DieselDrive Magazine

You can say what you want about vampires and werewolves, but making Edward Cullen – the main vampire character in the Twilight-saga – drive a Volvo C30 in the first film was sheer genius on Volvo’s side. It took only one scene – where Edward saved Bella from a group of guys with dubious intentions [...]

Think back to the 1990s and you might remember how the Volvo 850-wagon brought a new dimension of style and sportivity to the local motoring landscape, in the process becoming a bigger status symbol than a double-cab bakkie or a Volkswagen Microbus. To this day, the 850-range remains my favourite Volvos and, if ever there [...]

I have driven cars many people would gladly sacrifice an organ for that did absolutely nothing to my blood pressure, just as I have driven cars that most people will randomly disregard but impressed me immensely. For me, it’s not so much about who made the car than it is about how they made the [...]

I vividly remember Volvo’s return to South Africa in the ‘90s and how, at least where I lived, the 850 became the must-have car amongst the wealthy folks. A few years later, when Volvo introduced the “S” nomenclatures for the sedans and “V” for wagons with the S40 in 1995, the 850 became the S70, [...]

There’s something about Scandinavian design that makes it stand out above the crowd. It’s rarely flashy, in-your-face or extremely complex; you’d rather find sleek and simplistic lines so fraught with elegance that it’s the minimalism of it’s entirety that strikes the most. This is true of their cars as well, and especially of Volvo, where [...]