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- Art Center grad with automotive product planning, development, and research experience over 34 years with Volvo and Ford. Former Petersen Museum vault docent and freelancer for Bring a Trailer. Monthly EV sales reports and curated alternative powertrain news reports for Motor Intelligence. Still playing with cars after all these years, from a Sunbeam Tiger to a stick-shift Mazda5 van...
![When we said goodbye to Valborg, or trusty ’86 745 GLE, in 2013, we needed another daily driver. Ever on the alert for another stick-shift to replace the Volvo, one […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Mazda5-side-view.jpg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "Our 2010 Mazda5: A Stick Shift Zoom-Zoom Minivan Joins the Family")
![They both sported the Volvo “ironmark” in their grilles, and both were station wagons. That, and possibly a few miscellaneous nuts and bolts, was just about as far as their […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/740GLE5-e1735942494458.jpg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "A Tale of Two Volvos: A Slow And Boxy 1986 745 GLE Wagon Replaces The Fast And Sleek 2007 V70R")
![After we said goodbye to the ’65 Ranchero when it crossed the auction block in Palm Springs, there was an obvious empty space in our Riverside County, California garage. What […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/66-Mustang-in-Perris-2-e1735429125955.jpg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "My ’66 & ’67 Mustangs: Keeping The Mustang Flame Alive in the Southwest")
![When it became clear that moving west with (most of) my Volvo product planning/product management colleagues was the only way to ensure my continued employment in that department, the […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Ranchero-in-Desert-e1734817039838.jpg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "A 1965 289 V8 4-Speed Ford Ranchero Finds Its Way Into Our New Four-Car Garage")
![If a wise man once said that change was the only constant, then he surely must have been privy to Volvo’s organizational charts during my career there. In the […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Volvo-News-July-76-Headline-rotated-e1734215963555.jpg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "My Years At Volvo: Organizational Ch-ch-changes")
![This week, let’s set the wayback machine for mid-1999 and Gothenburg, Sweden, for one more look behind the curtain during the development of the second-generation Volvo S40. As the sole […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/S40-Gen-2-cutaway-view.jpg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "Working Where Volvos Were Born – Part Six")
![My assignment in Gothenburg was in many ways the highlight of my thirty-plus years with Volvo. Representing North America’s interests on the project team tasked with developing the replacements for […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/P1X-sedan-and-wagon.jpg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "Working Where Volvos Were Born – Part Five")
![In last week’s post I noted that in the world of automotive product planning, if you achieve a .500 batting average, you’re doing well. Over the years, I surely […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Volvo-P70-P90-Evolution-e1731706115399.jpg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "Working Where Volvos Were Born – Part Four")
![Last week’s post briefly touched on the initial design ideation for Volvo’s next-generation small cars which would replace the Swedish automaker’s compact S40 sedan and V40 station wagon. Those quick […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Volvo-Safety-Pins.jpg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "Auto-Biography: Working Where Volvos Are Born – Part Three")
![When my Swedish colleagues returned from their 1998 summer vacation period, I found myself working in the Marketing team for a new-car project intended to replace Volvo’s first-generation S40 and […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Volvo-Concept-Wagon.jpg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "Auto-Biography: Working Where Volvos Are Born – Part Two")
![When we ended last week’s post, I had moved from New Jersey to Sweden, where I was to work on the marketing side of a small-car project just then beginning […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/66-Mustang-GT-Conv-1-e1729801265282.jpg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "My ’66 Mustang GT: Playing The Ponies In Gothenburg")
![Less than a month after competing in my first four-day, 1000-mile car rally (read about it here) I was in a business-class seat on an SAS flight from Newark Airport […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Landvetter-Airport-e1729287503330.png?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "Auto-Biography: Working Where Volvos Are Born – Part One")
![Toward the end of 1977, my boss at Volvo of America Corporation asked me to develop a few simple idea sketches based on the C202, a Volvo military 4×4 […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/1979-volvo-c202-laplander-ext-e1728506897742.jpg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "Curbside Find: The Volvo C202")
![In last week’s post, I listed multiple-day rally competitions as one of the ways in which to enjoy getting behind the wheel of my second (and current) Sunbeam Tiger. During […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/98-NE-1000-Tiger-resting-e1728165470200.jpg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "Rallying on the NE 1000 – A Tiger? In New England?")
![One might have thought that my first Sunbeam Tiger experience (recently described here and and here) would have put me off that particular model of Little British Car for good. […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Tiger-at-Lewis-Morris-3-e1727214535942.jpg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "Buying a Mustang GT350 or a Tiger – No Bad Choices")
