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...
Volvo to Market Nail Polish in S60 Colors
3 Mar 2010, 10:04 UTC · By: Alina Dumitrache / The new S60 will not wait alone for the visitors of this year’s Geneva Auto Show to come at Volvo’s booth, but it will be accompanied by an exclusive collection of selected accessories, ...
Lisbon, First European Stop for Volvo Ocean Race
1 Mar 2010, 19:45 UTC · By: Alina Dumitrache / After revealing that Cape Town will be the first stop of the upcoming Volvo Ocean Race, Volvo today announced that Lisbon has been chosen as the first of the European ports for the event. The race w...
Sporty and Naughty Volvo S60 Goes to Geneva
1 Mar 2010, 08:17 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / Volvo will bring the new S60 at the Geneva Motor Show this week, but alongside the regular model, the Swedish manufacturer will also display a sporty and so-called "naughty" version of the...
EU Funds Volvo Competence Enhancement
26 Feb 2010, 17:24 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The European Social Fund (ESF) announced today it has approved 18 million kronor ($2.5 million) to be used by Industrikompetens i vast, a competence center specializing in industrial jobs and involv...
Geely Out for Shopping, Buys Zhongyu
26 Feb 2010, 10:54 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / Geely Automobile, the Chinese company that will most likely take control of Volvo, went out for shopping once again, this time purchasing Zhongyu Automotive, a company whose main focus is the produc...
ADAC Awards Volvo Active Safety System
23 Feb 2010, 09:32 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The Allgemeiner Deutscher Automobil-Club (ADAC), one of the largest automotive organization in the world, announced yesterday the winner of its latest series of tests, aimed at finding the best acti...
Volvo DRIVe Challenge Accepted by 65,000 Facebook Teams
19 Feb 2010, 09:10 UTC · By: Alina Dumitrache / The power of the social media has again been demonstrated, as Volvo announced that its "DRIVe Around the World" challenge became the most installed branded application on Facebook in 2009....
Geely Plans To Sell 412,000 Vehicles in 2010
17 Feb 2010, 14:11 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / Chinese automaker Geely Automobile Holdings Ltd announced that it plans to sell 412,000 vehicles in 2010, a goal which is to be achieved through a new product offensive, as SinoCast reports. The ...
Volvo May Become China's Official State Car - Audi Threatened
16 Feb 2010, 08:09 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / After an infinity of rumors, negotiations and versions of the same story, Zhejiang Geely Holding Group has recently signed the contract for purchasing the Volvo brand from Ford Motor Company. Among ...
No US-Bound Electric Volvo C30
16 Feb 2010, 08:14 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / Volvo has already presented the electric C30 at the 2010 North American International Auto Show so the company can now proceed to other important steps for bringing the vehicle on the market. One su...