Volvo Unveils C30 STCC Car
9 Apr 2010, 14:50 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Swedish manufacturer Volvo and Polestar Racing today pulled the wraps off their entry in the Swedish Touring Car Championship (STCC). The car, dubbed by Polestar driver Robert Dahlgren the fastest o...
Volvo Awards Itself
9 Apr 2010, 12:29 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / Quality is so important in the automotive world that some companies use extreme measures to ensure that certain standards are satisfied. Let’s take Volvo, for example. The company has develope...
Major Carmakers Proceed to HD Radio Adoption
5 Apr 2010, 15:03 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / HD Radio Technology tends to become a must-have technology in most cars nowadays and auto manufacturers around the world are gradually adopting this kind of service. iBiquity today announced that se...
Volvo Hopes to Grow Under Geely Ownership
2 Apr 2010, 09:13 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / Now that the Volvo-Geely deal has been approved, the Swedish manufacturer is free to focus on its future and decide the best ways to continue its growth. Volvo's North American CEO expressed hi...
400 hp, All Wheel Drive Volvo C30 Prototype in the Works
1 Apr 2010, 13:13 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / The ultimate hot hatch is a... Volvo. At least that’s what the guys at Polestar Performance seem to state. The company, who is behind Volvo’s championship-wining Swedish Touring Car t...
Volvo S60 Enters 2010 BTCS Season
1 Apr 2010, 09:57 UTC · By: Alina Dumitrache / Shortly after its premiere at the 2010 Geneva Auto Show in early March, the new Volvo S60 gets ready for its racing debut. The Swedish carmaker revealed today that a racing version of the sedan will...
Volvo V70 DRIVe Gets Five Stars in ADAC EcoTest
31 Mar 2010, 12:25 UTC · By: Alina Dumitrache / Swedish carmaker Volvo has yet another reason to brag about, this time because the V70 DRIVe model. German motorists' organization ADAC, recently gave the Volvo V70 1.6D DRIVe five stars in its...
Ford and Geely Reached Final Volvo Transaction Agreement
28 Mar 2010, 17:59 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / No more American-Swedish-Chinese automotive nail biting or rephrased press releases: Ford announced that it has reached a final agreement to sell Volvo and all the related assets to Geely. The sa...
Volvo Expanding Its UK Dealer Network
25 Mar 2010, 15:48 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / As Volvo is waiting to be officially transferred under Geely’s arm, the company is gearing up for the new market opportunities that will come in the future. For example, the carmaker’s U...
Volvo Ocean Race Reveals South American Stop
24 Mar 2010, 09:23 UTC · By: Alina Dumitrache / Just as promised, names of the upcoming Volvo Ocean Race host ports from around the world keep pouring in, placing Brazil for the sixth time on the event’s map. The city of Itajaí, ...
Sanya, Single Asian Stop for Volvo Ocean Race
18 Mar 2010, 11:06 UTC · By: Alina Dumitrache / After announcing all European stopovers for the upcoming Volvo Ocean Race and Abu Dhabi as the first Middle East host port, Volvo today revealed the port of Sanya as the only stopover in Asia. Sa...
Volvo Trucks Releases New Volvo FM
15 Mar 2010, 11:35 UTC · By: Alina Dumitrache / A new version of the Volvo FM truck had just been released by the Swedish manufacturer today. Exterior enhancements include new grill, headlights and air-intake, all inspired by the Volvo FH. Volvo ...
Abu Dhabi, First Middle East Stop for Volvo Ocean Race
15 Mar 2010, 08:42 UTC · By: Alina Dumitrache / As promised, Volvo continued announcing the next host ports to join the upcoming Volvo Ocean Race, after recently revealing all the European stops to be made in the 2010 - 2012 season. The first por...
Volvo Celebrates PV36 75 Years at TechnoClassica
12 Mar 2010, 09:19 UTC · By: Alex Vasile / Volvo Cars has announced that it will be present at this year’s TechnoClassica Show in Essen, Europe’s biggest show for classic cars and automobilia. Volvo’s theme will be called &...
Geely Receives $2.1Bn Financing for Volvo Acquisition
10 Mar 2010, 11:16 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / Earlier this week, we reported that Geely assured everyone that the Volvo acquisition is going according to plan, although an official agreement had not been signed yet. Now, the Chinese company ann...
Volvo Acquisition Proceeding According to Plan
8 Mar 2010, 07:45 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / Zhejiang Geely Holdings, the initiator of the Geely-Volvo acquisition, said that the long awaited agreement has not been signed yet but the takeover will proceed according to the company’s pla...
Volvo Expects Sales Increase After Switching to Geely
6 Mar 2010, 10:51 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / Volvo expects to see a sales growth on the Chinese market after the company will be acquired by Geely, as Dow Jones reports. Currently, Volvo’s Swedish Torslanda plant is working at a reduc...
Rock Group Europe to Provide Volvo Soundtrack
4 Mar 2010, 15:11 UTC · By: Alex Vasile / As Volvo is about to release its newest model, the S60, the marketing department needed a soundtrack for all the car’s videos. And apparently, the music of the rock group Europe fits just perf...
Geely Plans to Quintuple its Production by 2015
4 Mar 2010, 13:04 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / Volvo’s buyer, the Chinese carmaker Geely, has set itself an annual domestic production target of 1.5 million units, due to be achieved by 2015, a move that will quintuple the automotive produ...
Volvo's Sale to Geely Won't Be Derailed
4 Mar 2010, 09:05 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / Even if the sale of HUMMER to Sichuan Tengzhong failed to go through, Geely is still in discussion to complete the Volvo acquisition, representatives of the Swedish brand said at the 2010 Geneva Aut...