Tests and Features

I’m a practical guy; always have been. I wear a carry-all ( read: fanny pack ) when I travel, a bucket hat in the sun, and jeans whenever possible. It’s for all of these reasons that, after a long weekend behind the wheel, I came to appreciate the sheer sensibility …

For a dark period in the 2000s Volvo pulled out of the wagon market in North America, convinced that crossovers were the way of the future. Fortunately my favourite Swedish automaker eventually saw the light and realized that the wagon-in-everything-but-name XC70 wasn't going to cut it with the brand's built-in …

Today’s comparative match-up pits two similar cars against one another. Both are fully equipped red Volvo wagons. But there’s one important difference between the two competitors: one is fresh out of the plant, still exuding that new car smell, while the other left its native Sweden more than two decades …