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INDIVIDUALLY DESIGNED FITNESS PLANS, AND CUSTOMIZED ¢GRoup TRAINING Upon REQUEST wondered I designed ~ Volvo shoots out of the hole frantically. The TRACS trac- gets greeted at the gate by a driver holding signage, I can tell you with assurance, it is often some hack who happens to own a working ball point pen. Writers it seems occasionally merit the four star treatment. I lounged in what I could only assume was (MAKE YOUR OREAM A REALITY. HOW? WORKOUTS WITH A CERTIFIED PROFESSIONAL eONE ON ONE TRAINING e TANDEM TRAINING I always as perfect ski vehicle. Roomy so I can fit my gear, yet it has to handle like a sports car, top speed of at least 125, and it has to be four wheel drive. Throw in Volvo’s legendary safety and you © have their new wagon. I took the wheel of a metallic green wagon with 190 horsepower AWD and traction control. Santa Barbara was, quite naturally, lacking in snow. Yet out of my deep respect for you the reader, I felt it was important to test the tractive ability of this rig. Soon after taking the wheel I was pirouetting like an accomplished dancer through a large empty loose gravel and dirt lot. When full throttle is applied, and the clutch dumped like yesterdays news, the Upon landing in Santa Barbara I realized © Martin. been listening to me Coupe and AWD Wagon The tickets which arrived via Fed Ex said I would | named light lievable vehicle. It is as if someone had with him. On police shows. people always seem to be encouraged to keep Volvo C70 the loony talking, so I tried to do just that. Dan eventually offered me a three day gig in Santa Barbara, where they would have a pile of new all wheel drive turbo charged Volvo’s as well as their screamingly fast new coupe. I accepted the offer, all the while assuming this was either a gag from an old college chum, or a certifiable nut. ver drive pressure turbo wagon. An unwieldy name for an unbe- that I was in error, and Volvo North America was “putting on the dog” to use a colloquialism from my youth. A shiny V90 Volvo sedan awaited me at the gate, as well as a shiny dri- EVENINGS FROM The real motivation for this trip was the new V70 all travel by fast turboprop up to Santa Barbara, and then stay at “Fess Parker’s Red Lion Resort.” Being a “glass half _ empty” kind of a guy, the usage of the name “Fess” made me assume that I was staying in some one star flea bag. \ oe & olsen I saw the faded yellow sign which proclaimed “DIP” down to a respectable 100 km/h in no time. Upon exiting the “DIP” we came across a curious California Highway Patrol officer who gave us close scrutiny. I don’t know whether it was the metallic saffron coupe unlike anything else on the market, the smell of burnt rubber, or the tangible look of fear on my passenger Art Battaglia’s face. I have seen that look before...in my abnormal psych text book under “traumatic stress disorder.” It was an expression which came more and more easily to Art’s face during the three day trial-by-fire. Art created his own problems by presenting me with a perfectly good 1998 Volvo C70 coupe and giving me carte blanche to “experience the full envelope of performance.” Sporting 236 horsepower, 243 foot pounds of torque, and a 225/45 17” tire/wheel combo; this was some ungodly fast Volvo. Sounds funny doesn’t it... Volvo, while adhering to safety, has managed to gain an affinity for + AT Tel 801 8 969-9039 |