In a fearful world, the Volvo makes me feel safe
There is a World of Volvo museum in Sweden which I long to see. It was made by the architect Henning Larsen, which makes me laugh because I have been pretending to be a Scandinavian architect driving an XC90 all week long. This columnist does not know who she is, which is a good thing because the car can show me. There is an urban myth that you cannot actually die in a Volvo, even of old age or hemlock World of Volvo’s interior is that of a whale but wooden, as if made for some red-headed Jonah who is into automobile safety. Still, the world can always surprise you. I did not know until I studied World of Volvo that there was once a genuinely hot Volvo: the P1800, which looks like it was made by Alfa Romeo in 1965, though it was initially built in West Bromwich.
