Volvo V40 R-Design and Cross Country Get UK Pricing
9 Oct 2012, 08:30 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Volvo has just announced the pricing information for the new V40 R-Design, as well as the V40 Cross Country crossover. The R-Design D2 starts at £22,295, and it gets a lot of equipment and a f...
Volvo Future Plans Detailed: S60 and S80 Facelift, New XC90
5 Oct 2012, 09:33 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Volvo is working on a major refresh for its model lineup in the future. On the sidelines of the Paris Motor Show, the Swedish company’s head of marketing, Doug Speck, told Autonews Europe that...
Volvo May Miss Ambitious China Sales Goal for 2015
3 Oct 2012, 15:50 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Despite being Chinese-owned nowadays, Volvo is apparently not doing so well in China. Having set a sales goal for 2015 of 200,000 per year, officials may have to reconsider the figure, as sales are ...
First Volvo FH Built Gets Sold at Charity Auction
2 Oct 2012, 14:39 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Volvo’s new FH series of trucks is here, with a whole host of innovations, which will only serve to strengthen their excellent position on the market. The first FH to roll off the production l...
Volvo Shows Off Innovative New FH Series Trucks
2 Oct 2012, 14:27 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Volvo trucks are among the best-liked and most appreciated trucks in the world. Their durability, safety and fuel efficiency have always made them a prime choice for a very wide range of commercial ...
Volvo City Safety Lowers Insurance Rating for all UK-Bound V40s
2 Oct 2012, 14:10 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / It seems that Autonomous Emergency Braking (AEB) is here to stay. More and more manufacturers are and will be adopting it in the coming years, and it will slowly trickle down into even the most basi...
Paris 2012: Volvo V40 R-Design · Live Photos
28 Sep 2012, 13:41 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / The compact luxury market is really heating up this year. You’ve got the Mercedes A-Class, BMW 1-Series and Audi A3, all brand new and offering everything from economy to superb performance. ...
Predictions Suggest that by 2040, 75% Of Vehicles Will Be Autonomous
25 Sep 2012, 08:30 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Since you can now buy quite a few cars which have the capacity to drive themselves on the highway, it’s not hard to imagine what the technology may progress into, in the coming decades. Wi...
Volvo CEO Stefan Jacoby Suffers Mild Stroke
24 Sep 2012, 11:14 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Volvo Car’s CEO Stefan Jacoby will be on sick leave for about a month now, after he suffered a mild stroke, the company reported today. "I was lucky that it was a mild stroke," sa...
2013 Volvo V40 Cross Country Makes Video Debut
19 Sep 2012, 12:39 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / There are some cars that are so simple and elegant that they just make you want to be a Volvo owner. This is one of the, the all-wheel drive V40 Cross Country, which is just like the regular V40 hat...
Volvo SARTRE ‘Road Train’ Program Completed and Deemed Successful
19 Sep 2012, 11:46 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / In an effort to further reduce the nasty stuff that comes out the back of their cars, Volvo started a road train project which involved a pace-setting lead vehicle, which was to be followed by a num...
Volvo Shows Off New V40 Cross Country Ahead of Paris
19 Sep 2012, 07:54 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / With the XC60 and XC90 being so successful, Volvo was bound to want to enter the compact crossover market, as well. They have thus jacked up the all-new V40 hatchback, to create the V40 Cross Countr...
Next Volvo XC90 to Be Offered Only With Four-Cylinder Powerplants
13 Sep 2012, 14:18 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / This piece of news may be quite shocking to some, who know the current Volvo XC90, and the fact that the size of its engine range goes from 2.4 liters, to 4.4 liters. Well, in an effort to reduce th...
Volvo V40 R-Design Unveiled
12 Sep 2012, 11:21 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / The Volvo V40 is the safest car ever tested by Euro NCAP. It’s also practical, economical and offers German-rivaling build quality and luxury. But if all that sound a bit boring to you, there&...
Volvo Launches 2013 C30 Polestar Limited Edition in US
12 Sep 2012, 09:28 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Volvo and their in-house tuner Polestar have teamed to create a new limited edition model for the US market. The C30 compact 3-door hatchback is the beneficiary of the custom treatment in this case,...
2013 Volvo XC70 and S80 Recalled
4 Sep 2012, 16:17 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / The latest news from the “recall” area comes from Volvo, which is calling back 300 units of the XC70 and S80 models due to an issue with the tire pressure monitoring system (TPMS), as an...
Volvo V40 Euro NCAP Crash Test Result - Safest Model in the Segment
29 Aug 2012, 10:26 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Back in 2002, the world was amazed at how a small car like the then-new Renault Megane was able to score the maximum five-star rating from Euro NCAP. Since then, most cars in the segment have starte...
Volvo’s MINI Rival Rendered
23 Aug 2012, 09:36 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / With fuel prices rising, people are increasingly buying smaller cars and adding the luxury features they need to remind them of the big car they traded in. It’s a natural trend, especially in ...
Volvo Considering MINI Rival
21 Aug 2012, 08:45 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / A new report emerging this week suggests Volvo is considering a car that would directly compete with the MINI hatchback and the Audi A1. The Swedish carmaker’s CEO Stephan Jacoby told Autonews...
Woman Walks a Rope Between Two Rolling Volvo Trucks in New Ad
17 Aug 2012, 08:17 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / Creating a commercial for a new product in the automotive industry is anything but easy these days. This is because, over the years, the agencies have though about everything, with mind-blowing budg...