Our future is clear
Can hardly wait for the Geneva and New York Auto Shows! It’s going to be a great year for Volvo. dan
Is a Volvo with a Paddle Shifter in your Future?
Many years ago, an executive from one of the Big Three was being cornered about something within his company. Apparently he uttered: “I can neither confirm nor deny that I can confirm nor deny.” What a great way to get out of being pinned down. What I can say about the following is that [...]
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: [...]
Sales report – August 2012
ROCKLEIGH, N.J. (Sept. 4, 2012) – Volvo Cars of North America, LLC, (VCNA) reported U.S. sales of 6,323 units, a 21.2 percent increase from August 2011, and the highest August monthly volume since 2007. Year-to-date sales are down 1 percent over the first eight months of 2011. The top seller for the month was the [...]
An interview with Hans Nilsson – 60 Series Project Manager
Hans – aka Hasse – and I worked together in our Parts group, around 1982. I forgot what he did, heck, I hardly remember what I did, but his young family was here for six months and lived close to us in NJ. Amazing how quickly time passes, he’s now a grandfather and gone from [...]
Early holiday present to employees for a job well done
As mentioned in some prior blog posts, all too often employees might think this is just another job, a 9-5 gig (yeah right, most work much more than that, meaning they take pride in what they do and when having fun, time flies). But when we get customer letters about how they believe our car [...]
Real world accident research – Real world results
Many of you know this bit of Volvo history but please bear with me on this refresh. Since 1972, Volvo in Sweden has investigated real world accidents that happen within about an hour’s drive of our Torslanda HQ. A team of researchers head to a site, take measurements, interview people and sometimes take the car into [...]
AutoWeek – Ruling the Roost
Colorado is really beautiful. I can see why people move there and stay. We were out in Gateway, which is in the western part of Colorado, and couldn’t have found a better place to play with our XC. AutoWeek Ruling the Roost dan
XC Adventure – Race Across the States
Taking adventure to the extreme Our range of XC vehicles, the XC60, XC70 and XC90, have been perennial best sellers globally since their respective introductions (in the XC90′s case, that was 2002). And for years we’ve talked about the buyers of these vehicles living life to the extreme. Next week we are asking a few [...]
Fun Volvo Pics
We get some of the nicest pictures from our friends in the media. The two here are from Danica Laub and Alan Hasemeyer. Danica used to work in PR at Mazda. She finally realized she was never going to be able to afford that ski chalet in Aspen working in the car industry. She picked [...]
