Best Review of Pedestrian Safety I’ve Seen
Very good description and demonstration by our Naughty Tour host.
Good holiday weekend to all our friends in the US. The rest of you…well it’s just two days to Monday.
dan
The ‘Naughty Volvo Tour’ Coming to a City Near You
An S60 hello to you all.
Last year we took XC60 on tour. Our goal was to show something completely different in two ways: design and safety. No other Volvo ever looked as good, (okay, I think the first C70 Coupe was stunning, especially in Saffron color), but the XC60 was really the first showing of [...]
Word Smithing 101
When Toyota announced their Star Safety System, we started to scratch our heads like, “Gosh, what makes that so special?” I put together lists of what Volvo had, when we had it, when it was fitted, to what models, if there were any markets we didn’t have something fitted … and it became overwhelming.
So I [...]
What does the History Channel, a Spy Car, and soon to be crushed XC60 have in common?
A lot!
About four months ago the History Channel’s newest series, Sliced, called and wanted to get a seat belt and air bag to cut open. Told them we’ll give them a whole car and it seems we caught them completely off guard. We gave them an XC60 that was heading to US Customs certified crusher. It [...]
Our future is about Prevention
Some cool news about XC60 via the below press release.
dan
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Volvo Cars’ active safety system German ADAC test winner
The largest automotive organization in the world, German ADAC, has carried out an extensive comparison test of different automatic speed and distance control systems. Volvo XC60 clearly won the test in which six different models were compared.
“ADAC has [...]
How about a contest?
Safety is difficult to demonstrate. BMW’s motor and exhaust sound great when you turn the key. Mercedes’ doors clunk like a bank vault. But, Volvo safety is well hidden, just waiting for that one miserable day in our life. XC60 has been different in that you can test drive our City Safety system at any [...]
VCOA meets VAPG
It’s always nice to meet folks who are as passionate about the Volvo brand as we are. A couple weeks ago, I had the opportunity to attend my first Volvo Club of America (VCOA) owners meeting at our super-secret test facility located outside Phoenix, Arizona. Actually, I’ll let the secret out of the bag. Internally [...]
Volvo City Safety will be at NCAA Final Four this weekend in Detroit
Media Launch for XC60 – Jan. 19-30
We’re starting today near San Francisco, Sausalito area, to show U.S. media our XC60. We have four groups of about 30 journalists in each group, meeting with us to go over details about our newest Crossover. This starts with presentations by out lead safety guy Thomas Broberg and Global Project leader Lars Blenwal, both from [...]
A Really Good Question
The other day, we were asked if we keep adding systems like Blind Spot, Driver Alert, Lane Departure, Collision Warning with Auto Braking, City Safety and, in the future, Pedestrian Safety, if we are taking control away from the driver. Well yes and no.
This question came up years ago when manufactures started adding ABS and [...]
