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
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: [...]
Charleston, S.C.
A couple of weeks ago, we took a short vacation to Charleston, S.C. Of course we took our dog, Chelsea, so hotel choices were limited. We stayed in a nice Marriott Residence on Ripley Point, maybe 5 minutes from downtown. They have reasonable prices for nice clean rooms, friendly staff and a rather good breakfast. [...]
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 [...]
