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Volvo Cars and the Swedish National Road...

Volvo Car Corporation and the Swedish National Road Administration will work together to avoid or lessen the effects of road accidents. This is the thrust of the declaration of intent that Volvo Cars' President and CEO Fredrik Arp and the Swedish National Road Administration's Director General Ingemar Skogö signed at the start of the traffic Read More...

 

Volvo City Safety cuts insurance premiums

Volvo Cars has attracted considerable attention with its new safety function in which the car brakes automatically - Volvo City Safety. "City Safety is of considerable interest to insurance institutes, and insurance companies on many markets are cutting premiums by up to 30 percent for anyone who insures a Volvo XC60," relates Anders Eugensson, Read More...

 

Stephen Odell appointed President and Chief...

Ford Motor Company today announced the appointment of Stephen Odell as president and chief executive officer of Volvo Car Corporation, replacing Fredrik Arp, who has decided to leave the company. Effective Oct. 1, Odell, 53, will be responsible for Volvo's global operations out of its headquarters in Gothenburg, Sweden, and lead the company's Read More...

 

Safe Volvo cabin environment for allergy sufferers

The interior environment in a Volvo should also be safe for hypersensitive people; an ambition whose result means that three Volvo models, the S80, V70 and XC70, are now recommended by the Swedish Asthma and Allergy Association. An increasing number of customers are also beginning to make demands on the quality of the air in the car's passenger Read More...

 

Climate, Safety and Leadership in focus in Volvo...

Volvo Cars has published its seventh Sustainability Report. The report describes activities and improvements within the sustainability area for year 2007. This year's report is divided into three main areas: environment with focus on climate change, safety with focus on active safety and leadership as a means to improve performance. Volvo Car Read More...

 

Volvo celebrates eighty years in Finland

Volvo Cars' Finnish subsidiary is celebrating its eightieth birthday. The company named OY Volvo Auto AB was first registered on 10 July 1928. And now, in this anniversary year, the Volvo brand has moved up into third place in the new-car registration rankings with a market share of seven per cent in Finland. OY Volvo Auto AB was Volvo's first Read More...

 

Marie won a Volvo C30 of her own design

Volvo Cars Swedish sales company, Volvo Personbilar Sverige, contest "Design your own Volvo C30" attracted a record number of contestants. Nearly 6,000 people submitted entries. The winner was 23-year-old Marie Karlsson, engineer from Vetlanda, Sweden. She will receive a Volvo C30 1.8F in the "dream pattern" Weeds. This spring’s Volvo C30 Read More...

 

Volvo Cars Register Three "Ideal" Category Wins

The automotive research and consulting firm AutoPacific announced yesterday its annual Ideal Vehicle Awards (IVA), of which three category winners were Volvos. An "ideal" is defined as an excellent or perfect example. So, in search of the ideal vehicle, AutoPacific asked owners to rate their model year 2008 cars and trucks using a measurement Read More...

 

Volvo Car Corporation reduces workforce by 2,000...

As part of an extensive cost reduction programme, Volvo is planning to reduce its workforce by 1,400 white collar (consultants included) and 600 blue collar members of its workforce. The company is today handing in a notice of these actions to the Swedish authorities (the Swedish Public Employment Service). The notice includes 1,200 employees Read More...

 

New Volvo in Sponsorship Portal Launched

Volvo Event Management launches its new global portal, www.volvoinsponsorship.com and brings Sponsorship - to Life. Dedicated to providing the most comprehensive coverage of Volvo's global, regional, national and local sponsorship portfolio, in sports, in the environment and in culture, www.volvoinsponsorship.com delivers news, views, Read More...

 

Volvo Car India introduces the 'Road Traffic...

Available on demand at an additional cost of Rs. 1.5 Lakh Volvo Car India (VCI), manufacturers of luxury cars, today introduced the Road Traffic Information (RTI) system. The navigation system facilitates travel to predetermined destinations and through unfamiliar traffic environments, ensuring a hassle free travel experience. Available at Read More...

 

Volvo Cars' website ranked 4th of 225

There has been positive development on Volvo Cars' website, directed towards customers. The independent web research company Bytelevel has placed Volvo Car Corporation's website in an honourable fourth place. This is a higher ranking than companies such as Microsoft, Nokia, HP and others. In the most recent survey, Bytelevel has tested 225 global Read More...

 

Volvo C30 Wins Ward's AutoWorld Interior Design...

Ward's AutoWorld magazine once again acknowledged Volvo for superior car interior design. The Volvo C30 earned Ward's Interior Design Award for Best Brand Reflection. Last year, Ward's named the Volvo S80 winner of the Best Interior Design of the Year Award. According to Eric Mayne, Ward's Editor of News Operations, "Marked by simplicity, Read More...

