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Stockholms stadshus in Stockholm 🇸🇪

Volvo Photo Locations Part 178 Stockholm City Hall (Swedish: Stockholms stadshus or Stadshuset locally) is the building of the Municipal Council for the City of Stockholm in Sweden. It stands on the eastern tip of Kungsholmen island, next to Riddarfjärden’s northern shore and facing the islands of Riddarholmen and Södermalm. It houses offices and conference […]

Saxo Bank HQ at Philip Heymans Allé in Hellerup – DK 🇩🇰

International Volvo Photo Locations Part 162 At Philip Heymans Allé in Hellerup, just north of Copenhagen is the HQ of Danish bank Saxo Bank. The street is named after Philip Wulff Heyman, one of the founders of the Tuborg Brewery, which was located in this Tuborg Hamn area. Saxo Bank is a young dynamic internet […]

Manövergången (2) in Göteborg

Volvo Photo Locations Part 170 Manövergången is a street in Göteborg alongside the Göta älv (or Göta river). The building is the pictures is one of the workshop halls of the Eriksbergs Mekaniska Verkstads AB, a Swedish shipbuilding company based in Göteborg. It delivered its last ship in 1979. Founded in 1850 by Christian Barchman, […]

Katarinavägen in Stockholm 🇸🇪

Volvo Photo Locations Part 169 Katarinavägen is a street on Södermalm in central Stockholm. Katarinavägen is named after Katarinaberget (or Katarina mountain) on the outermost edge where the road goes. The road begins at Slussen or Slussplan, crosses Karl Johan lock at the western gate bridge and continue through Ryssgården, Stadsgården 6, Glasbruksgatan and along […]

Strömkajen on Södra Blasieholmskajen in Stockholm 🇸🇪

Volvo Photo Locations Part 167 Södra Blasieholmskajen, Strömkajen or Södra Blasieholmshamnen is a quay and a street in Stockholm, which stretches from the Strömgatan and Stallgatan to the west to Skeppsholmsbron in the East. Strömkajen is the center of all Waxholmsbolagets boat traffic from Stockholm to the archipelago as well as a base for many […]

Järkholmsvägen in Hovås near Göteborg 🇸🇪

Volvo Photo Locations Part 166 Järkholmsvägen is a street in Hovås Askim, south of Göteborg, where in previous times, the coastal train (Säröbanan) from Göteborg to Särö used to run. On this formal train track, a beautiful walking and cycling path has been created along the west coast. At Järkholmsvägen, you will also find Hovås […]

Hovås Kallbadhus in Göteborg

Volvo Photo Locations Part 165 Hovås Kallbadhus is located south of Göteborg in Hovås, Askim. According to the people who live and work here, one of earth’s most beautiful places. It does not matter if the sun is shining or the rain is pouring down and the wind whips. Beautiful and powerful it is; or […]

Volvo 1800 ESC by Coggiola

Historic Volvo Protoype re-discovered! At the Retro Auto & Moto Galicia 2015 which was held in Vigo (Spain) between march 20 and 22, a unique Volvo prototype from the early seventies was discovered, images appeared at a spanish Volvo Forum. This prototype is the Volvo 1800 ESC, alson knaown as Volvo Viking, a protoype built […]

White XC90 pulling a 262C

Remember this post I wrote in 2011: One of the nicest combinations man can dream off…. Now there is an another combination to dream for: Volvo Cars will be exhibiting five cars with a link to Bertone, the Italian car designer, at the massive vintage and classic car show in the German city of Essen […]

Dutch GP F1 History

How about the Dutch Grand Prix Formula One? The Dutch Grand Prix (Grote Prijs van Nederland) was a Formula One automobile race held at Circuit Zandvoort, near Zandvoort, the Netherlands, from 1952 to 1985. It was a part of the World Championship from 1952, and designated the European Grand Prix twice, 1962 and 1976, when […]