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New Volvo XC40 Compact CUV Debuts Next Week

The all-new Volvo XC40 will be unveiled September 21. To get us excited for what Volvo claims to be the “best-equipped vehicle in its class,” the Swedish automaker has released a short teaser video for...

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Images of New Volvo XC40 Surface Early

Images of the new Volvo XC40 compact crossover have leaked through a video posted by Volvo Hungary.  The video, which has since been taken down, showed the XC40 in full ahead of its debut on September...

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Volvo Doubles South Carolina Investment, Pours In Another $500 Million, Plans...

Volvo continues to look forward to real U.S. sales recovery, meeting the goal of record U.S. sales volume by 2020, and a fourth consecutive year of record global sales. To get there, Volvo is already...

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Volvo Reveals the all-new XC40 Compact Crossover

The all-new Volvo XC40 has made its official debut – marking Volvo’s first foray into the increasingly competitive compact crossover segment. The XC40 rides on the Swedish automaker’s new Compact...

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Volvo’s New Subscription Service Offers Flat Fee Car Ownership

Volvo debuted its new XC40 compact crossover today, but not to be missed is the simultaneous announcement on its new Care by Volvo subscription service. Care by Volvo offers an alternative to the...

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What’s the Volvo XC40 Getting Into? America’s Subcompact Luxury Crossover...

Of the 1.4 million new vehicles sold in the United States of America each month, premium auto brands account for slightly more than one out of every ten new vehicle acquisitions. More than 55 percent...

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Polestar Marks the End of its Time as Volvo Sub-Brand

We’ve known for a while now that Volvo and Polestar are splitting up to better conquer the automotive world, but Polestar made it official today with a poignant post on Instagram. By simply posting...

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It’s Official: South Carolina Will Build the Next-Gen Volvo S60 and the Volvo...

Reports last week that Geely-owned Volvo would double its investment in Berkeley County, South Carolina, were confirmed today by the Swedish automaker. Volvo’s investment rises to $1.1 billion, the...

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VIDEO: 2017 Volvo S60 and V60 Polestar Track Test

Volvo’s Polestar brand could’ve been a household name like BMW’s M or Mercedes’ AMG, if only they kept building cars like this… The post VIDEO: 2017 Volvo S60 and V60 Polestar Track Test appeared first...

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Volvo and Lotus are Now Owned by the Same Chinese Company

Geely now owns a majority stake in Lotus. It has been known for quite some time now that Chinese automaker Geely, which also owns Volvo, would be purchasing a 51-percent majority stake in Lotus. But...

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Polestar Teases First Model with Puzzle

Polestar has been releasing numbered images, each featuring a different detail of its upcoming first model as a standalone brand. Although little is known about the new model, set to debut on October...

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Watch the Koenigsegg Agera RS Smash Bugatti’s 0-250-0 Record

Yesterday Koenigsegg shared a photo on its Facebook page of an Agera RS with the text “0-400-OMG” imposed beneath the car.  We took the cryptic photo as a direct threat to Bugatti’s record for...

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Volvo’s Electric Buses Cruising UK Streets On Demonstration Tour

Volvo, in collaboration with Manchester’s transport authority, is now conducting a public trial and demonstration tour of its Volvo 7900e “Metroshuttle” on Manchester’s streets. The demonstration tour...

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2018 Volvo XC60 Earns IIHS’s Highest Safety Rating, Sun Rises

Yes, that’s right, a Volvo has earned a top rating from a safety rating agency. It’s a shock on par with finding out that Trump has Tweeted something dumb and many French people live in France, but...

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Polestar Releases Another Teaser for its Rumored 600 HP Hybrid

Last week Polestar teased its first-ever vehicle with a tricky little puzzle revealing a portion of the sports coupe’s rear-end.  Now the automaker has released another teaser for the car – but it...

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Polestar 1: Volvo Sub-Brand Reveals Its First Ever Car

For the first time ever Polestar is releasing a car with nothing but its own badge on the hood, and boy is it a looker. Although the name on the car is completely divorced from Volvo, the car itself is...

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Geely Invests $750 Million in Polestar as it Looks to Take on Tesla

Volvo and parent company Geely have announced an investment of $756 million USD in the newly repositioned Polestar electric vehicle brand. The investment will be used to build a dedicated manufacturing...

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Volvo Takes Home SUV of Texas Award with XC60

The Texas Auto Writers Association (TAWA) has revealed what its august membership believes are the best trucks of 2017 and the Volvo XC60 was voted the year’s best SUV. “Volvo is very proud to get this...

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To Date, There Are 13 Volvo V90 Cross Countrys in America for Every Standard...

Through the end of September 2017, Americans have registered 13 times more Volvo V90 CCs than Volvo V90s, clarifying with purchasing habits what every auto industry observer, casual or professional,...

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Watch: The XC90’s Quirks Thoroughly Detailed

The XC90 Excellence is a car for the wealthiest of Volvo owners, so it naturally comes with many, many gadgets. Although we’ve tried to detail some of them in the past, there’s nothing quite like...

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