http://www.volvocars.com/ie/top/community/livstories/Pages/default.aspx?itemid=74559b08-3f09-4056-816e-0f954d8f4fdb What is the first place that comes to mind when you hear the phrase “street art”? New York subways? A Parisian underpass? Chances are it won’t be the smart Swiss city of Lugano, with its elegant squares, luxury hotels and yacht-jostled lake. But cast off your preconceptions and reflect for a moment upon the origins of the word “graffiti” – an Italian word describing the intricate technique of scr... Fri, 07 Oct 2011 03:00:00 http://www.volvocars.com/ie/top/community/livstories/Pages/default.aspx?itemid=afbf2335-6272-48f1-9498-ba949b28ce95 By using a driving robot, Volvo engineers can get cars to perform repeatable manoeuvres – over and over again. This makes it possible to improve the way cars drive by collecting high-quality data from a wide range of tests. For example, an engineer will set a route around a track and the robot’s on-board software will learn it, allowing the car to drive exactly the same set path at the same speed... Fri, 07 Oct 2011 03:00:00 http://www.volvocars.com/ie/top/community/livstories/Pages/default.aspx?itemid=450d2518-81ac-4cd6-a961-ac1805c918a8 It is perfectly possible to get a luxury desert camping experience in Dubai – but we decided to strike out on our own and commissioned film set designer Andrew Del Rosario from ArtVenture Design to build us a tent fit for a sheikh. His work can be seen in the forthcoming Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol. Our five-star, 20-metre tent took four weeks to envision and one day to construct in the ... Fri, 07 Oct 2011 03:00:00 http://www.volvocars.com/ie/top/community/livstories/Pages/default.aspx?itemid=31889e11-2939-4e89-896d-637b062fe3a8 Like all good businesses, Dubai’s success has been founded on forward sightedness and diversification. The Al Maktoum family realized that their oil wasn’t going to last forever and developed subsidiary interests in trade and tourism. But if you look hard enough you can still find traces of the humble fishing village that became this behemoth, and a mere 45 minute drive from the shopping malls an... Fri, 07 Oct 2011 03:00:00 http://www.volvocars.com/ie/top/community/livstories/Pages/default.aspx?itemid=47a1f6a6-04e7-4bde-9b2d-693c4d57f860 Samuel Hübinette is a two-time Formula D Drifting precision driver who grew up in Jokkmokk in the far northern reaches of Swedish Lapland. Having spent over ten years working as a test driver for Volvo in Sweden, he’s the perfect man to try out the all-new Volvo S60 in California, where he now resides. Samuel, who is known in Drifting circles as ‘The Crazy Swede’, takes the car for a spin at spee... Mon, 10 May 2010 05:00:00 http://www.volvocars.com/ie/top/community/livstories/Pages/default.aspx?itemid=a253547e-36b9-4309-b82f-07d13c2d9320 Frankincense, the sap from the Boswellia Sacra tree, has been prized for over four millennia. LIV went in search of it in Oman. Occasionally the road ran out, but that didn’t stop us...   Photographs by Andrew Shaylor Mon, 10 May 2010 05:00:00 http://www.volvocars.com/ie/top/community/livstories/Pages/default.aspx?itemid=6f30e4dd-8480-416c-ba67-393821ff5f6f The S60’s engineering team talk us through some of the car’s amazing technological features  JONAS TISELLJonas Tisell is the manager of the reactive safety functions group. He talks us through the inner workings of the pedestrian detection system, which scans all kinds of objects in front of the car and, using artificial intelligence, is able to predict if a pedestrian is about to step out in fro... Mon, 10 May 2010 05:00:00 http://www.volvocars.com/ie/top/community/livstories/Pages/default.aspx?itemid=75b54e58-3d17-4ba1-9b76-4bd2e5de680d We meet the designers behind the S60’s sporting, sleek lines and spacious interior JONATHAN DISLEY & TONY HUNTERJonathan Disley and Tony Hunter, both programme chief designers for the S60, are responsible for the car’s inspiration and interior design. They tell us how they managed to capture a dynamic, sporty feel for the S60’s interior by using lines leading from the instrument panel and i... Mon, 10 May 2010 04:00:00 http://www.volvocars.com/ie/top/community/livstories/Pages/default.aspx?itemid=3500811e-ecba-4a13-91e2-73e8a5ed64aa Spärhusen - the almost-great band from Sweden are about to play their first ever US concert in Los Angeles. LIV got exclusive access. Mon, 10 May 2010 04:00:00 http://www.volvocars.com/ie/top/community/livstories/Pages/default.aspx?itemid=47962e4e-8f28-4abd-8205-4a3bf39b1fcb A fast tour around the new creative Italy in a new Volvo C70   I’m in a new Volvo C70 T5, driving through Tuscany. Impossibly beautiful hilltop villages, olive groves and vineyards stream past my window, which is down (along with the C70’s clever three-part folding roof). But this isn’t just a pleasure cruise. We’re driving to meet the people who personify modern Italy. We’re on the road nor... Mon, 10 May 2010 04:00:00 http://www.volvocars.com/ie/top/community/livstories/Pages/default.aspx?itemid=854f4f0e-8761-4d0e-95a0-7ec75d623442 Sportier, sexier and attracting more looks in the city… Time to fall in love with Volvo’s new C30 all over again   The first thing that hits you about the new Volvo C30 is the colour – they call it “Orange Flame Metallic”. Volvo’s Cecilia Stark Berglund, who mixed the new C30’s launch colour, says: “We wanted something vivid and sporty to match the car’s character. This orange is fresh and mode... Mon, 10 May 2010 04:00:00 http://www.volvocars.com/ie/top/community/livstories/Pages/default.aspx?itemid=fadcfa40-f730-42af-bae1-a81d58066cfe Can we do it? 1358 km. Coast to coast. One tank of fuel. Mon, 10 May 2010 04:00:00