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...come with high-torque V-6 or V-8 engines and all-wheel drive for grippier road handling. With their lower centers of gravity, they score better in rollover tests than most SUVs do, with the Chrysler Pacifica earning top marks, followed by the Nissan Murano, Honda Pilot and Volvo XC90. (See results at safercar.gov...
...wife promptly left town for a conference, leaving me, a semiretired journalist, in charge of this teen version of The Cannonball Run. The most likely problem, I thought, would be car trouble. Gabby drives a 1994 Volvo that she has personalized with dents, scratches, parking tickets, missing wheel covers and a trunk that won't open. But the indestructible Swedish oldsters don't flinch at being driven over curbs or smacking poles in parking lots...
...dark blue Volvo sped toward the guard post near Najaf's Safi al-Safa shrine just as the muezzin began his evening call to prayers. Inside the car, three gunmen prepared to fire. Their targets were members of the Mahdi Army, a band of militants loyal to the firebrand Shi'ite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, who has holed up in Najaf for the past month to avoid capture by the 2,500 U.S. soldiers surrounding the city. As the Volvo neared the tiny brick-and-reed building, a gunman in the car opened up with his AK-47, hitting...
With the U.S. seeking to avoid an outright confrontation with al-Sadr's forces inside Najaf, the holiest city for Iraq's majority Shi'ites, a shadowy group of al-Sadr's rivals appears to be taking matters into its own hands. Locals say the gunmen in the Volvo came from a new group calling itself the Thulfiqar Army, seemingly named for a famed two-pronged sword that in Shi'ite tradition was used by Imam Ali, the martyred son-in-law of the Prophet Muhammad. Two weeks ago, the group began distributing leaflets ordering al-Sadr to leave Najaf...
Created for women by the proud designers shown below and officially unveiled at the New York Auto Show last week, Volvo's "Your Concept Car" is supposed to be what women want. Some females found features like the ponytail rest a trifle sexist, but those who liked its handbag holders, computer-aided parking and easy-opening gull-wing doors will be happy to learn that the Volvo is just one of the formerly gender-neutral products being redone to suit them. Here's a sampler...