For my friend Gibby – World-First Cyclist Detection
A very interesting fellow. Gibby has an energy level that 20-year-old folks would love to have. He loves being outdoors and is an avid cyclist. I mean avid. A short morning ride for him is 50-60 miles and he wants me to join him and his friends – yeah right. Anyway, a couple of weeks [...]
Irv Gordon’s newest friend
The day before last week’s Open House in Rockleigh, Stephen Jacoby, our new CEO of Volvo Cars, Sweden (and rest of our Volvo world) came by to meet with employees. “I spent years working to take market share away from Volvo as head of VW group US. Now I am going to work on taking [...]
Our first Open House since 1998 (I stand corrected since 2000)
Amazing how the years just blow by. Friends who work here now have sons and daughters working here, new cars have been launched, people change positions. So many things are different. But not our Open House. Around nine months ago, Doug Speck, our CEO, told us it’s time to do one again. Working with Volvo [...]
Volvo XC60 Wins Prestigious 2010 International Truck of the Year Award
Holy Cow! Just realized we started this blog November 24, 2008. Our goal was to support XC60 launch, but it also gave us an opportunity to look inside what we do. What a fitting one-year anniversary then to have XC60 acknowledged at this week’s Los Angeles Auto Show. No one person in our company can [...]
Doug Speck Interview with Dutch Mandel from AutoWeek
Enjoy! http://www.autoweek.com/article/20091006/VIDEOINT/910069992 Thanks, Dan
Who worked on the XC60 project? Part 1
As with any company larger than a few people, we have a manager that facilitates our work and there are those of us that do the work. Cars don’t just arrive here and then are sold to our retailers. There are many people spending many hours (many beyond their 8:30 to 5 hours). Volvo has [...]
