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Volvo's 2019 V60 wagon handles snowstorms like a champ

Our plane landed in Denver just past midnight. It was April and blizzard season wasn't done yet. Snow fell thick and heavy.

My wife, my daughter and I packed our gear into a new 2019 Volvo V60 station wagon and set off for Copper Mountain, where 13-year-old Skye was entered in the half-pipe at snowboarding's annual national competition, where Olympic hopefuls compete.

But first we had to get through the blizzard intact. The snowstorm formed weird, disorienting patterns that turned the windshield into some kind of video game, at times completely obscuring my view of the road. Hands gripped tight on the wheel, I prepared for the worst, the ladies

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