128 Volvo Closes Down

With the shuttering of 128 Volvo, you no longer can buy a Volvo , get your Volvo serviced, or purchase any Volvo genuine parts at 614 North Ave in Wakefield. It’s the end of an era. Volvo was always an outlier when it came to small, local ownership of their...

Spend Your $$ On Your Website

What a dealer owns in their inventory – the amount and quality of the vehicles they own in order to resell – is the most important driver of their marketing and advertising efforts. Cars drive clicks and eventual buyers. Dealers should be doing everything...

First Drive: my Hybrid

Been driving a Volvo hybrid for about 3 months now – here are the initial impressions: I average over 100 mpg. Granted I drive mostly local roads, but that is fantastic. I used to care more about how fast I got somewhere – now I’m satisfied watching...

Auto Engineering Turns Soft

All of the talk about Tesla revolves around a few topics: they are burning through money – building cars is hard – that’s why it has been many decades since a new car company came about. They will flame out. they are damn cool, I want one. they are...

Changes in an Electric World

Just about every week vehicle manufacturers are coming out with news about the future electrification of their fleet. Volvo made a huge splash by announcing the electrification of their entire brand. Pretty much every German brand is diving in, trying to put the word...

Can we retire the hackneyed sterotypes please?

Re-posting this from our old blog because it is one of my favorites! Pretty harsh opinion column in the Boston Globe this weekend, talking up Tesla and their desire to directly sell their cars to the public, versus the perceived downfalls of our current system of...