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Old Feb 16th, 2024, 13:50   #1
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What i find amazing about that test...the Sunroof on the Volvo still dont even shatter...
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Long story short but I once had the fortune to talk to a chap called Gordon Brown who I bumped into in an airport purely by coincidence, he says he was on the design team of the XC90 and talked a lot about the use of boron steel to make it much stronger than anything else on the road. It was the first mass produced car that had included the robotised use of boron steel. Previously, the C70 convertible had boron steel but that (apparently) was hand made.....
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