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There has been a dearth of news—good or bad—out of the iconic Swedish brand since Ford sold to it Geely more than three years ago in a $1.8 billion deal. Frankly, the future didn’t look very bright back then. Ford had tried and failed for years to make the brand more competitive. Geely’s prospects hardly seemed much better. But amid the uncertainty, Volvo could still hang its hat on safety, premium Scandinavian styling, and station wagons. Then Volvo even stopped selling wagons in 2011. Things seemed bleak, indeed.
I suffer from the not-uncommon tendency to fixate on what's new and what's next. In the realm of cars, the steady drip of ever-better machines induces the proclivity to gaze longingly at renderings of the next best things while sometimes glossing over the oddball machines and entertaining details that are here right now. Let us then take a short break from daydreaming of turbo BMW M4s and sort-of-affordable Alfa Romeos to revisit some of 2013's more esoteric encounters.
Volkswagen’s first electric vehicle in the U.S. will be the 2015 Volkswagen e-Golf that makes its North American debut at the 2013 Los Angeles auto show next week. This EV was originally released for European buyers at the 2013 Frankfurt Motor Show, and now Volkswagen has confirmed that the e-Golf will go on sale in the U.S. in the fourth quarter of 2014.