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Make room! New electric crossover to slot in between Volvo XC60 and XC90 SUVs in 2024 to rival BMW iX, Audi e-tron - report

Volvo Sees Big Dreams In Microsoft’s Insanely Cool HoloLens Virtual Reality Tech

30 Years Since Volvo’s 240 Turbo ‘Flying Brick’ Reigned In Europe

All Volvos to be fully electric and sold exclusively online by 2030

Volvo and Geely Auto to remain independent but announce stronger collaboration

Volvo Pure Electric Cars To Go Leather Free As Part Of Their Animal Welfare Ambitions

Volvo XC40 PHEV, Proton X50 Shares Engine/Transmission Combo!

Volvo To Employ Tesla Production Trick In Upcoming All-Electric SUV

Volvo Car Malaysia Launches New 3S Centre in Ipoh

Volvo kills off petrol and diesel for S90 flagship saloon

In a move that will be seen as a step closer to clean power for Volvo – but is actually more likely a business decision – Volvo has announced that the S90 saloon is hybrid-only from now on. It ...

The Volvo XC40 Is A Bit Too Successful – 12 Months Waiting Period in Japan, 8 Months In Europe

The Volvo XC40 has just been launched in Malaysia. Only available in a single T5 R-Design variant, the locally-assembled compact SUV sells for RM255,888 excluding insurance. Deliveries, however, will only begin in January 2019. Well it turns out that Volvo may ...

Volvo V40 T4 Now Available With R-Design Kit

The Volvo V40 T4 is now available with the R-Design exterior package, which was previously exclusive to the V40 T5 variant. Priced at RM154,648, the V40 T4 with R-Design can be distinguished by its different front end, featuring a different ...

Volvo Records Highest Ever Operating Profits In 2017 – 571k Cars Sold

Volvo Cars have rounded off a stellar 2017, reporting a strong 27.7 percent increase in operating profit, up to a record USD1.7-Billion compared to USD1.3-Billion in 2016, driven by global sales of 571,577 cars. Net revenue for the period increased ...

All-New Volvo XC60 Adds North American Utility of the Year Award To Its Collection

While the all-new 2018 Volvo XC60 will be arriving officially on Malaysian shores tomorrow, the mid-size SUV has just grabbed the 2018 North American Utility of the Year Awards. This is the second time Volvo Cars is winning the award ...

Volvo Video Explains Child Safety As Told By A Child

Volvo Cars Malaysia has released an educational video, presented by the young and talented Farris, which covers the basics of child safety in a car, and the importance of child seats. A bit more than three minutes in length, the video ...

Volvo Bukit Bintang Opens – Swede Luxury In The Golden Triangle

Volvo Car Malaysia through its authorized dealer Sisma Auto has officially opened the first Volvo city centre showroom in Menara Worldwide on Jalan Bukit Bintang. Located in the heart of KL’s premier commercial and leisure district – the Volvo Bukit ...

Volvo Chief Håkan Samuelsson Wins Award From German Magazine

The Golden Steering Wheel is one of those non traditional automotive awards- but one that’s just as coveted by members of the automotive community. It’s presented by the Bild Group, known mostly for their AutoBild magazine. This year, the award ...

Geely, Volvo Set Up Two New JVs; Lynk & Co Becomes A Company

Zhejiang Geely Holding and its wholly-owned subsidiary Volvo Cars have further deepened ties with the formation of two new joint venture companies to share technology and to spread economies of scale focusing on electrified vehicles and to further grow the ...

Volvo Establishes New Dealership In Penang

In an effort to offer better services to its growing customer base in the Northern region, Volvo Car Malaysia has opened a new 3S centre in Juru Auto-City, Penang. Operated by iRoll Auto Sdn Bhd, Volvo Juru, which began operations ...

Geely-Proton Partnership: Volvo Cars To Be Assembled At Tg Malim?

As is to be expected from an announcement of this magnitude, the tying up of Geely as Proton’s foreign strategic partner is lined with more than one intriguing sub-plot. One of the many sub-plots in this instance concerns the potential ...

