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  • Volvo Concept You puts a touchscreen at your fingertips

    Volvo Concept You puts a touchscreen at your fingertips

    Smart concept car shown 13 September 2011 9:00 GMT

    Volvo has shown off its latest concept car, the Concept You, at the 2011 Frankfurt Motor Show. Floating seats and 21-inch wheels aside, it’s the tablet-like interface that we’re more interested in.

    "Smartphones and smart pads have...

  • Volvo C30 DRIVe. Car And GPS, Cars, Volvo, Volvo C30, Volvo C30 DRIVe 0

    Volvo C30 DRIVe review

    3.0 REVIEW We watch the pennies in Volvo’s most frugal car 18 July 2011 21:58 GMT

    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...

  • Volvo S60 R-Design (2011) D3 hands-on

    Volvo S60 R-Design (2011) hands-on

    HANDS-ON Rolling in Volvo's sporty saloon 20 January 2011 18:16 GMT

    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,...

  • Volvo V60 R-Design (2011) hands-on

    Volvo V60 R-Design (2011) hands-on

    HANDS-ON Safety fused with sporty looks 20 January 2011 15:03 GMT

    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...

  • Volvo S60. Car And GPS, Cars, Volvo, Volvo S60 0

    Volvo S60 review

    3.5 REVIEW The safest car on the road? 11 August 2010 17:52 GMT

    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...

  • PHOTOS: Volvo S60 (2010) hands-on

    PHOTOS: Volvo S60 (2010) hands-on

    Tech on wheels thanks to Drivers Support Pack 31 July 2010 8:10 GMT

    It's not even in dealerships yet, however that didn't stop Pocket-lint flying up to the Scottish Highlands to test out the new Volvo S60 to grab a plethora of hands-on shots of the new car that has to be the safest car on the road, full stop.

    Pictured...

  • A day in the life of a crash test dummy at the Volvo Car Safety Centre

    A day in the life of a crash test dummy at the Volvo Car Safety Centre

    What's involved in testing Volvo cars for safety 7 May 2010 18:15 GMT

    We take road safety for granted most of the time, expecting the cars we drive to protect us on the way to work, a visit to our parents or merely to a quick trip to the supermarket, but before the car even gets on the road it has pass a number of stringent...

  • VIDEO: Volvo S60 promises to stop you running people over

    VIDEO: Volvo S60 promises to stop you running people over

    New Pedestrian Detection safety automatically brakes for you 12 February 2010 22:25 GMT

    Volvo is to announce a new car at the Geneva Motor Show at the beginning of March that will automatically detect someone running in front of it and hit the brakes so you don't hit them.

    Volvo is calling the new tech, which will be introduced...

  • Volvo to make plug-in electric cars

    Volvo to make plug-in electric cars

    Due in 2012 25 September 2009 13:49 GMT

    Volvo is the latest car manufacturer to announce it is to make an electric car. The Swedish car co says from 2012, customers will be able to buy Volvo plug-in electrical hybrids.

    These hybrids will be cars that can be recharged through a...

  • XC60 set for UK debut at MPH show. Car And GPS, Cars, Volvo 0

    XC60 set for UK debut at MPH show

    Muscular Volvo concept on the way 29 October 2007 20:42 GMT

    The Volvo XC60 concept, a crossover SUV, will make its UK debut at the MPH motor shows in London and Birmingham in November.

    Expected in UK showrooms early in 2009, the XC60 was first unveiled at the Detroit show in January. New design...

  • Volvo refreshes S40 and V50. Car And GPS, Cars, Volvo 0

    Volvo refreshes S40 and V50

    Did someone order superficial with a side of so what? 10 April 2007 14:49 GMT

    Volvo’s two best-selling models last year – the S40 saloon and V50 Sportswagon – have been given a retouch. Not that you’d notice.

    The S40 gets a redesigned nose with chrome-framed grille, clear-lensed headlamp units, full-width air intake,...

  • Volvo pimps the XC70. Car And GPS, Cars, Volvo 0

    Volvo pimps the XC70

    All-wheel drive estate gets a facelift 5 March 2007 22:53 GMT

    Volvo has given its rather sedate XC70 AWD (all-wheel drive) estate a shot in the tracking rod with some bold new styling and a shed load more equipment.

    Available with a 3.2-litre straight six-cylinder petrol engine (245bhp) and its second...

  • Volvo V70 details released. Car And GPS, Cars, Volvo 0

    Volvo V70 details released

    E-Volvo-lution 5 February 2007 11:25 GMT

    Volvo has released the first details of its new V70 – and it looks like the Swedish marque’s slow progression from boxy middle-class childwagon to almost cool load lugger is coming along nicely.

    Due in September, the new V70 has sleeker and...

  • Volvo announces XC60 concept car. Car And GPS, Cars, Concepts, Volvo, 4x4 0

    Volvo announces XC60 concept car

    Brand E-Volvo-lution 18 December 2006 11:25 GMT

    The latest concept from Volvo has been unveiled - and continuing the current trend for genre mash-ups, it looks like a 4x4 coupe could be coming our way.

    The design, which we are assured will form the basis of the new XC60, will be shown...

  • Volvo to revolutionise hybrid and electric car making. Car And GPS, Cars, Eco, Volvo, Hydrogen 0

    Volvo to revolutionise hybrid and electric car making

    Exemplary Conduct(er) 5 December 2006 9:00 GMT

    Volvo has invested £150,000 in a company that says it has developed am energy-efficient conductor that could revolutionise hybrid and electric car making.

    The conductor is used, among other things, when battery direct current is converted...

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