Volvo V70, S80 Drop Below 120g/km
1 Feb 2010, 08:54 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Swedish carmaker Volvo announced today the availability of new versions of the diesel-powered Volvo V70 or S80, tweaked into releasing under 120g of CO2 every km, while consuming around 4.5l of fuel...
Volvo 2.0l GTDi Engine Ready for Action
28 Jan 2010, 08:53 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Swedish manufacturer Volvo announced today the introduction of a new 2.0l Gasoline Turbocharged Direct Injection (GTDi) engine, to be fitted onto the S80, V70 and XC60. "We've succeede...
Saab and Volvo. Return of the MILFs...
28 Jan 2010, 06:47 UTC · By: Charles Darveight / … Saab engineers, who were already paid with money that don't exist, can now open the champagne bottles. The cheerful gang of 3,400 people, all Swedish and all brave and intelligent, wil...
UK Scrappage to End in February
27 Jan 2010, 09:28 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The UK government decided to share the remaining scrappage scheme budget to carmakers in the UK, based on retail sales in 2009, with Mazda being among those who will get enough funding to "sati...
BAIC Preparing Own Saab Models for 2011
26 Jan 2010, 20:43 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / 2009 was a very important year for Beijing Automotive Industry Holdings Co., Ltd. (BAIC), as the company purchased some of the distressed SAAB’s assets from the Swedish manufacturer’s ow...
Volvo Trucks to Increase Production
26 Jan 2010, 15:48 UTC · By: Alex Vasile / In the last few months, things have been looking better for Volvo Trucks, as the Swedish manufacturer has seen signs of increased demand. This means that they were able to reduce stocks and now it i...
Volvo Sold to Geely by February 8
26 Jan 2010, 09:32 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / Just like its Swedish neighbor Saab, Volvo is currently involved in a complicated selling process that has until now reached several critical milestones. A new one is to be achieved on February 8, i...
Future Electric Volvo Previewed?
25 Jan 2010, 10:21 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / We already know that the entire auto industry is slowly migrating to the electric vehicle market and there's no surprise to see Volvo doing the same thing. Besides several projects prepared by ...
Mercedes to Adopt Auto-Swerve Tech in Five Years
20 Jan 2010, 11:13 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / Today's cars are equipped with all kinds of revolutionary safety equipment that complete changes the way the vehicle per se interacts with the rest of the world, no matter if we're talking...
Geely Inaugurates Vehicle Assembly Line in Russia
18 Jan 2010, 13:13 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / Geely, China’s second largest private carmaker has inaugurated an assembly line in Russia’s Caucasus republic of Karachay-Cherkessia, as xinhuanet.com writes. Last week, the Russian c...
Volvo Names New Chairman of the Board
15 Jan 2010, 13:57 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Just prior to the projected sale of Swedish brand Volvo to a Chinese company Geely, Volvo's chairman of the board, Finn Johnsson, decided to resign and pursue his own interests. He will be repl...
Geely Posts 59% Sales Increase in 2009
15 Jan 2010, 09:30 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / Geely, which currently has the highest chances to take control of Swedish manufacturer Volvo, posted a sales increase of 59 percent in 2009 to 325,413 units. Furthermore, December was the best month...
Volvo Still Up for Grabs Despite Geely Agreement
13 Jan 2010, 10:23 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / Although we all believed that Volvo is 99 percent sold, it appears that Ford is also willing to listen to other offers it might receive from various interested parties around the world. At least, th...
Geely - Volvo Deal Terms Revealed
11 Jan 2010, 11:54 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / Up until now, lots of media sources talked about the Volvo - Geely deal but nobody knew for sure which exactly are the terms of the agreement and what is going to happen to the Swedish unit after th...
Geely to Launch Chinese-Made Volvo
11 Jan 2010, 09:47 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / Although Geely assured everyone that Volvo's operations would remain untouched once the Swedish unit steps under its ownership, the company will actually suffer some slight changes. Mostly beca...
NAIAS Preview: Electric Volvo C30
9 Jan 2010, 12:03 UTC · By: Alex Vasile / Producing all electric cars has become a must for a lot of important automaker, so Volvo got in line and came out with its own all electric C30. At the moment, the Swedish are testing their Battery ...
Volvo Tests Viability of the C30 BEV
7 Jan 2010, 16:23 UTC · By: Alina Dumitrache / Swedish carmaker Volvo is currently evaluating the viability of introducing an entirely electric-powered car known as a BEV (Battery Electric Vehicle) on the market, after already announcing a plug-...
Volvo UK Sales Are Up
7 Jan 2010, 14:13 UTC · By: Alex Vasile / Volvo seems to have had a great year. After finally finding an interested buyer, things are looking quite good for the Swedish car manufacturer. According to the Society of Motor Manufacturers and T...
Sweden to Meet GM, Ford Next Week
6 Jan 2010, 11:28 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / Saab's future is still uncertain but Swedish officials are looking into ways to put things straight so they will travel to Detroit next week to meet GM officials and discuss the matter. Further...
Volvo S60 Previewed on Youtube
4 Jan 2010, 13:26 UTC · By: Alex Vasile / The launch campaign for the new Volvo S60 has taken another step as the first footage of the sedan emerged on the Internet. No, we’re not talking about a mistake or any “leaks” fro...