Volvo SUV cleared for takeoff in this test

Truckers News Staff (TN)

Dec 7, 2014

The Volvo “ditch test”.

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Volvo has started testing its vehicles with what is known as the “ditch test,” to find out what happens when a car, on this case one of its SUVs, goes into a ditch and flies back out.

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