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With four hundred horsepower on tap, you`d think that the two thousand eighteen Volvo XC60 T8 Plug-In Hybrid would be the right choice for carving your way through a winding canyon road. The ingredients are mostly there: a lot of power, a balanced chassis, grippy all-wheel drive, and nicely weighted steering. Read More»

Volvo made a bold announcement Wednesday: within two years, every fresh Volvo will run on batteries. . or rather, that’s what many of the news headlines would lead you to believe. What Volvo actually said was this: “Volvo Cars, the premium car maker, has announced that every Volvo it launches from. Read More»

When are car companies most like computers? Leave behind about the future of self-driving cars, or Wall Street`s drive to turn Detroit into Silicon Valley, and vice versa. Car companies act like Apples when they need a reboot. That`s where Volvo found itself just a few years ago, with an. Read More»

Looking like a scaled-down version of the automaker’s XC90 crossover, the two thousand eighteen Volvo XC60 will arrive in dealers early this fall with a kicking off price that significantly undercuts its dated predecessor when they’re optioned up to the same level. The two thousand eighteen XC60, available in Momentum, R-Design, and. Read More»

Don’t bother calling shotgun if you’re about to rail in the two thousand eighteen Volvo S90. The back seat is now the place to be thanks to a wheelbase open up for leg-crossing room plus a fresh standard massaging feature. For 2018, Volvo is exchanging out the American-market S90 with an extended-wheelbase version. Read More»

Ride-sharing giant Uber says it is parking its fleet of self-driving cars after an accident involving one of the experimental vehicles late last week in Tempe, Arizona. The wreck involved a Volvo XC90–part of a fleet of vehicles being tested by Uber–but the company says that albeit. Read More»

If you’re familiar with the Volvo XC90, nothing about the Swedish automaker’s fresh, smaller crossover effort will surprise you. That’s a good thing, however. With its two thousand eighteen XC60, Volvo has scaled down everything about the successful XC90–and it has packed in even more technology. Underneath its. Read More»

Volvo is recalling more than Five,500 cars in the U.S. to fix a problem with their airbags. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration reports that some of the inflatable curtain airbags in those vehicles may have been installed using poorly manufactured bolts, which could dramatically. Read More»

With its two thousand eighteen V90, Volvo is back in the large wagon game–but before you take home your almost $51,000 family-hauler, you’ll have to wait for it be delivered. That’s not chump switch for a wagon; it’s upwards of $15,000 more than the last big wagon Volvo sold here, the two thousand ten V70. But the V90. Read More»

Few brands have been through a turnaround fairly like Volvo. The last bastion of Sweden’s once-thriving car industry, Volvo is in the midst of a heck of a product renaissance. In the last eighteen months, Volvo has launched a fresh flagship SUV–the XC90–and a fresh flagship sedan–the. Read More»

In August, Uber astonished most of the auto world by launching a fleet of fully autonomous vehicles in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Now, the company is bringing some of its self-driving vehicles to San Francisco, California, and while that might please many Bay Area techies, the state’s Department of. Read More»

The Volvo V60 and Audi Allroad are two examples of good crossover-SUV alternatives. Each maker offers SUVs of about the same footprint–taller, bulkier, and less fuel-efficient–but these are old-school wagons derived from sedans. The V60 is a latest addition to Volvo’s line, however the. Read More»

A duo of years ago, Volvo launched something called “Wander Delivery”. Harnessing the power of the internet, the service permits delivery personnel to bring packages to a Volvo rather than to a home or office. The program’s success has encouraged Volvo to expand the number of services it offers to. Read More»

Volvo has issued recalls for two thousand sixteen and two thousand seventeen models of the S60, S90, V60, XC60 and XC90. According to Auto News, those vehicles may have a problem with their seat belts that could prevent them from restraining occupants decently during collisions. The problem component is the seat belt buckle, which. Read More»

The two thousand seventeen Honda Pilot and the two thousand seventeen Volvo XC90 are both large, seven-seat family utility vehicles, however they’re about as far away from traditional SUVs in refinement and design as you can get. Both were fresh for the two thousand sixteen model year, and the two cars are among our highest-rated crossover SUVs. Which. Read More»

Modern cars come with a ample array of safety systems to keep drivers and passengers safe. These systems are good at spotting obstacles like pedestrians and other vehicles, but some things confuse them–things like car washes, for example. That might sound like an absurd shortcoming, but if you look. Read More»

Three years ago, rumors suggested that Chinese automaker Geely planned to begin selling cars in the U.S. in 2016–not under its Volvo brand, mind you, but under the Geely name. Well, here we are, almost to the end of 2016, and there’s no sign of Americanized Geelys on the streets yet. But yesterday. Read More»

We were ready to write off Volvo just a few years ago. Today? There may not be a car brand with a brighter future, and the company’s luxurious S90 flagship sedan is perhaps the best evidence of that yet. Following in the footsteps of the similar, but identically astounding Volvo XC90, the S90 is a. Read More»

The two thousand seventeen Volvo XC90 and the two thousand seventeen BMW X5 are large luxury utility vehicles for buyers suggesting European cachet with all-wheel-drive hauling capacity. Each was its maker’s first-ever crossover SUV years ago, and both have refinement, treating, and features unimaginable in older SUVs. While the big. Read More»

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