Volvo S60 R Polestar Rendering
30 May 2012, 14:09 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / No automaker becomes famous for making safe, boring and efficient car. But volvo is about all those things, plus a bit of sensible Swedish design on top. So while engineers have been working on airb...
Biodiesel Race Car by Heico Previews Volvo V40 Mods
30 May 2012, 07:29 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Due on sale in July, the V40 is a very important car for Volvo, a company which has suffered from the lack of a Focus-sized hatchback to take the fight to its more premium rivals, like the new Audi ...
SARTRE Road Train Project - First Test on European Roads
28 May 2012, 14:16 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / SARTRE stands for Safe Road Trains for the Environment, as well as the name of a French existentialist philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter and literary critic, but that’s completel...
How Pedestrian Airbags Work
26 May 2012, 14:00 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / Pedestrian safety is undoubtedly one of the main concerns for all automakers out there, so it’s no wonder that new technologies emerge every once in a while. On January 1, 2009, Euro NCAP, ...
Saab May Be Bought by Swedish Electric Car Firm
25 May 2012, 08:24 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / The Saab story has definitely saddened the automotive world, but it’s not finished yet, and from the looks of it, it’s going to be more of an on-going thing, until everything is sorted o...
Volvo's Potentially Life-Saving Pedestrian Airbag
23 May 2012, 15:55 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Volvo are well known for their interest in safety (it must be a Swedish thing as Saab were safety-mental as well). Volvo will be introducing, along with their new Golf- and Focus- rivaling V40, an u...
Chinese Automaker Brilliance Hire Former Pininfarina Designer
22 May 2012, 12:47 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / With Chinese cars being notoriously unsafe and poorly designed, they never really appealed to Europeans. This may all change with the Chinese automaker Brilliance’s recent hiring of ex-Pininfa...
Volvo to Hand Over XC90 Production to Geely
17 May 2012, 16:33 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / According to recent Chinese media reports, Volvo has handed the XC90 platform over to their Chinese owners, Geely. This is an odd move, as the platform is extremely old, underpinning such cars as th...
Volvo Transporting Guests to Swedish Princess Christening
15 May 2012, 09:21 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Automotive news with a twist today, as Volvo announces their cars will transport about 400 guests that have been invited to attend Sweden’s Princess Estelle's christening in Stockholm...
Volvo Starts Selling V60 Hybrid Exclusively in Europe
7 May 2012, 16:16 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Despite the main market for hybrids being the US, Volvo has decided to sell its new V60 hybrid exclusively in Europe. The plug-in hybrid was unveiled at the Geneva Motor Show, last year. The car ...
Volvo's Mean Green Hybrid Truck Sets Land Speed Record
3 May 2012, 07:53 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / This rather strange-looking truck is Volvo’s ‘Mean Green’ hybrid truck. It was built specifically to showcase Volvo’s hybrid know-how and to prove that it could also help imp...
Volvo V40 Heico Sportiv Tuning Kit Preview
1 May 2012, 12:12 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / The Volvo V40 is as fresh as fresh can be when it comes to a car and now the vehicle has received its first tuning package, with Volvo-focused aftermarket developer Heico Sportiv previewing a modifi...
Jay Leno Tests Volvo C30 Polestar
30 Apr 2012, 17:05 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Jay Leno usually test supercars from Italy, Germany or even America (if you can call those supercars). But for the latest episode of Jay Leno’s Garage, he got his hands on a Swedish performanc...
2012 Volvo V40 UK Price Announced
13 Apr 2012, 12:07 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / With the best design Volvo has been able to muster since the S40 and cool features like airbag for pedestrians, the V40 has plenty of potential of becoming a hit. The new five-door hatch is their fi...
Volvo Reduced Rear Impact Accidents by 28% in 6 Months
3 Apr 2012, 13:41 UTC · By: Alexandru Ungureanu / Drivers that don’t pay attention to the road usually end up rear ending someone. Over the years car manufactures tried to reduce the number of this kind of accidents by fitting their cars with...
Volvo C30 Electric: Climate Control System Explained
27 Mar 2012, 12:26 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / Volvo is making sustained efforts to keep the C30 Electric under the spotlights and the carmaker has recently released a new promo clip for the vehicle, with the video being focused on the car&rsquo...
Mean Green Volvo Hybrid Truck Going for New World Record
26 Mar 2012, 11:43 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / About a month from now, on April 27th, ‘Mean Green’, the world’s fastest hybrid truck, will attempt to reach speeds in excess of 260 km/h (165 mph) on an airfield in Utah, beating ...
World’s Fasters Volvo Amazon Kombi for Sale
21 Mar 2012, 08:43 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / The design of the Volvo Amazon Estate is now 50 year old, but we’re not going to talk about any ordinary piece of Swedish steel. No, this is the famous turbocharged Amazon that drag races Ferr...
Volvo Hires Volkswagen Designed Thomas Ingenlath
9 Mar 2012, 14:08 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Volvo Cars will have a new Vice President of Design in Thomas Ingenlth, a 48-year old who’s made his name and built his career under Volkswagen Group. The new position will be filled as of Jul...
Volvo Invents Pedestrian Airbag for V40
9 Mar 2012, 12:47 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Volvo is so focused on safety that they didn’t stop to protecting the occupants. The Euro NCAP test will have to be rewritten after this car is done with them, because the V40 might be the fir...