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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 [...]

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XC – What’s In a Name?

Posted by kimmcmartin on Feb 11, 2009 in Volvo History

In 1997, we launched our V70 XC Cross Country, basically a wagon with attitude – between Clark Kent and Bruce Wayne. I had a chance to meet with Peter Horbury our chief of design in those days, at this year’s North American International Auto Show in Detroit. With XC60 about to launch, I wanted to [...]

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