What have you hauled in your Volvo?

[Cees Klumper]

Lots of wagons and sedans, so I will weigh in with my 2001 C70 T5 convertible hauling experiences. We moved house several times, from Amsterdam to Geneva in 2010 and then from Geneva to a small town in France in 2016. Each time the C70 hauled impressive amounts of 'stuff', mostly laden in my very old yet very capable trailer (covered when required), including a few hundred gallons of automotive paint, several hundreds of kilos of granite, a 500 kg safe, a couple of 1960-ies Mercedes car engines, copious amounts of wood, and all manner of furniture and tools. Currently, the car is in our place in France and each Summer I still haul quantities of leftover 'stuff' to the city dump with the C70 and the trailer. What surprised me in all of this is that the fuel economy does not suffer as much as I would have thought, on the longer highway trips.
Two scary moments while towing were, once on a French autoroute, the trailer started to sway back and forth (you know, the kind that usually ends with the car and trailer on their side) while my wife was driving - she cool-headed applied just the right amount of braking pressure to end the sway. The second time was when I was on a small French country road during twilight, and a deer jumped in front of the car. I applied the brakes as hard as I could, but of course with the trailer behind me loaded to the max, the car took what seemed to be ages to actually slow down. I did not hit the dear but I remember the moment to this day.

[erikv11]

The ash (this pic) was dead before felling so it's drier and much less dense than the oak I was hauling earlier this winter, and I can load up the cargo space more without low riding the V70. This is probably about 900 pounds.

hauling ash 98 V70

[volvolugnut]

That looks impressive.
volvolugnut

[abscate]

A trunk in the trunk!