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29-MAR-2026 | Volvo’s “Americans are being driven” Ad

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Dan Bogachek
March 29, 2026

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Literally, and maybe figuratively as well.

When I first started working on this project, I gave it the working title, Toolbox. The simple tagline was: the swipe file on roids.

But the more I worked on it, the more it became clear that this wasn’t just a box of tools. Calling it a swipe file wasn’t accurate, either. Roided up, or otherwise.

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This, on the other hand, grows deeper over time. Its contents are living.

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New illustration — credit Pranav Venkitaraman.
Big thank you to Pranav!

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Volvo’s “Americans are being driven” Ad

More and more Americans are being driven to this conclusion.

In New York, 73,000 cars were abandoned last year.

In Chicago, people are running away from their cars at the rate of one every seven minutes.

The City of Los Angeles removes 1400 abandoned cars from the streets every month.

Detroit picks up 20,000 a year. Very quietly.

No wonder more people are buying Volvos than ever before. Volvo offers relief from what they’re running from.

Volvos are built to last. We can’t guarantee exactly how long, but we do know Volvos are driven an average of eleven years in Sweden before people give up on them.

Of course there are still more cars being abandoned in America than there are Volvos being sold.

We’re doing well, but at the rate they’re going we’ll never catch them. 🏁

  • Hook: social proof + ambiguous “this conclusion” to beg the question: “what’s the conclusion?”

  • Repetition + numbers paint a picture while creating credibility. The specificity makes it sticky. 73,000, one every seven minutes, 1400, 20,000.

  • And all of these stats point to what? “No wonder more people are buying Volvos than ever before.” Social proof does a lot of the heavy lifting in this one.

  • Punchline: “We could use your help — we’re carrying the team 😉”