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Volvo Buys Polestar, Dozens of Volvo Fans Rejoice

Volvo announced today that it has acquired 100 percent of the tuning firm Polestar, maker of the divine and incredibly rare hot-rod Volvo S60 and V60 Polestar. This means more Polestars for everyone, which is excellent news for the tiny, fiercely loyal tribe of high-performance-Volvo fans worldwide. – We’re not joking about the rarity factor: Volvo built only 750 Polestar-tuned S60s and V60s for 2015, a mere 120 of which were brought to U.S. shores—80

Volvo Buys Polestar, Dozens of Volvo Fans Rejoice

Volvo announced today that it has acquired 100 percent of the tuning firm Polestar, maker of the divine and incredibly rare hot-rod Volvo S60 and V60 Polestar. This means more Polestars for everyone, which is excellent news for the tiny, fiercely loyal tribe of high-performance-Volvo fans worldwide. – We’re not joking about the rarity factor: Volvo built only 750 Polestar-tuned S60s and V60s for 2015, a mere 120 of which were brought to U.S. shores—80

Sponsored: Grab Your Daily Dose of Nostalgia with 7 Vintage Michelin Radial Tire Ads

– Tires are not something most folks think about often, except for, you know, when something goes wrong or a new set must be purchased. That frequency of attention belies tires’  importance and their prevalence in everyday life. Michelin has been at the forefront of tire manufacturing and technology for over 100 years, which means it lived through the introduction of key new technologies like the radial tire, as well as advances in advertising. Take

Sponsored: Grab Your Daily Dose of Nostalgia with 7 Vintage Michelin Radial Tire Ads

– Tires are not something most folks think about often, except for, you know, when something goes wrong or a new set must be purchased. That frequency of attention belies tires’  importance and their prevalence in everyday life. Michelin has been at the forefront of tire manufacturing and technology for over 100 years, which means it lived through the introduction of key new technologies like the radial tire, as well as advances in advertising. Take

Claret Jug the sweetest prize as Rose chases childhood dream

By Tony Jimenez ST ANDREWS, Scotland (Reuters) – Justin Rose will be chasing a childhood dream with a prize even more precious than a Mars bar or train set when he begins his pursuit of the British Open on Thursday. The world number eight is the highest-ranked Englishman in the St Andrews field and his country’s most likely candidate to end a long, barren run without an Open winner, extending

Claret Jug the sweetest prize as Rose chases childhood dream

By Tony Jimenez ST ANDREWS, Scotland (Reuters) – Justin Rose will be chasing a childhood dream with a prize even more precious than a Mars bar or train set when he begins his pursuit of the British Open on Thursday. The world number eight is the highest-ranked Englishman in the St Andrews field and his country’s most likely candidate to end a long, barren run without an Open winner, extending

Could Plastic Highways Mean the End of Potholes?

-The deterioration of our asphalt roads poses a long-term maintenance problem, requiring extensive digging and construction (and horrible ruts and potholes when they simply aren’t maintained). So why not make roads out of easy-to-replace plastic slabs? – Working with the city of Rotterdam, a Dutch company called VolkerWessels has recently proposed exactly that. It wants to develop and construct plastic roads that are as easy to remove as they are