A Founding Father of Volvo in America

Volvo Cars reached a major milestone recently in their 70-year history in the US: 5,000,000 cars sold. Village Automotive is incredibly proud to have played a major role in Volvo’s success here in America. We’re not only the oldest Volvo organization in New England,...

What’s an Imported Car Brand?!

Really interesting fact: no OEM imported more cars into the United States last year than General Motors. Not even Toyota. Toyota still generates a larger percentage of its sales overall (51.4%), but GM brought into America 1.23 million vehicles from other nations,...

Uncertainty

Stephen Covey famously stated, “If there’s one thing that’s certain in business, it’s uncertainty.” While this is undoubtedly true, we wouldn’t mind if the fire hose of uncertainty was turned down a bit these days!Yet one thing I know for...

What’s a Saloon?

Every once in a while you come across the term “saloon” as it relates to cars, and you wonder why people are using a term from the Old West to describe a car. When you dive into the etymology, it actually makes pretty logical sense.  📜 Origin of...

3+ Years of Driving an EV

I started driving an EV every day in the fall of 2021. As I was cruising up Route 2 on a frigid evening this past week, I was struck by how much in that time I’ve come to love driving an EV.I preface this post by stating that I would prefer an EV for a myriad of...