Swedish Police Volvo XC70 Rams, Rolls Audi

Volvonaut — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 09:51:58 +0000

OK, these pictures has been floating around for a while but I just had to add them. What we see here is a Swedish Police Volvo XC70 showing us what happens if you’re a drugged up couple of thieves trying to outrun them. The Volvo eats that Audi straight up, om-nom-nom. The Swedish Police aren’t usually this brutal so I’m a bit surprised, but I’d rather have them ram these suckers off the road than having that Audi speed somewhere else.

The pictures were taken close to Gävle in Sweden by Joen Jarl, a 24-year old student luckily sitting with his camera in his lap when the Police pursuit passed them. Apparently the Audi tried to U-turn in a desperate attempt to get away from the Police, so the officers decided to hit them right on instead of risking losing them again (full story available in Swedish at Expressen.se).

Check out the sequence here, click the thumbnails for larger images:

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Volvo XC60 named International Truck Of The Year 2010

Volvonaut — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 20:09:09 +0000

Hey, look at that; Volvo XC60 (my current personal favorite among the Volvo models) beat 9 competing crossovers, SUVs and trucks and was named 2010 International Truck of the Year by the ICOTY jury (a panel consisting of 19 car magazines and websites) and the award was handed over at the 2009 LA Auto Show.

The fact that the XC60 is the first car to offer City Safety (where the car brakes automatically if the driver reacts too slow) as standard equipment ought to have helped.

Congrats, Volvo!

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