The Volvo V30 – Volvo’s five door version of the 2013 C30 – has been caught on video in Europe. It’s quite tough to know how to describe the 2013 Volvo V30 we’ve got on video out testing in Europe. And not just because it’s covered in camouflage. We’re pretty sure that what we have […]
Volvo Concept You – the future Volvo
The Volvo Concept You is revealed today at Frankfurt 2011, following on from Volvo’s Concept Universe and pointing at Volvo’s future. We have to confess that we weren’t huge fans of the Volvo Concept Universe at Shanghai this year, but the Frankfurt offering – the Volvo Concept You – is more convincing. The Concept Universe at Shanghai was just […]
Volvo XC90 gets a facelift for 2012 – just
The 2012 facelift for the ageing Volvo XC90 has been revealed comprising small cosmetic tweaks and some new gizmos. The Volvo XC90 has been with us for the best part of a decade without any major changes, thanks mainly to Ford pulling the plug on a new XC90 a few years ago. But the outlook is […]
Volvo S60 R-Design won on Facebook by ‘The Lake District’
Volvo have given away the biggest prize ever on Facebook UK with a new Volvo S60 going to the winner of their ‘Greatest Drive’ Competition. You may remember we reported in June that Volvo had gone slightly bonkers and decided to give away a brand spanking new S60 to whoever submitted the ‘Greatest Drive’ on Facebook; the […]
Volvo PCP Performance Division planned on the back of rising sales
Volvo are planning a performance division – PCP (Performance Concept Prototype) – to sell performance Volvos sorted by Swedish tuners Polestar. You’re not a serious player in the desirable saloon car stakes unless you have a performance division. BMW has the M Division and Mercedes has AMG; even VW has swapped out its Volkswagen Individual in to a division […]
Volvo to give away S60 on Facebook
Volvo UK are running a ‘Greatest Drives’ competition on Facebook with the winner receiving a new Volvo S60. It seems that Volvo UK are very keen to get their Social Web stuff buzzing. Last week we reported that Volvo were giving away tickets for the Goodwood Moving Motor Show, including the chance to drive a […]
Fancy taking a Volvo up the Goodwood hillclimb?
Volvo are offering the chance for you to win a pair of tickets to attend this years Moving Motor Show at Goodwood and drive a Volvo up the Goodwood hillclimb Last year saw the Goodwood Festival of Speed open a day early for a car manufacturers preview day, a day which quickly became dubbed the ‘Moving Motor […]
Volvo P1800 turns 50
The Volvo P1800 hits 50 this year, so we look back at its history – notably as Roger Moore’s car in The Saint – and put together a gallery of photos. For those of us old enough to think in black and white, the Volvo P1800 conjures up long-forgotten images of The Saint and Roger […]
Volvo Flywheel KERS hybrid on the way
Volvo will begin trialing a lightweight Flywheel KERS system later in 2011, which promises to increase performance, reduce consumption and be cost-effective to. Volvo looks like it’s making a big jump ahead in the ongoing battle to make cars more economical, with plans to roll out a Hybrid Flywheel KERS system to boost performance and cut fuel […]
Volvo S80 Executive & V70 R-Design launched
Volvo has launched a new, top of the range Volvo S80 executive and a more aggressive V70 – the Volvo V70 R-Design. The last news we had from Volvo was that the S60 & XC60 R-Design were going to get more get up and go. Sadly, the extra oomph was reserved for the US. Today’s news, […]