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A coworker let me have her old Rolling Stones magazine (Issue #920, April 17, 2002, with Lisa Marie Presley on the cover) to read. If you're at a library, book store, etc., check out page 72. Here's the article:
Section: "Your Pick -> Cool Classic"
Title: Beat-up Volvo Station Wagon
Subtitle: It's fast, it's durable, and it's the perfect vehicle for mooning.
By: Jacob Ditkoff
After years of ridicule, it turns out that frost-haired soccer moms were onto something solid: Piece of sh*t Eighties Volvo station wagons rule the roadways. Americans are trading in their 2002 Audi Quattros for $5,000 Ronald Reagon-era Volvos that look and drive like new. For three grand, drivers can get a wagon that looks like hell, but that's all the better. The Swedish wonders are as fast as Porsche 944s and can take a pounding, too (two Canadians drove a Volvo wagon around the Earth in seventy-four days). But the junker's chief asset is the "way-back seat," something SUVs and minivans have done away with - it faces the cars behind you, leaving wasted buddies free to press ham or twelve-year-olds to give tailgaters the finger. It's what Volvo owner Kurt Cobain knew ten years ago but the rest of us are only discovering today: Safety, style and a big "f*ck you" is a combination that will always rock hard.
The picture shows a blue 1975-1980 wagon, with the caption "Boxy, beat-up, and beautiful."
Just thought I'd share...
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Regards,
Eric Staufer,
'89 244DL 119k
My 240 Page
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