All-Electric Volvo C30 - Green Car of the Year in China
20 Jul 2012, 14:36 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Volvo’s C30 EV has been awarded the coveted title of ‘Green Car of the Year’ in China, during the 4th New Energy Mobility Summit, after having delivered 15 cars to the city of Shan...
Russian Girl Tests Volvo City Safety
20 Jul 2012, 10:27 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Volvo has fitted its XC60 with their new and advanced CitySafety system which detects (among other things) pedestrians. At first it warns the driver, and if he or she doesn’t react, the car wi...
Volvo Recalling 2011-2013 S80 Due to Transmission Software Issue
16 Jul 2012, 14:08 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / Volvo has recently announced that it is recalling a part of the 2011-2013 S80 models due to a gearbox software issue, with the campaign including a total of 1,469 vehicles. The transmission softw...
Volvo Might Make S60 Polestar After All
13 Jul 2012, 08:06 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / After having sold the only S60 Polestar in existence, Volvo are apparently pondering the idea of actually putting it into limited production, after seeing the amount of interest it accumulated. ...
Volvo Developing Animal Avoidance Safety Tech
11 Jul 2012, 15:06 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Hitting animals which stray onto the road is a major problem, especially in Europe’s northern-most countries (Sweden - 40,000 animal related accidents per year, Norway and Finland), which, des...
Flying Car Introduced by Volvo
10 Jul 2012, 12:17 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / Many sci-fi movies that were released up to a point in the 20th century portrayed the years we are living now as being the era of the flying car. You exit your floating apartment and, at the touch o...
Volvo S60 Polestar First Video Footage
6 Jul 2012, 09:44 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / The Swedish people are a strange bunch, who speak a very viking-like language and make furniture out of flexible fur trees. However, the country is also in love with cars and speed. It seems that...
Volvo Fined for Delaying Recalls
4 Jul 2012, 08:51 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Volvo is probably getting a bit tired of being known as a carmaker that only makes safe automobiles. But even so, this image is what’s keeping them afloat. But the Swedish automaker has bee...
Volvo Showing V60 Plug-In Hybrid at Goodwood
27 Jun 2012, 08:48 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / The Goodwood Festival of Speed is the venue of choice for Volvo to give the public the very first chance to take their ultra-efficient V60 plug-in hybrid for a spin. The figures seem promising, ...
Possible Fiat-Volvo Partnership Speculated
25 Jun 2012, 13:21 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Recent rumors have hinted that Fiat and Volvo could form a partnership, as the Chinese Swedish manufacturer is looking to build small and medium-sized cars in the US. The catch is that if an automak...
Autonomous Emergency Braking – Why, When, How?
23 Jun 2012, 11:28 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / It’s no surprise that a lot of car manufacturers try their best to develop new safety systems given that so many people are killed on the road every year. Statistics prove that no less than 30...
Volvo S60 Polestar Sells for $300,000
20 Jun 2012, 08:55 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / After seeing just how much attention of the positive kind with the aptly named C30 PCP, Volvo could not have missed the opportunity to let Polestar, who create their touring cars, fiddle with the ne...
Geely Shows Self-Developed Six-Speed Automatic Transmission
19 Jun 2012, 13:20 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / The lack of independently-develped automatic transmissions has been a major problem for all Chinese manufacturers. Now, Geely, instead of using parts from other manufacturers, have developed their o...
Volvo XC40 with Interior Revealed in Latest Spyshots
14 Jun 2012, 11:41 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / The Volvo XC40 is a pretty hot topic these days, as people want to know how the Swedish carmaker’s latest crossover looks like. We have previously shown you the car with no camo on, but that w...
Volvo S60 Polestar Teased
7 Jun 2012, 14:40 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Swedish carmaker Volvo has plans of turning Polestar into a sort of Skunk Works division, their very own in-house tuner. The two companies already collaborated on the 400 horsepower 2.5T-powered C30...
Heico Sportiv Previews Volvo V40 Tuning Kit Again
7 Jun 2012, 12:01 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / Back in May, Heico Sportiv released a sketch of an upcoming modification package for the Volvo V40 and now the tuner is back to tease us some more. However, this time we get actual images - one the ...
Volvo XC40 Spied Completely Naked
5 Jun 2012, 09:33 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / A little bit earlier, we showed you a series of spyshots of the upcoming Volvo XC40, a crossover that will use the new V40 as a starting point. We are now back on the topic, as the vehicle has been ...
Spyshots: Volvo XC40
5 Jun 2012, 09:14 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Volvo has jacked up the brand new architecture from the V40 to create the XC40, a subcompact crossover with Swedish reasonableness and styling. The car has been caught by out photographers as it was...
Volvo Pondering C90 Luxury Coupe
4 Jun 2012, 09:18 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / The fuss about Volvo being taken over by Chinese carmaker Geely is now over and the Swedish carmaker is focusing on developing new models that will allow it to live its new life. One of these models...
Next Volvo XC90 Rumors
1 Jun 2012, 08:44 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / The Volvo XC90 has been on the market since 2002, so saying that the Swedish SUV needs a replacement would be a major understatement. The carmaker is well aware of this and is working to give us a n...