 

Volvo Car India inaugurates its dealership in...

-Spread over an area of 3,500 square feet- Volvo Cars, arguably the world’s safest luxury car brand today inaugurated its Mumbai dealership. The dealership, Shreenath Motors Pvt. Ltd. at Plot No.626 Windsor Building, Behind Laxmi Industrial Estate, Andheri (West), Mumbai; was inaugurated by Mr. Paul de Voijs, Managing Director, Volvo Car India Read More...

 

The Volvo XC90 - SUV of the Year in Russia for...

Volvo Cars received several prestigious awards in Russia in 2007 and to date in 2008. The most recent is for the Volvo XC90, which was crowned best crossover - "2008 SUV of the Year". "There was immensely tough competition and we are very proud over this prestigious award," says Volvo Car Russia's PR director, Alexei Kozhukhov, who received the Read More...

 

200 hp Flexifuel Volvo V70 and S80 -...

The Volvo V70 and S80 are now also available with a five-cylinder, 2.5-litre turbocharged Flexifuel engine with a power output of 200 hp (147 kW) and 300 Nm of torque. "The 2.5-litre version adds spice to our environmental offer. It emphasises our aim to offer our buyers the possibility of combining performance with environmental responsibility. Read More...

 

Smooth Powershift gearbox cuts fuel consumption...

Smooth Powershift gearbox cuts fuel consumption by 8 percent in the Volvo C30, S40 and V50 The two-litre turbodiesel version of the Volvo C30, S40 and V50 is now also available with a fully-automatic transmission. This new Powershift transmission is a six-speed unit and it significantly cuts fuel consumption compared with a conventional Read More...

 

Sustainability 'Simply Eco-logical' to Young...

15 national teams of young environmentalists from all over the world will congregate in Gothenburg, Sweden next week for the seventh Volvo Adventure World Final with US$20,000 of prize money on the line for environmental excellence. From hundreds of projects in more than 50 countries around the world submitted on-line by the 31st January 2008 Read More...

 

The new Volvo V70 R-DESIGN - loaded with refined...

The best-selling Volvo V70 becomes the fifth Volvo model to be offered with the sporty factory-fitted R-Design option pack. This further cements Volvo Cars' aim to offer unique products to particularly discerning customers. The Volvo V70 estate car is for many people the very essence of Volvo: practical, safe and exuding Scandinavian elegance. Read More...

 

Milestone customers pack for a dream trip

Here are the happy owners of Volvo number 15,000,000. Aimee and Paul Kay bought a piece of Volvo history when their C70 was delivered in San Diego - and to top it all off the couple get to travel to Göteborg in Sweden and visit Volvo's Torslanda factory. The 15th million Volvo was transported more than 8000 kilometres from the Volvo factory in Read More...

 

Volvo Car India announces 'Volvo Car Assistance'...

Volvo Car India (VCI) today announced a tie-up with an international automotive service provider- Mondial Assistance, to introduce professionally-manned roadside assistance service for its customers in India. This unique programme will provides its customers a stress-free vehicle ownership and motoring experience. Commenting on this programme, Read More...

 

Volvo fashion in Moscow

The world's toughest round-the-world sailing competition and the spring fashion show in Moscow go hand in hand. The XC90 Volvo Ocean Race Edition was an integral part of Russian fashion designer Valentine Yudashkin's show. Moscow's spring fashion show was held at the end of March. Volvo has been an established partner for a number of years Read More...

 

Volvo XC70 thrills the Russians - again

The Volvo XC70 has been voted Car of the Year in Russia - again. For the second time in three years, Volvo Car's image-booster has taken first prize in the "Estate Car with Off-Road Capability" category. The Car of the Year award in the world's largest country is a true people's competition. A total of 104,722 people voted in 19 different Read More...

 

Two Car of the Year awards to Volvo Cars Thailand

At the Car of the Year ceremony held in conjunction with the Bangkok International Motor Show, Volvo Cars received two awards - in the "Best Advanced Technology" category for exceptional innovations in the field of safety (Volvo S80 3.2) and for "Best Luxury SUV" (Volvo XC90 D5). Both the award-winning cars could be seen on the Volvo stand at Read More...

 

Massage and ventilation elevate the Volvo S80 and...

Volvo's most exclusive cars guarantee discreet Scandinavian luxury designed to appeal to all one's senses. For model year 2009 the aura is reinforced still further through a unique combination of massage and ventilation functions in the front seats along with a range of enhanced materials and trim details. The Volvo S80 and XC90 Executive have Read More...
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