Volvo V40 Pirelli Edition by Heico Sportiv
15 May 2013, 13:06 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Heico Sportiv has revealed one very sexy looking Volvo as a special edition to celebrate tire-maker Pirelli's 50th anniversary in Germany. The two companies have been working together for 4 yea...
Volvo V40 and V40 Cross Country to Debut in India
9 Apr 2013, 17:19 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Volvo has announced a rival for the BMW X1 and Audi Q3 will soon arrive in India in the form of the V40 Cross Country compact crossover which will debut in June 2013. Since the V40 is a newer mod...
Volvo Announces Car-Enveloping Airbag Technology
1 Apr 2013, 11:48 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / Volvo, the automotive industry leader in terms of vehicle safety, has announced yet another revolutionary feature after launching the Pedestrian Airbag Technology. Called External Vehicle Protect...
Volvo Updates V40 With Cleaner D2, New T2
14 Mar 2013, 14:46 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Volvo has introduced a number of changes for the V40 available in Europe. The car is still brand new to most people, but the Swedes have found ways to make it a bit better and attractive to customer...
Volvo Engineer Attacks Spy Photographer!
25 Jan 2013, 08:39 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / It was bound to happen eventually. Hollywood celebrities usually can't leave the house without being assaulted by a mob of people wanting to snap photos of their every skin blemish or misaligne...
Volvo Cuts Car Production in December
30 Nov 2012, 15:45 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Volvo Car Group (Volvo Cars) has decided to lower its December production volumes in the Torslanda and Ghent plants, without revealing the reason for this. In the Torslanda plant, there will be t...
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 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 Cross Country · Live Photos
28 Sep 2012, 14:10 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Volvo’s V40 hatchback has gained some chunky-looking plastic body cladding, as is the trend nowadays, as well as a raised ride height, to create the V40 Cross Country. With it, the Swedish man...
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. ...
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...
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 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...
Volvo V40 Polestar Coming
16 Jul 2012, 14:02 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Fresh on the heels of the magnificent S60 Polestar, which has a whopping 508 horsepower T6 engine that seems to run on rocket fuel, we bring you more good news from Sweden. This time, it will be a m...
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, ...
Volvo V40 Production Starts
15 May 2012, 10:52 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / With an airbag to protect the person you hit with your car and a slew of other innovative safety features, the V40 five-door hatchback is the most important car Volvo has launched in the last 20 yea...
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...
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...
Geneva 2012: Volvo V40 · Live Photos
7 Mar 2012, 17:59 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / The Volvo V40 four-door hatchback has made its debut at the Geneva Motor Show, with the Swedish automotive producer having important plans for the vehicle. We know that this kind of car is pretty ha...
2012 Volvo V40 Officially Revealed
28 Feb 2012, 09:24 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / By now, just about every corner and facet of the V40 should be known to you from the official photos and videos that have been leaked. We have a sneaking suspicion the slip-up was intentional, but w...