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The ‘Naughty Volvo Tour’ Coming to a City Near You

Posted by danjohnston on Jul 13, 2010 in City Safety, S60, XC60, c70, distracted driving, pedestrian safety, safety

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 of [...]

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The 41-Year-Old Twilight Virgin

Posted by KristinS on Jul 8, 2010 in C30, Twilight, XC60, contest

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 [...]

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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 [...]

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Vampire Time Again

Posted by danjohnston on Jun 24, 2010 in Twilight, XC60, contest

Nice photography for this TV commercial with Edward’s XC60 from The Twilight Saga: Eclipse. Don’t forget to enter and play the game to win an XC60 just like Edward drives at http://www.lostinforks.com/.

dan

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What does the History Channel, a Spy Car, and soon to be crushed XC60 have in common?

Posted by danjohnston on May 18, 2010 in City Safety, XC60, news

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 [...]

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Volvo XC60 Wins Prestigious 2010 International Truck of the Year Award

Posted by Anna Kruchowski on Dec 4, 2009 in XC60 General

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 [...]

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What Drives Edward – XC60 contest winners

Posted by Anna Kruchowski on Dec 3, 2009 in General, XC60 General

Given the overwhelming response to the What Drives Edward contest, we decided to give away XC60s to the first and second person to complete the game.  Special congratulations go to Beth G. of Illinois and Jeanettte U. of Georgia for taking home a shiny new Volvo, just like Edward’s. For all the details, click here.
Dan

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From There to Here

Posted by kimmcmartin on Mar 13, 2009 in General, Volvo History

I suspect you know our cars come from Europe, well Sweden and Belgium – great Herring, great beers. They don’t arrive by magic or Viking long boats but really huge floating warehouses. I once took half a day to goof off and went down to Port Newark to experience massiveness. Ok, I saw lots of [...]

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Graphic Man

Posted by kimmcmartin on Mar 4, 2009 in Volvo History, XC60 General

So I’m sitting here, going through email and I open one from George Acorn over at www.swedespeed.com about a guy with an old 245 wagon with a little over 300,000 miles on it and he wants to know if we want it for our car collection. No, not really. That’s kind of middle age mileage [...]

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http://priuschat.com/forums/prius-modifications/45487-operation-volvo-seats-in-prius.html

Posted by kimmcmartin on Feb 17, 2009 in Volvo History

Or if that doesn’t work for you:  “The seats. You can’t talk about a Volvo without championing the seats as probably the industry’s most comfortable. You gotta wonder why all other automakers don’t simply copy ‘em,” said James Healey, USA Today in his C30 review.
I guess that says it all. Besides being known for safety, [...]

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