The car that changed Volvo forever | Drive Flashback

In 1996, Volvo used a sledgehammer to let people know it had cast off its dowdy and conservative imageOriginal review, by Phil Scott, first published in Drive on 12 May, 1996If you thought Volvo was still run by middle-aged guys called Lars and Erik who wear bad golf trousers on weekends, think again.The Swedes are hell-bent on changing the image of the past 20 years. Either that or they’re having the world’s biggest corporate mid-life crisis.The symptoms are all there: they used the