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so for the internship I get to drive a brand new white Volvo?! Fantastic! ...... oh wait.

This truck is fully loaded. According to the description and Volvo's comments on youtube it weighs 40 tons.

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Hope the gas tanker behind the Volvo also has some sort of nifty brake.

Volvo... I wonder how many lives were saved thanks to them?

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Volvo has always been the brick-shithouse of automobiles-Wonder if that driver was sore after all this??
You'd think that Volvos' would be barred world-wide from entering demolition derbys...

My 2000 Volvo S70 has 330,000 KM's on it. Best, toughest car I've ever owned. I do understand the newer models are not what they used to be. Really though, what is made to last today?

Swedish Volvo rednecks - or "raggare", as they're known locally..

Whenever I see something like this I always think 'how do the people running these scams get away with it?'

Then I read the comments here and realise people are far too uninformed to understand the problems. I'm not going to say stupid, just uninformed. Physics, science generally and maths are seen as geeky subjects studied by nerds which can be safely ignored by the cool kids because they'll never need them in real life. This leads to the completely uninformed comments above. Anyone who thinks this could work is wrong. If you think it will extend the range you are wrong.

There is a hell of a lot of money to be made from fuel efficiency in cars. Which do you think is more likely: Ford, BMW, Mercedes, VW, Honda, Toyota, Volvo, GM, Dodge, et al with all the hundreds of millions of pounds or dollars or Yen or whatever they spend on development missed something a farmer in China was able to build in his garage - or the farmer in China is wrong? Add to the car makers all the companies who make planes and trains and boats and it shows a pretty obvious fact.

Yep, the Chinese farmer is wrong. Simple.

But the worst thing about this video is that it exists. I'm sure farmers all over the world come up with stupid ideas all the time (as do people from other walks of life too!), but that doesn't mean they need to make a video about it.

Volvo! Because they won't let you drive the T72 in town and we've all seen the dash cams!

I find it laughable that they allowed the Jeep engineers to attempt to "fix" the problem on-site. The important variables are: A) vertical center of gravity, B) track (width between wheels), and C) tires and tire pressure (coefficient of friction). Probably in that order.

They can't do much of anything significant to alter any of those variables on-site -- they are design issues. Loading the vehicle down with a shitload of weight to lower the center of gravity (a little) "helped" slightly in terms of the roll, but put way more stress on the tires. Still, it did provide some useful information to the engineers in that they know to focus redesign work on getting the engine mount and other heavy bits lower in the frame.

So the thing to take away from that is that yes, the Jeep needs a redesign (I wouldn't buy one with that problem), but don't read too much into the "failures" caused by their adding weight to the vehicle. I'd wager that if you loaded the same weight into the Volkswagen and Volvo they tested/praised, you'd get a hell of a lot of blowouts also. Kudos to those models for not needing a redesign and handling the test well, but to me I saw the Jeep engineers simply doing what was possible on-site to figure out what needs to be done to address the problem.

I was fined for parking in my yard a few years ago when people across the street have been doing it for years. The reason I was fined? Obstructing the sidewalk. There's no sidewalk in my yard, it stops about a block before my house. When I brought this to the attention of the local courthouse they told me that I was fined because if there would have been a sidewalk there, I would have been blocking it

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I fucking hate shit like this. I recently received a notice of violation from the city regarding my car being parked in my front year. How much grass do you see in any of the front yards here? None. All the yards here are rock and gravel. It's too costly and wasteful to maintain grass in 115 degree summers. Keep in mind it's not some shitty, broken-down car on blocks. It's an 04 Volvo S60 that's in perfect running order with no cosmetic damage. It's my fucking yard. I should be able to park my car there. I understand that the intent of the law is to keep heaps of junk from being stashed there, but fuck.

Yeah, the intent of the law is to legislate against poor people, but apparently we can't make a law against being poor. Maybe some day congress will get its shit together.>> ^MarineGunrock:

I fucking hate shit like this. I recently received a notice of violation from the city regarding my car being parked in my front year. How much grass do you see in any of the front yards here? None. All the yards here are rock and gravel. It's too costly and wasteful to maintain grass in 115 degree summers. Keep in mind it's not some shitty, broken-down car on blocks. It's an 04 Volvo S60 that's in perfect running order with no cosmetic damage. It's my fucking yard. I should be able to park my car there. I understand that the intent of the law is to keep heaps of junk from being stashed there, but fuck.