Ericsson Boats Top the Volvo Ocean Race Podium in Boston

Ericsson Racing Team continued its dominance of the Volvo Ocean Race on 26 April when Torben Grael/BRA/Ericsson 4 and Magnus Olsson/SWE/Ericsson 3 finished first and second on leg six from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil to Boston, USA.
The two Ericsson teams shared the same top two positions on the previous leg from Qingdao in China [...]

Volvo: Swedish luxury – reconstructing luxury

Quiet beauty, rather than flashy bling. That is the essence of Swedish luxury. Designer entrepreneur and trend analyst Mathilda Tham jumps in a Volvo S80 Executive to go looking for the roots of Swedish style – and ends up in nature and tranquillity.

Luxury, throughout history, has stood for that which is rare and precious. In Western affluent society, with its abundance of consumer goods, it follows that commodities without a price tag, such as the experience of simplicity, silence, time, care and trust have become the new luxury.

These values are firmly rooted in the Swedish heritage – the quiet beauty of the landscape, the care about the environment and the attention to functional detail. Swedish luxury is quiet, simple, with a fine eye for exquisite details and intelligent functionality, following the ethos that ‘true beauty comes from the inside’. It offers an alternative to the flashy ‘bling’ culture prominent in recent years and targets an audience with a confident, conscious and intelligent perspective, a customer that seeks a car that signals good taste.

Smart, portable Garmin navigation system fits all new Volvo cars

In cooperation with Garmin, Volvo Cars has developed an elegant navigation kit that can be fitted to all new Volvo cars. The dealer installed accessory kit includes both a mounting bracket and the navigator unit. It will be available by the end of 2007.

Volvo Cars has designed a smart mounting bracket for Garmin’s latest hand navigator, the nüvi 760. The bracket is fitted on top of the dashboard, offering the driver a convenient plug-and-play solution.

This setup replaces the provisional suction cups and messy wires that often come with portable navigators. Volvo’s bracket has an integrated power connection for the 178-gram Garmin unit – and the bracket can easily be folded out of the way when the driver takes the navigator out of the car.

The system has a number of other benefits: