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Volvo Car Corporation Introduces A Mobile Application That Brings The Car Into Your Smart Phone

Volvo Car Corporation Introduces A Mobile Application That Brings The Car Into Your Smart Phone

From now on, there is no need to leave your Volvo behind when you park it. ... Continue reading

UK' s Confused.com Reveals the Unluckiest Make of Car

UK' s Confused.com Reveals the Unluckiest Make of Car

Confused.com has revealed the unluckiest make of car in the UK by looking at 12 months' worth of customers quotes and finding out which make and model had the highest accident rates. Top of the list was Honda's FR-V six-seater. 2,529 owners of this vehicle made 466 accident claims in the past five years. That's a claim ... Continue reading

2011 Volvo XC60 T6 R-Design - RoadTest Review

2011 Volvo XC60 T6 R-Design - RoadTest Review

2011 Volvo XC60 T6 R-Design Volvo's press events are always noteworthy for the amount of seat time involved. Some other manufacturers may have as little as an hour or two of drive time, and four or five is typical, with a couple hundred miles of mostly back roads covered. Volvo's recent "2011 XC Adventure" was anything ... Continue reading

2011 Volvo XC60 T6 R-Design Road Test - VIDEO ENHANCED

2011 Volvo XC60 T6 R-Design Road Test - VIDEO ENHANCED

DRIVING DOWN THE ROAD WITH CAREY RUSS Volvo's press events are always noteworthy for the amount of seat time involved. Some other manufacturers may have as little as an hour or two of drive time, and four or five is typical, with a couple hundred miles of mostly back roads covered. Volvo's recent "2011 XC Adventure" wa ... Continue reading

Economy With A Sports Inspired Look Is The Key Choice For Company Motorists Says Volvo Fleet Survey

Economy With A Sports Inspired Look Is The Key Choice For Company Motorists Says Volvo Fleet Survey

Fleet managers who spend more time talking about features such as 18 inch alloys, leather seats and satellite navigation in the same breath as low emissions and Benefit in Kind taxation will encourage more drivers into 'greener' company cars. ... Continue reading

Volvo Trucks First to Market LNG Powered Truck for Long-Haul Operations - VIDEO FEATURE

Volvo Trucks First to Market LNG Powered Truck for Long-Haul Operations - VIDEO FEATURE

Gothenburg, Sweden - If things go as planned, we expect sales to take off in 6-8 European countries within the next two years, with about 400 Volvo FM MethaneDiesel trucks sold a year. Future sales will naturally depend largely on expansion of liquefied gas filling stations for commercial vehicles. Volvo Trucks (STO:VO ... Continue reading

Torotrak Technology Supports Volvo-Led Flywheel Hybrid Project

Torotrak Technology Supports Volvo-Led Flywheel Hybrid Project

Torotrak plc (LSE: TRK), the global innovator in gearless traction drive technology for vehicle CO2 reduction, confirms that its continuously variable transmission (CVT) technology forms part of the Volvo Car Corporation's evaluation of flywheel technology as announced by them on 26 May 2011. ... Continue reading

Compare EPA MPG Estimates With Real World Owner Shared MPG

Compare EPA MPG Estimates With Real World Owner Shared MPG

FYI: Rank cars and trucks by MPG FYI: Find Your Exact Fuel Costs For 1997-2011 Vehicles Fuel Economy.Gov is a U.S. government web site that has created very useful tools and collected useful and surprising MPG data. Below you will find comparisons of the EPA estimated MPG compared to the MPG of drivers like you. In thi ... Continue reading

Volvo Penta's Plant in Vara is Carbon Neutral

Volvo Penta's Plant in Vara is Carbon Neutral

Sweden--Regulatory News: The use of fossil fuel to power operations at the plant has been phased out and that feels really good. During the past few years, we have been focusing very heavily on measures designed to benefit the environment and this has produced results” Volvo (STO:VOLVA)(STO:VOLVB): Since May, Volv ... Continue reading

Volvo Car Corporation Participates In A Project For The Development Of Inductive Charging For Electric Cars

Volvo Car Corporation Participates In A Project For The Development Of Inductive Charging For Electric Cars

Volvo Car Corporation is participating in a project where electric cars can be charged without using a power socket or cable. ... Continue reading

Top Positions And A Design Award For Volvo Car Corporation At Michelin Challenge Bibendum

Top Positions And A Design Award For Volvo Car Corporation At Michelin Challenge Bibendum

Car Corporation's three cars achieved top results in the 11th Michelin Challenge Bibendum in Berlin. ... Continue reading

Volvo: Truck Deliveries in April 2011

Volvo: Truck Deliveries in April 2011

Sweden--Regulatory News: Volvo(STO:VOLVA)(STO:VOLVB): Total deliveries from the Volvo Group’s truck operations in April amounted to 19,366 vehicles. This was an increase of 49% compared with the year-earlier period. See attached file for full report: http://feed.ne.cision.com/wpyfs/00/00/00/00/00/14/F7/1 ... Continue reading

Truck Trucks' Deliveries In April 2011

Truck Trucks' Deliveries In April 2011

Volvo Trucks'global deliveries in April 2011 were 85% higher than in the same month last year. ... Continue reading

Volvo V60 Outbrakes The Competition

Volvo V60 Outbrakes The Competition

The all-new Volvo V60 has beaten considerably more expensive competition in emergency braking tests carried out in Germany. ... Continue reading

Integrity Sales Announces Investor Road Show in Ft. Wayne, Friday May 20th

Integrity Sales Announces Investor Road Show in Ft. Wayne, Friday May 20th

NEW YORK--ProConcept Marketing Group, Inc. (Pink Sheets:PRMK), through its operating subsidiary Integrity Sales & Services, Inc., announces investor road show event on Friday May 20th, at 10510 Maysville Road in Fort Wayne, IN at 7pm EDT. The Company will be launching an extensive promotional campaign to market the new ... Continue reading

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