The Rare and Lovely Volvo 262C Just Turned 40

At the Geneva Motor Show in March 1977, Volvo unveiled perhaps the most unexpected model in its portfolio at that time – a two-door coupé version of the 264 called the 262C. Featuring heavily slanting windscreen pillars and a lower ...

Volvo Buses wins UITP climate and health award

Volvo Buses scooped the prestigious industry award for its successful electromobility implementation in Gothenburg, Sweden Volvo Buses scooped the prestigious industry award for its successful electromobility implementation in Gothenburg, Sweden. Not only does the award recognise the positive environmental benefits ...

New Volvo V40 T5 – Now Safety Is Also Sexy

Volvo equals safety. Volvo equals unbreakable. Those are the attributes often associated with Volvo cars. In fact, Volvo is probably the only brand that never had to pay a single cent for quasi Volvo ads memes made by Volvo fans ...

The Volvo Amazon Has Just Turned 60

Named after the female warriors in Greek mythology, one of Volvo’s most iconic and timeless beauties – the Amazon, has just turned 60. And despite being as old as some of our parents, the Amazon is still a looker, continuing to ...

Volvo kickstarts online sales and subscriptions for XC40 Recharge

Volvo’s XC40 Recharge has gone on sale online where it can be purchased either outright or via two different subscription packages. Though the fully electric XC40 Recharge can be bought for £49,950, Volvo expects 95 per cent of its retail ...

New Volvo Concept Recharge hints at electric XC90 successor

Volvo has revealed a new concept car that showcases its next-generation electric vehicles. The Volvo Concept Recharge gives a hint at what the electric successor to the XC90 SUV will look like, as it will be the first EV from ...

Did Volvo’s EV Announcement Wipe $12 Billion Off Tesla’s Market Value?

Tesla Inc shares listed on Nasdaq lost nearly 15 percent of their value in the space of just one week, closing at US$313.22 per share on Friday, 7 July 2017. The stock’s value had most recently peaked at US$383.45 on ...

Volvo Wants To Reduce Road Fatalities To Zero, But This Is What Annoys Them Most

About ten years ago on July 2008, Volvo Car Corporation announced a rather outlandish ambition for itself – that by 2020 no one should be killed or injured in a new Volvo car. Typical of Sweden’s human-centric and noble culture, ...

Volvo – The Swedish Interloper That Tore Down The Exclusive German Premium Car Club

Cars have been around for a little more than 130 years, initially as something that only the rich could afford. In that timeframe, we have seen the hierarchy of leading premium car marques swapping positions at least three times. Initially, ...

Volvo Buses Electric Mobility Effort Recognised With UITP Climate & Health Award

Volvo Buses has been recognised with a prestigious industry award for its electric mobility effort. The successful implementation of its electric bus system project in Gothenburg, Sweden has been recognised for the positive environmental benefits it has had on ...

Volvo’s 180 km/h Limit Coming To Malaysia – The Problem With Speed

As some of you may know, a couple of months ago Volvo made some waves in the industry and among consumers by stating that they would eventually be capping the top speed of their vehicles to 180 km/h – globally. ...

Volvo And Geely Announce Possible Merger – New Group Could Be As Big As BMW

Geely Automobile (a subsidiary under the Zheijiang Geely Group) and Volvo Cars have announced plans for a merger to accelerate financial and technological synergies between both companies. Geely – having led the Chinese car market over the last three years ...

'180kmh' Is Volvo's Magic Number. But Why Bother?

Like it or not, your new Volvo will soon have a speed cap installed. In fact, it applies to all cars made by the Swedish automaker from now on, across all their global markets. You may have heard about this. ...

iCarData: The Best Time To Buy/Sell A 2014 Volvo XC60 T5 Drive-E

We analyse the depreciation and value retention of the popular Volvo XC60 SUV. Volvo closed on a stellar year in 2019 – when for the first time in the history of the company, they delivered over 700,000 cars, driven by ...

Top 10 Reasons Why You Shouldn't Buy The Volvo XC40

The Volvo XC40 T5 AWD R-Design is the one and only variant of the XC40 in Malaysia, it was launched locally towards the fourth quarter of 2018. Should you consider it still almost two years down the line? Here are ...

