The Basics of Driving a Volvo in the Snow

Several years of living in California had helped me forget most of what I knew about driving in the snow. Not that I ever had any formal training anyway. I'd also forgotten just how cold it can be on parts of the continent that have a real winter. And so I arrived at Volvo's 2005 Winter Test in Québec City, Quebec, wearing $30 hiking boots, unlined jeans and no coat (forgot that, too). It was January and it was about zero degrees outside.

The next morning, bundled up in a borrowed coat, I trudged out to the hotel parking lot ... Back to article