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0Official: Volvo makes the XC60 disappear into art 1371476700
For the last few years, Volvo has set up an art display in the Zurich, Switzerland central train station called the Volvo Art Session, allowing select artists – both established and up-and-coming – to create temporary exhibits with one of Volvo's products acting as the centerpiece. This year, six artists from across Europe converged in Zurich ...
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Report: Volvo, Mitsubishi, Road & Track among brands predicted to disappear from North America next year 1369681260
24/7 Wall St., a financial news and opinion website, has identified 10 big brands that it believes will disappear from the US (and likely Canada) within the next 18 months. The list "reflects how industry trends can accelerate the demise of certain brands," says the publication, noting the "brutally competitive nature of certain industries and the ...
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Video: Watch Polestar talk about the development of its super Volvo S60 1367874000
Polestar is getting ready to deliver its first production car, the Volvo S60 Polestar. Letting the S60 stretch its legs, Polestar Racing driver Robert Dahlgren took the blue sedan from Barcelona, Spain to Jokkmokk, Sweden - stopping for wet-weather testing in Germany along the way. Dahlgren narrates the journey of the "pilot project" that has 350 ...
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Featured: Volvo promises new direct-injected diesels, 8-speed auto 1367092800
As a part of eliminating its dependence on Ford platforms and powertrains, Volvo has previously announced information about its Volvo Engine Architecture (VEA) and Scalable Platform Architecture (SPA), but now we're finally getting some details about what will power some of the Swedish automaker's next-generation products. The biggest key to VEA on the ...
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Official: First production Volvo S60 Polestar shown off 1366314240
With the Volvo S60 Polestar going on sale in Australia this June, Volvo has finally released images and specs for the production version of the performance sedan. While no official build number has been announced, one image of the car's steering wheel shows a serial number plaque that says "No. 000/100" indicating that production will likely be limited to ...
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Report: Volvo S60 Polestar entering limited production in Australia [w/video] 1365620280
The Volvo S60 Polestar Concept may be entering limited production in Australia and, depending how the Aussies take to this Swedish super sports sedan, could then be made available worldwide. The news comes from Austrlia's GoAuto, which claims to have received early info from its sources inside Volvo and its tuning/motorsport arm, Polestar. Polestar ...
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Video: Dangerous driver crashes Volvo after passing motorcycles on shoulder 1365521400
Safe cars don't make safe drivers, as the reckless person seen behind the wheel of this Volvo (pictured above) takes a dangerous stab at passing a pack of motorcycle riders on the shoulder of a highway. The failed attempt to overtake the group of bikers becomes a double dose of driving karma when the speeding Volvo sedan loses control, skids across the ...
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Featured: Automotive April Fools' joke roundup [w/videos] 1364853600
Happy April, everyone. And we all know what this first day of the month means: April Fools' Day. Today is a national holiday for pranksters with the Internet acting as a serious enabler, and it's always fun to see what kind of vivid imaginations exist out there in the automotive world. The abundance of fake news gets a little old as the day rolls on, but ...
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Report: Volvo uncovers widespread cheating by its Chinese dealers 1364767200
According to a report in Reuters, the findings of an internal investigation conducted by Geely-owned Volvo is that its Chinese dealers vastly over-reported their sales numbers in 2011, then even more vastly under reported their 2012 sales figures. About "half the dealers" out of the 151 total outlets gamed the system in order to get incentives for ...
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Featured: Volvos will brake for bicyclists with new detection technology 1364745600
Anyone who pedals a bicycle knows that one of the biggest dangers to riders is a motorized vehicle – Volvo estimates that nearly 50 per cent of all cyclists killed in European traffic have collided with a car. In the United States alone, 618 riders lost their lives in bicycle/motor vehicle crashes in 2010, and the number of injuries surpassed ...