Volvo Show Off Their Vision For The Autonomous Driving Interface Of Tomorrow

Volvo has released new information and even a video on its IntelliSafe Auto Pilot. They say it is among the industry’s most advanced and easy-to-use interfaces, seamlessly switching from driver control to autonomous driving and vice versa. Always one to ...

Volvo S60 T6 Drive-E Launched In Malaysia at RM280,888

Roughly a year after the introduction of the facelifted Volvo S60, Volvo Car Malaysia has introduced a new variant that will join the ranks as the flagship of the S60 range, the S60 T6 Drive-E. The focal point of the new ...

Volvo XC90 T8 CKD Announced – Unchanged Specs, RM50k Reduction

The second-generation Volvo XC90 created quite a storm in Malaysia when it was launched locally last year. Globally, it was one of Volvo’s most important models – replacing one of its all-time best-sellers and also playing the role of being the ...

Volvo Wants You To Live Fully, Now

It can be a little difficult to associate emotion with a car brand. Some brands have had consistent marketing strategies that help to invoke emotion; some examples would be BMW with Sheer Driving Pleasure or Audi with Vorsprung Durch Technik, ...

Volvo and Northvolt to Build Gigafactory in Sweden

Polestar and Volvo models will receive batteries from factory powered by fossil-fuel-free energy starting in 2025. Volvo Volvo and battery specialist Northvolt will build a gigafactory in Gothenburg, Sweden, to supply batteries for Polestar and Volvo models. The gigafactory is ...

Video: If Tesla Has A Boat Mode, The Volvo XC40 Recharge Has A Submarine Mode

Did you know the Volvo XC40 Recharge has a Submarine Mode? Another day, another Volvo stunt showing how their cars are one of the best and safest vehicles on the market. Remember that Tesla Model 3 story we wrote about ...

Many parents may be using the wrong child car seats, finds Volvo survey

New research has found that many UK parents are using an inappropriate child car seat. Conducted by Volvo UK, the survey of 2,030 adults found that 94 per cent used a front-facing car seat when their child was aged four ...

Volvo drops cars from 30 metres to help rescue services hone life-saving skills

Volvo has dropped several of its new cars from 30 metres to help emergency services to better prepare their skills for extreme crash scenarios. The test was able to simulate the damage incurred during the worst crashes, such as single-car ...

Volvo’s New Infotainment System Makes The Car One Big Android Phone

Volvo’s partnership with Google continues to produce some pretty intriguing advancements in infotainment space as the new 2022 model year versions of the XC60, S90, and V90 models are the newest cars in the Swedish automaker’s stable to be fitted ...

Volvo: We’re seeing a massive switch from diesel to plug-in hybrid

Motorists have made a “massive switch” from diesel cars to plug-in hybrid cars in 2020, according to Volvo’s sales boss. The Swedish manufacturer, which is currently the only car brand offering a plug-in hybrid derivative across its full range, ...

2021 XC40 Recharge T5 R-Design - Full-range of Volvo PHEV CKD’s Now Complete!

Volvo adds another plug-in-hybrid into its local range with the introduction of the XC40 Recharge T5 R-Design. This makes Volvo the first automaker to offer the full range of its vehicle line-up in both CKD and PHEV form. Built on ...

Volvo Is Greening It's Home City; Wraps A Stellar 'H2' 2020

Volvo has teamed up with its home city, Gothenburg, for the creation of new urban zones that will be used as testbeds for future sustainable technologies. Called the Gothenburg Green Zone, the plan aims to establish an area inside Scandinavia’s ...

Volvo Once Again Does Something For The Greater Cause - Drops New Car 30 Metres From The Air

Volvo goes to extreme measures to help rescuers understand heavily crashed cars and how to work around them. Everyone knows Volvo is pedantic about the safety features of their cars but no one would have ever guessed that Volvo would go ...

Volvo XC40 Recharge Sold Out for 2020 – Will it come to Malaysia?

The Volvo XC40 Recharge, the Swedish carmaker’s first of several fully electric models slated to arrive by 2025, has officially entered production, but… While order books remain open, every car scheduled to be built this calendar year has already been ...

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