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-...

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 ...

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 humb...

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 ...

“The standard S60 is a very dynamic sporty chassis, but when we developed it we focused on the driver and the passengers to make them feel secure and comfortable. The R-DESIGN chassis is even more driver oriented. It’s maybe not the car for everyone, it’s the car for the extrovert, someone who wants...

Across the road shrouded in fog, darkness and thick forest, lies the Nürburgring Nordschleife – the world’s most fearsome racetrack. Dubbed “The Green Hell” by Formula One legend Jackie Stewart, the Nordschleife, or ’Ring' – as it is affectionately known by its legion of petrolhead fans – is the o...

This must be the first Volvo wagon that they started at the front, not the back. Previous models have been famed for their carrying capability, their toughness and their all-round versatility. The new Volvo V60 is different. It’s still strong and safe and versatile and Volvo is hoping that buyers wi...

Our all-new Volvo S60 and V60 R-DESIGN cars are “Passion Red” – a hue that shouts against the surrounding whites and ochres. With their stiffened chassis, lowered suspension and styling kits, they’re totally responsive driver-oriented cars. And we’re here on the first stop of a ten-day trip that wil...

As far back as man can remember, the forest has played the bad guy in our collective imaginations. And of course it has given Swedes their fair share of dark tales. The mythical shadow of the enchanting skogsrå (literally a "spirit of the forest", a half-girl, half-demon who lures woodsmen...