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Mar
29th

SWEDEN: Volvo Trucks to start selling heavy hybrid trucks

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Volvo Trucks has announced it is now commencing sales of heavy hybrid trucks, under the name Volvo FE Hybrid, to customers in selected European markets.
Mar
29th

Volvo S60 Art Session

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Ten street artists were given an S60 as a blank canvas, and this incredible time-lapse film shows the results.


Mar
28th

Volvo’s electric C30 survives winter test

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Chilly debut for electric Volvo C30 as prototype survives temperatures as low as -20 Celsius.


Mar
28th

Travelin’ man became a Volvo sales star

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Norwegian immigrant Kjell Bergh turned his wanderlust and a knack for adaptation into a business plan for his two Minneapolis-area Borton Volvo dealerships. After buying a marginal Volvo store, he built it into the Swedish automaker's U.S.
Mar
25th

Volvo and Pininfarina to end their Swedish joint venture for the C70:

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Volvo Car Corp. will take full ownership of a Swedish car assembly joint venture that it started eight years ago with Italy's Pininfarina S.p.A.
Mar
25th

Volvo, Pininfarina to end Swedish joint venture for C70

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Volvo will take full ownership of a Swedish carmaking joint venture that it started eight years ago with Italy's Pininfarina.
Mar
17th

SWEDEN: Volvo appoints new chief officer

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Olof Persson, 46, currently President of Volvo Construction Equipment, is to be the new president and chief executive officer of Volvo.
Mar
11th

INDIA: Volvo launches S60 sedan

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The Indian luxury sedan market crossed the 15,000 mark in 2010 and Volvo has now launched its S60 sporty luxury sedan in the segment.
Mar
11th

Geneva 2011: Volvo V60 Diesel Plug-in Hybrid (picture gallery)

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Volvo set the cat among the pigeons at the 2011 Geneva Motor Show. We're obviously referring to the all-new diesel-powered V60 Plug-In Hybrid. Upon going on sale in 2012, consumers will be able to purchase a highly fuel-efficient car with a range of about 50 kilometres in electric mode and extremely-low emission levels. On top of that, it produces a total of 285 horsepower.
Mar
10th

Volvo C30 for £15k

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Volvo cuts price of entry-level model of its stylish C30 range to £14,995.


Mar
8th

Volvo launches ‘Ocean Race’ limited editions

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V60, XC60 and XC70 Ocean Race models celebrate Volvo’s involvement in global sailing event.


Mar
1st

Question of safety commitment rankles Volvo CEO Stefan Jacoby:

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Volvo CEO Stefan Jacoby got a little testy in an interview at the Geneva motor show on March 1 when asked whether Chinese ownership could hurt Volvo's safety image.
Mar
1st

2011 Volvo S60 T6 AWD Review

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An identity crisis is always a difficult ordeal to go through. Defined by Wikipedia as: "the failure to achieve ego identity during adolescence", Volvo is searching for itself. However, we are far beyond the adolescent days of this renowned Swedish brand which was officially founded in 1927.
Feb
25th

CHINA: Volvo Cars getting one, maybe two, new plants

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Zhejiang Geely Holding Group owned Volvo Car Corporation on Friday said it would consider a second car manufacturing plant in Daqing, China, as well as the one planned for Chengdu.
Feb
25th

Volvo adds veteran outsiders to top marketing, randd posts

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Volvo has chosen two outsiders, Richard Monturo and Peter Mertens to fill critical posts as it embarks on an ambitious plan to invest up to $11 billion in new products over the next five years and to more than double global sales to 800,000 units a...
Feb
25th

Volvo to invest up to $11B in five years, plans exports from China

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Volvo plans to invest as much as $11 billion worldwide over the next five years to tap rising demand in markets including China.
Feb
24th

CHINA: Volvo to build plant in Chengdu

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Sweden's Volvo Cars confirmed it will build a new car plant in Chengdu, in China's Sichuan province, which is expected to become operational in 2013 with the capacity to make 100,000 cars per year
Feb
23rd

SWEDEN: Volvo makes two senior appointments

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Volvo has appointed a new head of research & development as well as a new head of global marketing.
Feb
23rd

Volvo chooses Chengdu as first China plant, source says

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Volvo's supervisory board has signed off on new factory in Chengdu during a meeting Tuesday, a source said. The carmaker plans to hold a ground-breaking ceremony on March.1, signaling the beginning of construction for its first Chinese factory.
Feb
22nd

Volvo previews diesel-powered V60 Plug-in Hybrid

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Volvo announced that the all-new V60 Plug-in Hybrid, the first car in the world to combine diesel with plug-in hybrid technology, will offer three driver-selectable modes at the touch of a button.
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