Six Degrees of Automotive Separation – Volvo

To commemorate Steve Berry’s and Apple Farmer Racing’s run up Pike’s Peak in a Volvo this weekend, let’s turn our gaze onto Gothenburg’s most well-known automaker for this week’s Hemmings Six Degrees of Automotive Separation Challenge. (And, hey, is that a standalone V up there? I should’ve caught that for the Automotive Alphabet.)
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Imports at Carlisle

Mark McCourt and I have been back from the big import show in Carlisle since Sunday night, but what with deadlines and all, I haven’t had a chance to go through my photos until now. You can’t talk about Carlisle without talking about the weather, and we were lucky there – it only rained on […]

Swedish meatpacker

Admit it, you love this. We’re preparing to run a retrospective of Volvo in motorsports within the pages of Hemmings Sports & Exotic Car, and came across this archival photo, with a major assist from Volvo history keeper Claes Rydholm. In company folklore, this is the toughest Volvo competition sedan ever produced.

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