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New S60 to join the DRIVe to lower emissions

  Volvo’s latest S60 model is to join the DRIVe range after the new model goes on sale this summer. Displayed at the Geneva Motor Show this week, the new incarnation of the carmaker’s sporty coupe model will feature a low emission variant set to wear environmental sub-brand badge for the first time. The new [...]

Volvo DRIVe game becomes Facebook favourite

Volvo’s ‘DRIVe Around the World’ game has been named the most installed branded application and seventeenth most installed application on Facebook in 2009 after more than 63,000 teams took part in the virtual challenge.   The ‘DRIVe Around The World’ game challenged users to virtually drive a Volvo C30 DRIVe to a Facebook friend who lives [...]

Volvo slash V70 and S80 emissions

Volvo has slashed the emissions of the V70 and S80 models, with diesel variants hitting the sub-120g/km of CO2 category for the first time. Some of the carmaker’s larger vehicles, the estate V70 and saloon S80 are fairly unique among their class in achieving such low C02 emissions at just 119g/km. The achievement means that the Swedish [...]

Volvo sale expected in early 2010

Anyone who feared that Volvo may go the way of fellow Swedish brand Saab will be relieved to hear that the Ford Motor Company is confident a sale will be complete during the first quarter of 2010. Ford has confirmed that all substantive commercial terms relating to the sale have been settled with Zheijang Geely Holding [...]

Volvo to present electric C30

Not content with being a double award winner in our green car awards (see article), Volvo has set its sights on continuing its momentum. The green car manufacturer of the year will present a battery electric version of the C30 at the upcoming North American International Auto Show in Detroit. It will then build a test [...]

Double-win for Volvo in green car honours

Winners of our recent ‘Green Car of the Year’ 2009 award, Volvo has also been voted ‘Green Car Manufacturer of the Year’ too. Volvo took a staggering 74 per cent of the vote, beating rivals such as Ford, Toyota and Volkswagen to name a few. Volvo was recently handed TheGreenCarWebsite.co.uk’s ‘Green Car of the Year’ award for [...]

Volvo pressures London Mayor to publish congestion charge review

Volvo is calling on London Mayor, Boris Johnson to uphold a promise to publish a review of what the carmaker labels ‘unfair’ congestion charge exemptions. After a campaign lead by the Swedish carmaker, the Mayor agreed to review the exemptions with a view to amending a discrepancy in the way alternative fuel and conventionally fuelled cars [...]

Volvo to trial methane-diesel in trucks

In an effort to reduce fuel consumption and its environmental impact, Volvo Trucks will begin testing heavy duty diesel trucks fuelled by a combination of methane gas and diesel in 2010. The testing will take place in the UK and Sweden and will start with a mixture of up to 70 per cent methane gas. The [...]

Volvo challenges you to a virtual DRIVe around the world

Volvo Cars is launching an innovative online contest challenging people to virtually drive a Volvo C30 DRIVe around the world in 80 days, using only their Facebook friends. Volvo Cars will donate €15,000 in the winning team’s name to a carbon offset project promoted by “myclimate”. The purpose of the contest is to drive the economical, [...]

Marlow to Milan on one tank: the Volvo DRIVe story

How does Marlow to Milan in an executive saloon on one tank of fuel sound? Impossible? Well, Volvo dared to challenge otherwise when it sent a pack of UK motoring journalists from the small Buckinghamshire village of its UK headquarters across the European continent last week. One of these intrepid road testers sent to try [...]