Volvo celebrates its WTCC Polestar win with the Volvo S60 and V60 Polestar Performance World Champion Editions as an ‘add on’ to an S60 or V60. All the Polestar news may be about Volvo’s performance brand delivering the Polestar 1, and lighting a bit of a bonfire under preconceptions about how effective Polestar will be as […]
Volvo XC40 T5 R-Design costs £520 a month in US with ‘Care by Volvo’
The new Care by Volvo option to get in to a new Volvo with all costs included is £520 a month (plus tax) for the XC40 T5 R-Design in the USA. With the new Volvo XC40 Compact SUV now in production, Volvo is starting to give more details on the ‘Care by Volvo’ offerings, which […]
Volvo’s Lynk & Co 01 SUV sets WORLD record sales in China
The Lynk & Co 01 – Geely’s ‘connected and sharing’ take on the Volvo XC40 – has gone on pre-sale in China, selling out in just over two minutes. It’s just over a year ago that the Lynk & Co 01 SUV was revealed as a ‘Sharing’ compact SUV based on the new Volvo XC40,as […]
Volvo S90 S4 Momentum Review (2017) – Volvo’s entry-level S90 tested
We’ve had the 2017 Volvo S90 in for review and road test, with the entry-level Momentum trim and the base D4 diesel engine with 187bhp. The new 90 Series cars from Volvo – S90, V90, V90 Cross Country and XC90 – heralded the arrival of a new kind of Volvo; a Volvo that wasn’t just […]
Volvo XC40 production starts TODAY in Belgium
Production of the new Volvo XC40 – Volvo’s new smaller SUV – will start today at Volvo’s Plant in Ghent, with deliveries starting early 2018. It’s two months since the production version of the Volvo XC40 arrived, and now its actually going in to production from today (22 November 2017), with the first car rolling […]
More than 20,000 Self-Driving Volvo XC90s heading for UBER
Volvo has done a deal with taxi firm Uber to supply tens of thousands of autonomous driving-compatible XC90 SUVs between 2019 and 2021. As well as developing their own autonomous self-driving cars, Volvo are keen to be in the heart of the mobility shift self-driving technology will bring. So last year Volvo partnered with Uber […]
Are POLESTAR – Volvo’s electric performance brand – going to be the undoing of Tesla?
Will the arrival of Volvo’s POLESTAR Performance Brand leave Tesla behind as the Geely-owned brand delivers high performance electric cars? The arrival of the Polestar 1 as a production take on Volvo’s Concept Coupe is the first salvo from Geely-owned Volvo and Polestar aimed directly at the heart of Tesla. Despite a pretty steep price […]
Volvo V90 and S90 now with T4 PETROL engine
The Volvo V90 Estate and S90 Saloon can now be ordered with the T4 petrol engine as Volvo look to offer a viable alternative to diesel-engined 90 Series. With car buyers turning against diesel engine – and the Chancellor likely to increase the pressure with new diesel car taxes in next week’s budget – car […]
New Volvo XC60 is the SAFEST car of 2017 in latest Euro NCAP tests
The new Volvo XC60 SUV has ‘Aced’ the latest Euro NCAP tests, scoring a five star rating and 40 per cent above average on Safety Assist. Two years ago the then new Volvo XC90 achieved scores in Euro NCAP testing never seen before. And now its baby brother – the new Volvo XC60 – has done […]
New Volvo XC40 BEATS BMW X1 and Audi Q3 Residual Values
The new Volvo XC40 – Volvo’s first SUV built on the new compact platform – has achieved strong residual value figures from CAP HPI and KeeResources. We all know that strong residual values – what a car is worth as it ages – makes a big difference to how much it really costs you to […]