How a Charming Old Volvo Fell in My Lap: Bringing Home my 2001 Volvo V70 XC
Buying a project car is a life choice that reveals a lot about your character — and of the car you’re restoring to health. Like a stray animal at a … Read more
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The 2024 Volvo XC90 Recharge Was a Serene Escape From Stress and Struggle
Life has a funny way of presenting things as you need them. Call it karma, link it to religion, or blame it on my Libra’s moon being in Virgo (or … Read more
Jingles All The Way: Volvo’s Epic ‘I Am Rolling’ Album and Music Video
We’ve talked about jingles, but Friday’s feature demands a bit more volume. And for that, I’m turning to 1980s-era Volvo and their ‘I Am Rolling’ album. The fine purveyor of … Read more
2023 Volvo XC60 Recharge Review: Best Seller for Good Reason
My parents have been casually car shopping, looking to replace their 2011 Subaru Outback. The Outback is an interesting vehicle, in that it feels more like a go-anywhere wagon with … Read more
We Put Six Cheap “Grandma Cars” Through Two Days of Rallycross
Cheap car challenges are becoming a sort of annual tradition around here. When we wrapped up last year’s $1,500 all-wheel drive off-roading trip, the theme of “old lady cars” was … Read more
I Bought a Manual-Transmission Volvo S70 T5M for the ‘Old Lady Rallycross Challenge’
By the time this piece gets published, I’ll be headed a bit south and west of home in a 2020 Ram 1500 EcoDiesel, with a cheap old Volvo strapped to … Read more
We Took Five Super-Cheap All Wheel Drive Vehicles Off-Roading
Last year, I went off-roading with some friends in Virginia’s George Washington National Forest. We had a blast with the mix of trucks and SUVs that we owned, some of … Read more