Volvo's Best Car is its New Crossover
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A Looker, but No GTI
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Little Luxuries: Which One of the New Crop of Cushy Crossovers is Worth Your Cash?
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Can Volvo's Small, Premium SUV Make Safety Sexy?
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Like any good trend-setting magazine would do, we've taken these city-stomping Euro hotties out of their element for a drive and shoot in the Southern California desert.
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Having spent a day driving, riding in, and poking around Volvo's new 2008 V70 and XC70 wagons, I sat down to brainstorm a list of adjectives and characteristics to describe the cars in hopes of generating a story lede. Reading them back sounded a bit like a personal ad for a sweet girl who hasn't ha
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Volvo's entry level S40 sedan has led the last two full-line Volvo makeovers, each of which has met with critical acclaim. Despite the fact that the S40 and its V50 wagon sibling were last redesigned in late 2003 and are both still looking great, like vain Hollywood 30-somethings they've gone under
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Volvo's new C70 was introduced in 2006 as a replacement for the previous softtop and coupe. It uses a new platform, shared with the S40 and V50. The Volkswagen Eos is a retractable hardtop with a twist-it's the only one on the market that incorporates a sunroof.
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From a stop, plant the throttle, quickly fan the gears, and the family-friendly Evolve S60 cranks out a 4.7-second 0-to-60-mph run and nearly breaks into the 12s in the quarter.
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As the miles piled up, so did logbook comments. Most enjoyed the S40's simple interior styling, while some were put off by it.
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Absolut hatchback. Like vodka, this Swede comes to party. Sexy. Playful. Young. Emotional. Not adjectives normally associated with a Volvo. Say hello to the all-new C30 hatchback.
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We had the dealer check a driver-side front-seat heater that was no longer warming our backside.
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Volvo unveils the C30 to the world, and then announces that the all-new hatchback will come to the U.S. market. But guess what? We already drove it!
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The 2005 Volvo S40's cupholders are too shallow: One editor had to clean a spill from his travel mug after accelerating from a red light.
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There's one element of Volvo's image it doesn't like to broadcast: The brand is a key icon of the stereotypical liberal--or, as University of California, Berkeley linguist Geoffrey Nunberg describes the demographic, the "latte-drinking, sushi-eating, Volvo-driving, New York Times-reading, body-pierc
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Our Volvo S40 went in for its 15,000-mile service along with installation of a special-ordered driver-side seat track (to fix a clicking noise).
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Join The Club: ...or buy the club and change the rules. In this case of the Smiths versus the Joneses, how do you choose between this trio of luxury crossover wagons?
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Join The Club: ...or buy the club and change the rules. In this case of the Smiths versus the Joneses, how do you choose between this trio of luxury crossover wagons?
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The all-new Volvo C70, which dons the retractable roof for 2006, is among the first four-seaters sold in America to have one; another is the VW Eos.
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The all-new Volvo C70, which dons the retractable roof for 2006, is among the first four-seaters sold in America to have one; another is the VW Eos.
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The 2005 Volvo S40 T5 AWD casts a wide net, from easy-drive mode to push-it-till-the tires-squeal canyon carving.
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One of our editors took the S40 to Monterey for a weekend and noted an irritating throttle response.
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Ford's global C1 platform gets around.
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You're looking at this picture and asking yourself what these four vehicles have in common. Okay, here it is: These are the new all-wheel-drive "all 'rounders."
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Station to Station: The term "station wagon" comes from the vehicle's first use as a conveyance to carry people and their belongings to and from railroad stations. These "depot hacks," as they sometimes were called, became the four-wheeled embodiment of suburban American harmony.
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