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 I had the chance to drive an S80 one weekend, and the timing couldn’t have been worse; it was triathlon weekend.

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MANILA, Philippines - The last time I test-drove a new Volvo, it was the then-new Volvo C30 – a.k.a. the Twilight vampire car.

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Judging from the way Volvo designs and markets its automobiles, I’d characterize their cars with three “S” words. Just ten years ago, that would have been “safe, sensible and staid.”

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Judging from the way Volvo designs and markets its automobiles, I’d characterize their cars with three “S” words. Just ten years ago, that would have been “safe, sensible and staid.”

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