Five Vehicles Including Honda Civic Earn IIHS Top Safety Pick+ Award
Mar 7, 2013
Reston Va. March 7, 2013; Five vehicles earn the Institute's top safety award based on their performance in the new small overlap front crash test. The Honda Civic 2-door and 4-door, both small cars, and the Volvo XC60, a midsize luxury SUV, all earned good ratings for small overlap protection. The Lincoln MKZ, a midsi ... Continue reading
Volvo's World First Plug-In Diesel Hybrid Received the Government's Plug-In Car Grant Approval
Mar 7, 2013
The world's first diesel plug-in hybrid, the Volvo V60 D6 AWD, has received approval for the Government's Plug-In Car Grant (PICG) which is designed to offer incentives for buyers to choose new ultra-low carbon cars. In this scheme, buyers will receive a £5000 grant towards the purchase price of the vehicle, meaning i ... Continue reading
Annlyn Motors Wins Volvo Car Australia Dealer of the Year 2012
Mar 5, 2013
Family-owned Annlyn Motors in Penrith, NSW, has been awarded Volvo Car Australia's Dealer of the Year for 2012. ... Continue reading
Volvo Cars Makes Driving at Night Safer and More Comfortable with Innovative, Permanent High Beam
Mar 4, 2013
The new Volvo S60, V60 and XC60 - shown to the public for the first time at the Geneva Motor Show - can be fitted with an innovation that makes driving in the dark safer and more comfortable. The renewed Active High Beam Control makes it possible to use high beam continuously thanks to an ingenious mechanism that preve ... Continue reading
Volvo: Changes in Volvo's Group Management
Mar 3, 2013
Niklas Gustavsson has been appointed Executive Vice President Public & Environmental Affairs and member of the Volvo Group Executive Team. He will assume his duties on April 1, 2013 and will succeed Jan-Eric Sundgren, who was appointed Senior Expert Adviser to the CEO and senior management. Niklas Gustavsson, born 1971 ... Continue reading
Volvo Cars Makes Driving At Night Safer And More Comfortable With Innovative, Permanent High Beam
Feb 27, 2013
The new Volvo S60, V60 and XC60 - shown to the public for the first time at the Geneva Motor Show - can be fitted with an innovation that makes driving in the dark safer and more comfortable. ... Continue reading
Hey Mac What's Up? - New-Model Surge Speeds 2014 Rollout
Feb 26, 2013
from Mac Gordon 02-25-2013 An almost unprecedented mid-model-year product surge is shaping up in 2013, promising to speed up reveals of 2014 models and accelerate leasing ratios to near-record rates. Emerging from the Chicago, Milwaukee and Cleveland auto shows, the industry is pressing dealers to spur early returns of ... Continue reading
Volvo Cars And Geely Cooperate In New R&D Centre In Gothenburg, Sweden
Feb 21, 2013
Geely Holding, majority owner of Volvo Car Corporation (Volvo Cars) and Geely, will establish a Research and Development Centre in Gothenburg, Sweden ... Continue reading
Geely and Volvo Cars Cooperate in New R&D Centre in Gothenburg, Sweden
Feb 20, 2013
Geely Holding, majority owner of Volvo Car Corporation (Volvo Cars) and Geely Auto, will establish a Research and Development Centre in Gothenburg, Sweden. The Centre will develop a new modular architecture and set of components for future C-segment cars, addressing the needs of both Volvo Cars and Geely. The Centre wi ... Continue reading
All-New Volvo V40 - World-First Pedestrian Airbag Technology
Feb 19, 2013
In China 25 percent of traffic fatalities are pedestrians. In Europe the figure is 14 percent and in the USA 12 percent. Far larger numbers of pedestrians are injured. ... Continue reading
Record-Breaking Safety Rating for All-New Volvo V40
Feb 19, 2013
The All-New Volvo V40 has received the top rating of five stars in the Euro NCAP collision test. The overall result is the best ever recorded by the institute. ... Continue reading
Volvo Group invests in DriveCam
Feb 13, 2013
Volvo Group Venture Capital, a subsidiary to the Volvo Group, today announced that Volvo has made a strategic investment in DriveCam. The two companies have joined forces with the objective of delivering innovative safety-centric solutions to the global commercial vehicle industry. ... Continue reading
Jan 26, 2013
'With DFG as a partner, we can improve our position in the increasingly important Chinese market and become more internationally competitive by virtue of the Chinese volumes.'Â ... Continue reading
A New Look With Added Features For Volvo's Award Winning On Call Smartphone Application
Jan 25, 2013
Volvo's award-winning mobile app, Volvo On Call, has been further enhanced for 2013 with a new design, extra features and added vehicle connectivity. ... Continue reading
Volvo: Invitation to Press and Tele Conference in Stockholm
Jan 23, 2013
Regulatory News: AB Volvo hereby invites the media to a press conference on February 6 2013 in conjunction with the release of the Volvo Group full year report for 2012. The press conference will take place 09:00 at Taƒandstickspalatset in Stockholm. Press conference, 09:00 AM CET The press conference will begin at 09 ... Continue reading
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