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Cars 4.5 out of 5Volvo V40 review
When the Volvo brand name is uttered what’s the first thing that springs to mind? Safety? Family? Swedes (and we don’t mean the vegetable)? We reckon all of the above, veg excluded. And yet the introduction of the five door V40 certainly adds a...
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Cars 4 out of 5Volvo S60 DRIVe R-Design 1.6 litre turbo diesel review
Why not buy a German car? We'll tell you why not, because you can have a Swedish one instead. Of course there are a lot of German car lovers out there, so it might be a tough sell to get them to make the switch. But that's a shame, because cars like the...
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OnlineVolvo V60 plug-in hybrid pictures and hands-on
The world is increasingly focusing on hybrid technology, and why not? After all it's a pretty good way to help reduce emissions and hopefully save money. However you feel about the tech though, hybrid cars often divide opinion. The Prius is certainly...
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Cars 3 out of 5Volvo C30 DRIVe review
The age of austerity. Don’t you hate that phrase? But car companies aren’t stupid, and it’s no coincidence that, as fuel prices and the cost of driving in general has rocketed, brands like Volvo have introduced green sub-brands like “DRIVe”...
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CarsVolvo S60 R-Design (2011) hands-on
The Volvo S60 R-Design offers a new level of trim on Volvo’s popular saloon, bringing a sporty edge to a car loaded with safety tech. Encompassing a number of cosmetic and performance alterations, the S60 R-Design has a more aggressive look, with a...
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CarsVolvo V60 R-Design (2011) hands-on
The Volvo V60 R-Design brings a new sporty level of trim to technical safety wizardry, leading to an edgier more exciting line-up of cars for 2011. We jumped behind the wheel of the new T3 model - with Volvo’s new 1.6 GTDi engine - and took it for a...
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Cars 3.5 out of 5Volvo S60 review
They're boxy, but they're good, goes the quote from Crazy People starring Dudley Moore to describe the Volvos of yesteryear. Trouble is, that was a long time ago and the company has changed somewhat since then. So much so that we struggled to find a...