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Vintage Surreal Volvo Ad

A 70’s 244 cruises along a wind-swept landscape, slaloming around a reproduction of Cadillac Ranch. Over eerie electronic music the voice-over extolles the longevity of the Volvo, built for a life-span of “…16.2 years. It’ll be there long after todays fashion trends are dead and buried.” I’m looking at 17 years in January.

The Best Car to Die In?

death The Jalopnik blog rated the Volvo 240 as the 5th best car to die in because it’d be so damn hard to.

…if you manage to die in one of these â€” the automotive answer to “Why don’t they just make the whole airplane the same way they make the black box?” â€” you’re really trying. We believe effort should count for something in today’s shoddy, lackadaisical world.

Sweet black brick they have for an image.