Want a 2013 XC60 for $25?
We donated a 2013 Volvo XC60 to Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation for them to raffle off this year. Raise your hand if you have bought at least Mega Lottery ticket. Now, raise your hand if you have blown at least $25 in lottery tickets. You had about as much a chance of winning as [...]
Happy New Year – Best In Snow
Not Best in Show, Best In Snow. A good percentage of our cars are leased, meaning a three-year-old XC70 coupled with our CPO (Certified Pre-Owned program – just acknowledeged as best in industry) could be one heck of a good deal. In 2010, TheStreet.com named XC70 as one of the seven best cars in snow: [...]
XC60 Honored by SheKnows 2012 Parenting Award
My wife thinks the XC60 is “cute,” actually she likes it a lot but she is still hard pressed to give up her S60 T5. The first time I drove XC60, it was hard to believe how nimble it handled. We were driving on mountain roads, way north of San Francisco working with journalists. You know [...]
Help the Volvo XC60 win a SheKnows Award
Go vote. I’m not going to ramble about who is best for what … to me, we don’t need to be defended, hacked to pieces on Facebook as to what we stand for, what our record has been, what we offer for the future. It’s just a no-brainer. There is a difference between the marketing department [...]
The Volvo XC60: Safety and Style
Designing and developing safety features are among the most exciting challenges for any carmaker, and at Volvo we take particular pride in the development of our safety innovations. In fact, in 2000 we created a unique crash-test safety laboratory that enables us to recreate many different accident types on the road in order to not [...]
Catching up with the Twilight XC60 Winner
In honor of The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1, which opens in theaters in 2 weeks, we checked in with some previous Volvo/Twilight contest winners. Below is the first update from Varun Jain, winner of the “Lost in Forks” contest in Canada – and the lucky winner of the actual XC60 Edward (Robert Pattinson) [...]
Scandinavian Architecture
Growing up in the 60′s, Danish furniture was the in style. Teak desks with rounded corners and dressers with no handles – just hand holds carved out from doors or those really nice blended in recessed 1/2 round edges. The drawers worked so smoothly and there were no metal rails. Later in life, I learned [...]
An easy way to get a speeding ticket: Drive an XC60
At least according to Warren Brown, Washington Post automotive writer. I’ve been where Warren has: Lulled out of full consciousness while driving by flashing red lights, in my case talking with a business analyst about Volvo’s brand image at 1:00 am on the 91 freeway in Irvine, CA. I was charged $300 for crossing a [...]
The ‘Naughty Volvo Tour’ Coming to a City Near You
An S60 hello to you all. Last year we took XC60 on tour. Our goal was to show something completely different in two ways: design and safety. No other Volvo ever looked as good, (okay, I think the first C70 Coupe was stunning, especially in Saffron color), but the XC60 was really the first showing [...]
The 41-Year-Old Twilight Virgin
It will come as no surprise to most that author Stephanie Meyer’s Twilight series isn’t written for or marketed toward those with a Y chromosome. As I posses this bit of human DNA, I haven’t made a tremendous effort to read these enormously successful novels. Aside from skimming the jacket covers, my knowledge of these [...]
