Volvo S60 Pedestrian Detection System
10 Feb 2010, 10:54 UTC · By: Alex Vasile / It is a fact that cars can do more and more by themselves every day. The way things are going, pretty soon we won’t need a driver’s license, we’ll just ask nicely our car to drive ...
Volvo to Miss February 14 Sale to Geely
9 Feb 2010, 16:55 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Ford's year-plus long attempt to sale its Swedish unit Volvo may get an extension and miss the February 14 deadline set together with Chinese projected buyer Geely, as negotiations seem to have...
2010 Volvo China Open Money Prize Gets a Boost
9 Feb 2010, 13:05 UTC · By: Alina Dumitrache / This year’s Volvo China Open, scheduled to be held from April 15 to 18 at the Suzhou Jinji Lake International Golf Club, will get a boost in the prize money by adding another US$300,000 to the...
2011 Volvo S60 Official Details and Photos Released
9 Feb 2010, 09:02 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / With the 2010 Geneva Auto Show less than a month away, Swedish carmaker Volvo pulled the wraps off the long awaited Volvo S60, marking the carmaker's entry in the CD Premium car segment. The ca...
Saab and Volvo, Part Deux
8 Feb 2010, 09:43 UTC · By: Emanuelle Vandelay / If you wake up in the morning when the clock alarm goes off, brush your teeth, take a shower, dress with the already prepared clothes you readied last night, run to your car and accelerate to the of...
Volvo Trucks Reports 2009 Operations
5 Feb 2010, 10:19 UTC · By: Alex Vasile / At the end of January, the Swedish trucks manufacturer has seen signs of increased demand, meaning that they were able to reduce stocks and increase production. But in the fourth quarter Volvo had t...
Volvo UK Partnered with Snowbombing 2010
4 Feb 2010, 13:30 UTC · By: Alex Vasile / Volvo had a great year in the UK, so the Swedish car manufacturer is now trying his best to keep things up. In order to attract some attention from the young people, Volvo UK decided to partner with...
Volvo to Get New Badges
3 Feb 2010, 16:16 UTC · By: Alex Vasile / The Volvo brand has been going through some difficult times, as Ford has been trying to sell it for some time now. But despite what everyone thinks, the Swedish car manufacturer had a serious market...
Geely to Take Control of All Volvo Technologies
2 Feb 2010, 10:38 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / Geely will take control of a 100 percent stake in Volvo, despite reports that Ford wanted to keep some technologies developed by the Swedish unit. Citing a Geely top executive, gasgoo.com reported t...
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...