The latest Volvo stories

Hans Nyth was recently appointed manager of the Volvo Cars Safety Centre and is proud of Volvo Cars' work with safety.

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 corporate websites.

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.

Volvo Cars unveils a unique system that can help the car driver avoid the sort of low-speed collisions that are so common in urban traffic and in slow-moving traffic queues. If the driver is about to drive into the vehicle in front and does not react in time, the car brakes itself.
The system is called City Safety and Volvo Cars' ambition with it is to help avoid half of all rear-end collisions.

DEARBORN, Mich., Nov. 30 – Ford Motor Company announced today that Hans-Olov Olsson will retire from the company effective Jan. 1, 2007.  Simultaneously, the Board of Directors of Volvo Cars elected Lewis Booth Chairman of the Board succeeding Mr. Olsson.  Mr.  Booth, 58, continues in his role as Executive Vice President, Ford of Europe and Premier Automotive Group.

Also the six-cylinder models of the new Volvo S80 can from now on be equipped with Volvo’s intelligent All Wheel Drive system.
Electronically controlled hydraulics and automatic distribution of engine power between the front and rear wheels mean the car’s performance capability can be exploited effectively whatever the road conditions.
The result is increased driving pleasure and enhanced stability.

Volvo Cars Sweden has set its sights on winning the Swedish Touring Car Championship (STCC) in 2007. With bioethanol (E85) in the tank!

Cologne. Volvo Car Corporation was successful among the 2006 Auto Trophy winners. The Volvo XC90 captured its fifth trophy in the import ranking for SUV's and off-road vehicles and the Volvo C30, participating in the competition for the first time, won the import ranking for compact cars this year. Over 350 vehicles in 27 categories vied for the votes of Auto Zeitung readers in the magazine's 19th annual Auto Trophy competition. Steven Armstrong, Chief Operating Officer of Volvo Car Corporation, received the coveted trophies at Meilenwerk in Berlin on 21st November.

The Volvo SUV was among 13 vehicles earning TOP SAFETY PICK awards for 2007 announced by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS). This award recognizes vehicles that do the best job of protecting people in front, side, and rear crashes based on ratings in IIHS tests.

Swiss-born Oliver Keller is one of the leading stuntmen in Hollywood today.
And now he has the biggest Volvo airbag in the world to help him land safely at the end of his stunts.

Agenda Magazine, the in-house magazine at Volvo Car Corporation, did it again – won the Swedish Publishing Award for the third year running.

The Volvo C30 has garnered one of the automotive industry’s most prestigious awards − the German Das Goldene Lenkrad. This is the third time that Volvo Car Corporation has won this award.

Volvo Cars is launching FlexiFuel models powered by renewable bioethanol on several European markets this autumn. The green model range is also being extended and even Volvo’s new C30 will be offered with eco-optimised FlexiFuel power.

Volvo Car Corporation and AB Volvo (Trucks and Buses), are now setting up a joint Traffic Accident Research Centre in China. With its active traffic accident research, Volvo is continuing to acquire information and expertise in the drive to develop safer vehicles, while at the same time hoping to contribute to safer road traffic in the world’s most populous country.

Custom-built 600 horsepower Volvo Amazon thunders into the show

October 31, 2006 (Las Vegas, Nevada) – Classic American muscle cars are a rarity at the annual Specialty Equipment Market Association (SEMA) tradeshow in Las Vegas. But a classic Swedish hot rod at the show is about as rare as ordering pickled herring "your way" at the local Burger King. But this year will be different. Sitting proudly among the three exciting highly customized Volvo C30s, this 1967 Volvo Amazon (P120) should attract plenty of admiring stares from the show's 100,000-plus attendees.

Leif Tufvesson is one of Sweden’s most skilled specialist car constructors, with many of his cars having received serious international acclaim.
The hottest of them all right now is the new Caresto V8 Speedster, a mid-engined car with an ethanol powered Volvo V8 unit. With the advent of the V8 Speedster, the term Sport Rod has been born. The car will be given its premiere public outing at the SEMA show in Las Vegas on October 31.

October 31, 2006 (Las Vegas, NV) – Paydirt. That's what Volvo Car Corporation has hit with the highly anticipated new three-door C30. Just a few weeks after the car's global unveiling at the 2006 Paris Motor Show, Volvo Cars, in conjunction with three aftermarket tuning companies, unleashed the ultimate expressions of free will today at the annual Specialty Equipment Market Association (SEMA) tradeshow in Las Vegas, Nevada.

CUTTING-EDGE DESIGN MEETS RADICAL MOTORSPORTS TECHNOLOGY

A milestone, 500,000 Volvo S60 produced, was reached on Wednesday 25 October in the Ghent plant.
The historic S60 came off the line at approximately 3:30 p.m, driven by Mario Van Der Pulst. The car has willow green metallic coating and has been ordered by an American customer.

Accredited journalists are invited to attend the Volvo Environment Prize ceremony in Stockholm, October 26. The Forum and Award ceremony will be held at Stockholm Concert Hall, Grünewald Hall.

The new Volvo S80 has won the “Autorevue Award”, the most important car award in Austria.
Based on the readers’ choice of the car magazine “Autorevue”, the best selling car magazine in Austria, the new Volvo S80 was number one in the sedan category.

Collecting a new car directly from Swedish carmaker Volvo is a way of buying a Volvo that has proved popular among customers such as diplomats and tourists. And this year, Volvo Cars sales company VCIC celebrates 50 years of successful business in the area.

Three laureates are awarded the Volvo Environment Prize 2006 for their work in understanding the human impact on the world’s fisheries and global ocean environment.

The Volvo Car Corporation has built a mini-Volvo that takes care of very special transport requirements during the European Athletics Championships in Gothenburg. The car, which is a 1:5 scale model of a Volvo XC90, was developed to be able to, quickly and smoothly, transport javelins, hammers or discuses from the place where they land, back to the thrower again.

Here are the first photos of one of the year’s most talked about debutants – the new Volvo C30.
A sporty design, two doors, four individual seats, and a glass tailgate give the C30 a unique character that will attract new Volvo buyers.
The new Volvo C30 will be unveiled for the public at the Paris Motor Show in September, and production will begin at the end of 2006.

Volvo's dilemma of not being able to offer a completely new model during the first half of the 1960s was effectively eliminated in the middle of August 1966 when the new Volvo 144 was first shown. The car was nothing less than a small sensation. It had a new design language featuring clean angular lines, signed Jan Wilsgaard and contained a lot of new safety technology. A future million seller had just seen the light of the day.

In response to customer demand, Volvo Car Corporation is expanding the XC90 range with a new variant – the Volvo XC90 Sport. With a dynamic chassis setting and a unique appearance and specifications, the Volvo XC90 Sport will offer drivers more enjoyable handling and desirability.

On a nice summer Friday in 1956, Volvo showed a completely new car – the Amason. Yes, it was called exactly that, with an "s". But hardly had there been even time to pronounce that name until a controversy about the name started. The car, however, was to become the great seller for Volvo for more than ten years time.