Best Review of Pedestrian Safety I’ve Seen
Very good description and demonstration by our Naughty Tour host.
Good holiday weekend to all our friends in the US. The rest of you…well it’s just two days to Monday.
dan
Volvo for Life.
XC90 – A Car for all Seasons
Volvo is about Life. What we build is from a Scandinavian culture that cares about people, I guess we could say a holistic culture. Our part in this culture is to help protect people inside and outside our cars during their most important and memorable events in their lives. [...]
George Perkins, Executive Producer – “Desperate Housewives”
A while back, we asked George if he would like to review our C70. Unfortunately, he was traveling in Hawaii at the time, leaving us no way to get one there within a reasonable time frame. However, upon his return, he took one for a state-side test drive.
Dan
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I’ve just received the Volvo C70 to drive [...]
Word Smithing 101
When Toyota announced their Star Safety System, we started to scratch our heads like, “Gosh, what makes that so special?” I put together lists of what Volvo had, when we had it, when it was fitted, to what models, if there were any markets we didn’t have something fitted … and it became overwhelming.
So I [...]
Durability
We have two hard core corporate values: Safety and Quality. Used to be we called out Durability as a separate core value, but in reality it should have always been part of Quality. So to make life simpler for me (ok, a whole bunch of me’s) we added it to Quality.
What does durability mean? From [...]
What can we do to stop 6,000 deaths annually? Today Starts Teen Safety Driving Week.
Last year 6,205 people were involved in a teen driving accident…and they died. Yes we should feel sorry for those whose lives were cut short – think of those who might have been our leader to bring world peace, a doctor, scientist, or artist. Perhaps it is our fault for not putting more emphasis on [...]
What does the History Channel, a Spy Car, and soon to be crushed XC60 have in common?
A lot!
About four months ago the History Channel’s newest series, Sliced, called and wanted to get a seat belt and air bag to cut open. Told them we’ll give them a whole car and it seems we caught them completely off guard. We gave them an XC60 that was heading to US Customs certified crusher. It [...]
First U.S. Journalist to Drive the 2011 Volvo S60
Roger Hart from AutoWeek just came back from Germany, a great place to test drive any car, and in the link below he writes about our new S60 coming this later this year.
http://www.autoweek.com/article/20100517/CARREVIEWS/100519894
dan
Our Safety Center Celebrates Saving Lives
Volvo Safety Center
10 years ago we moved from a very cramped, limited ‘real world’ crash testing facility to one that no one could top. One key feature was a movable track that rides on an air cushion, which can duplicate just about any kind of impacting angle where two vehicles could meet at varying speeds. [...]
Teens/Texting/Trying to Drive
Below is a good piece on teen driving and possible ways to avoid deadly situations. Thinking about what we’re all looking for is to give teens more time to understand the physics of driving. Most have absolutely no concept that they are hurtling along with 4,000 pounds of metal and they have only basic understanding of [...]
