered with the Wyland Foundation to sponsor a nationwide classroom mural contest inspired by Disneynature’s OCEANS and the coinciding eight-city “One Ocean, One Planet” mural education tour along the West Coast. Over a two-week period, the tour made stops at elementary and middle schools in Seattle, Portland, Sacramento, San Francisco, Oakland, Fresno [...]
World Congress meeting of SAE, April 14, 2010
One of our VCC engineering colleagues attended this year’s Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) Conference. Below is a short email from him acknowledging our Pedestrian Detection with Full Auto Braking for the upcoming S60. _________ This came to our head of regulations and compliance in Rockleigh, NJ: Hi Adam, Here are some short notes from [...]
Ward’s Auto Interior of the Year Awards
Scandinavian design wins again. Wards Auto World, widely acknowledged as one of the best ‘insider’ publications for our business, just announced our XC60 interior as one of the best for 2010. My favorite, of course besides our XC60, is that Porsche Panamera – it’s stunning. Rather than me gushing on how our interior design team [...]
Our Customer Care Department
Terri (blog reader/commenter) asked, on our March 11 posting, how we handle customer relationships. Our most important customer contact point is Customer Care. I asked Bill Casey, Volvo’s Customer Care manager, to give us an insider’s POV. Bill: After holding several positions at other companies, I knew I wanted to pursue a career in Customer [...]
Ready for the race track
Wow, that’s one bad…well you get the idea. Just looks nasty. Features mid-engine, V6 (not from our parts bins), 410 horsepower, an autobahn rocket. dan Volvo Cars enters the all-new Volvo S60 in the Belgian Touring Car Series Just weeks after the all-new Volvo S60 was introduced to the public, the latest Volvo model is [...]
