Driving a Volvo XC90 SUV for a week taught me a few lessons about the leisure auto market. It also gave me new perspective on city driving and being a short mom. My own car is a little Honda Civic ...

Hopefully, many of you have already read the two-part travail of my tough Tile tracker and what it helped me locate: a Volvo key fob inadvertently “eaten” by my Honda snowblower earlier that same day.

As if our mobile phones weren’t already super-important to us, Volvo plans to make them even more vital to our lifestyle, and it won’t be long until it happens. If the Swedish brand is to be trusted, ...