If you have to ask: ‘Who is Edward Cullen?’ I have to ask: ‘Where have you been?’ Edward Cullen is only the most famous vampire since Dracula – with the difference that any girl would happily give a pint of her blood to meet with him on a dark night. Edward Cullen is the heart throb lead charact...

Professional test driver Samuel Hübinette drives the all-new Volvo S60 in California’s Mojave Desert  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 Vo...

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 ...

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...

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 pleas...

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...

The music scene - LIV recommends Ceza and Duman, two of the city’s best live acts Ceza is a one-man hip-hop army responsible for introducing rap music to Turkey. Combining fast machine gun vocals over Arabesque melodies, he’s been described as the “Turkish Eminem” by those who want to pigeonhole h...

Oliver Keller has done stunts for 24, CSI, Spiderman – and now the Volvo C30. You’ve done this stunt video in the Volvo C30 – what was all that about? I always wanted to do a cool picture with a Volvo, so I said, “I want to jump one of your cars pretty high and pretty far,” and they said, “Well, ...

On the roadNot many people think of New Zealand as having a desert, but that’s what they call this central area south of Lake Taupo. It actually receives more rainwater per annum than Wellington, but its surface is porous and can’t hold the water (unlike Lake Taupo, the biggest freshwater lake in th...

When Karl Eirik Haug, a Norwegian journalist, decided to launch an English-language car magazine about people, he found he had a lot of explaining to do…"Carl’s Cars is a magazine about people.” That’s the mantra of this quirky, beautiful and idiosyncratic quarterly produced in Oslo, in English...