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The second movie New Moon opens in theatres November 20. If you have a teenage daughter, she’s probably camped out in front of a downtown theatre right now, fogging up the ticket window with breathy anticipation.

English actor Robert Pattinson, plays pouting blood sucker and love interest Edward Cullen to actress Kristen Stewart’s love-struck mortal Bella in the popular tetralogy (four-banger).

In the first film, Edward gets to rip around the damp roads of the misty and moody Pacific Northwest coastal town of Forks, Washington, in a silver Volvo C30 at breakneck speeds. The car appears so often in Twilight, that it’s almost a character itself (notably Greig’s favourite character).

As a vampire, Edward has the power to drive inexplicably fast without worry of a fender bender.

He also appears to have a built-in radar detector due to mind-reading capabilities.

Unlike us mere mortals, he can hear the cop’s conversation beyond the bend.

Some Twihards may be in for a surprise at the New Moon premiere: Edward has traded in his flashy C30 for the roomy family-minded Volvo XC60 T6 AWD crossover.

Spoiler alert: Edward manages to impregnate Bella with a potentially fanged fetus in the fourth and final film Breaking Dawn.

Unfortunately for Bella, there’s a gang of “bad” vampires after her (a.k.a. human blood suckers, unlike Edward who subsists on deer and cougar blood). Edward’s raison d’être is now to keep Bella safe.

For vampires and customers looking for a Volvo with all-road get-away capability, the XC60 crossover equipped with City Safety is a solution.

City Safety is the very latest in safety technology.

It’s a low-speed automatic braking system.

This unique technology from Volvo helps Edward reduce the chance of a low-speed collision.

If Edward does not brake in time, the XC60 will do it for him.

City Safety monitors vehicles ahead — stopped at a light or moving in the same direction. Situated at the top of the windshield are laser sensors that gauge the distance between Edward’s XC60 and the car in front.

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