Another Story with a Nice Ending – Volvo Saved My Life
Two “Saved My Life” stories in one week is unusual. Maybe the internet does make our world smaller. dan S80 2001 On April 25th at around 10pm, my wife Meghan was returning home from school when a raccoon darted in front of her while in the high speed lane. Meghan tried to avoid the [...]
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 – Ride ‘em Hard and Put ‘em away wet
In 1997, for the first XC70 media launch, we took a hand full of cars and media to Alaska. The event drive was up a Forest Service road, across some streams, up over a mountain into an old gold mining town, and then back to the home base hotel. It was fun, and showed how our [...]
We’ve been waiting since March
Sorry for not posting more lately, I’ve just been buried with the XC Adventure out west, then a trip to Road America for MAMA (Midwest Automotive Media Association) for a ride event, and support work with “Drive Towards Zero” in Washington DC later this week. “Drive Towards Zero” is Volvo’s vision of a future entirely free [...]
Team Ludin – Blog Entry #4
I’m writing this at 7:45 pm on Tuesday evening. Right about now, my fellow journalists are probably tucking in to a delicious dinner in Gateway, Colorado. We’re still in Utah with 2+ hours to go, which means we’re about 5 hours behind schedule, and — with all due respect to the folks at Volvo [...]
Team Ludin – Amazing Photo of Zion
Greetings from Team Ludin, reporting live from Mt. Carmel Junction, Utah! This morning we headed into Zion Park, and the natural beauty struck both of us silent — and if you know me or Steve Siler, you know that’s virtually imfrigginpossible. For the first time, we argued about who was *not* going to drive. Tragedy [...]
Team Ludin Update
Team Ludin reporting in on Monday night from Washington, Utah. We had a fantastic drive through the Mojave National Reserve, in which we stopped every fifteen feet to take photos and loved every minute of it. (Well, almost every minute.) After dining in Vegas, we decided to press on to Utah to give ourselves [...]
Team Edgar
Just had a BIG lunch at the Mad Greek in Baker, heading to Vegas in our XC70, keeping fuel economy at 25 mpg. Love this vehicle, seats, refinement, Caspian Blue paint is so elegant! We’ve named our XC70 Blue Cloud, a direct descendant of Red Cloud, the 1980 Volvo Wagon that I raced around the [...]
Team Gunnar
We are passing 209 miles into the desert, looking for a place to have dessert. XC70 is amazingly quiet and still getting 26.8 mpg at 90 mph…would you believe 65?
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 [...]
