DieselDrive Magazine

It’s not every day that a really special car comes along with your name plastered all over it. I’m talking about something different; a car that sees local roads for a special occasion – and in the case of an import, they usually don’t stay for long. The last car I drove that fitted this [...]

Putting the words “naughty” and “Volvo” in the same book is like talking about your laptop while in the Okavango for a three-week bundu bash. Putting those two words in the same sentence though, is like telling your mother-in-law you like the underwear she’s wearing…in front of your wife! Volvo? Naughty? I couldn’t make any [...]

When you think of Volvo cars, several words come to mind: safe, solid, predictable even. Yet in the past few years, this perception has begun to change quite rapidly thanks to clever brand placements and fresh thinking in terms of marketing. Think, for example, of the Twilight-saga films and how Volvo products stole the show [...]

Volvo have always made good cars, yet their new S60 is described as ‘naughty’. While it’s probably the best-looking Volvo yet, the idea of a naughty Volvo seems far-fetched. Christo Valentyn attended the launch in the Western Cape to see just how naughty Volvo can get. Say the word Volvo and you’re bound to get [...]