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Re: S6 Found

At 6:54 PM +0000 11/6/99, Jim Haseltine wrote:
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>From: Brett Dikeman <brett@pdikeman.ne.mediaone.net>
>  > BTW, about the Volvo police cars, go to www.volvocars.com, click on
>  > special purpose vehicles, then police.  Click on a few of the links
>  > at the bottom of the toolbar; one of the pages shows a couple
>  > Canadian staties with a volvo or two, an ensemble of police cars in
>  > Sweeden, and a pair of Brits taking delivery of a Volvo(marked POLIS,
>  > which is sweedish for Police, so I think either the picture's caption
>  > is wrong, or Volvo messed up and painted it incorrectly, but I guess
>  > it gets the point across anyway.)
>
>Guess I must be looking at a different page, the one I see has a RCMP behind
>the lh door of his car, two Swedish cops with their car marked POLIS and
>what looks like a full division of UK traffic cops with a fleet of cars,
>mostly marked POLICE across the bonnet.

Nope, same page.  They fixed it since last time I looked(about a week 
ago) or I might have read it wrong.

FYI, the direct URL(the website is a PITA to navigate to get to this page):
http://www.car.volvo.se/specialvehicles/police/ref_s70v70.asp

may have to load it twice to get rid of the "you've been logged off" 
junk.  Thanks to a lousy website design, the URL will only load the 
center page, not the tool bars or anything, so you'll have to go back 
to www.volvocars.com and select special vehicles.


Flip on over to the "medial" section, to see an amusing photo of what 
looks like a love child between a  960(V90) wagon and one of those 
european van-car delivery/cargo things.  If you use IE, you can see 
all the nifty steps involved in stretching it, building the huge box 
on the end, etc.  Quite the paint job on the V70 medical duty 
vehicle...red with lightning bolts?  Sweeden!  Where did -that- come 
from? :-)



Still, I like the fire-engine-red A4 Fire Chief's car better :-)

(yes, Audi has a "special vehicles" division too, complete with A4/A6 
ambulances, a4 police cars, etc.)

Brett

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