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Gavin Green on improving humble rear-view mirrors

Gavin Green, 08 June 2012 11:55

If we exclude the tiny volume luxury car kings, the auto companies probably doing the best cabin designs right now are Audi, Jaguar and Volvo. After a brief drive of the new and impressive Volvo V40 – the best Volvo I've driven – there was one particular stand-out cabin feature that raised an approving smile: the rimless rearview mirror. It ...

Can we drive to Austria on one tank?

Sarah-Jayne Harrison, 13 April 2011 10:50

It seemed like an innocuous enough challenge. Volvo asked us to drive to Austria on one tank of fuel in its new Volvo S60 DRIVe. That's 840 miles, from Marlow, Buckinghamshire to Mayrhofen in Austria for the seventh annual Snowbombing festival. Game on! Snowbombing is a skiing/boarding and music festival, featuring a fresh line-up of DJs, bands and various other acts each year. Volvo ...

Gavin Green on why Geely should be good for Volvo

Gavin Green, 16 August 2010 11:34

Almost 10 years ago, at a press conference at the Los Angeles auto show, Dr Wolfgang Reitzle – head of Ford’s Premier Automotive Group alliance of luxury car brands – outlined a boldly plausible future for Aston Martin, Land Rover, Jaguar and Volvo. By sticking to their own niches and specialities, but working collaboratively inside the rich protective yoke of ...

Lifestyle alert! Why I bought a Volvo estate

Ben Whitworth, 14 August 2008 14:56

Last week I did something I never thought I would do. I purchased a Volvo. A dirty great big V70 estate – a D5 SE if you like that sort of detail. Our little Skoda Fabia estate was battling to handle the vast array of luggage needed to sustain our two young daughters on any journey further than twenty yards, ...

Going Swedish. Or why Ben Whitworth has gone all Volvo on us

Ben Whitworth, 04 October 2007 10:42

It took having a few children for Ben Whitworth to finally understand Volvo's appeal I never really got Volvo. Sure, I’ve driven all the models in its transition from cumbersome and quirky to sleek and sophisticated, but I never got the whole Swedish thing. They were just a bit too bit too Waitrose on a Wednesday, a touch too safe ...