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Volvo Penta India showcased its stage V technology engine for off-highway applications. A key competitive feature of the engine is that the engine's unique design and exhaust aftertreatment system provide [...]

Byline: Jerry Hirsch While electric trucks are poised to take over hauling cargo locally and regionally, the industry is looking at hydrogen fuel cell rigs for longer distances. Nikola, Freightliner, [...]

Byline: Richard Truett Traditionally, automakers didn't install anything on a vehicle that they couldn't charge for. While it might simplify manufacturing somewhat to build each vehicle with the same set [...]

Byline: Urvaksh Karkaria Volvo's next flagship crossover will be all-electric and could pay homage to the Swedish automaker's lineage. Volvo filed for trademark protection in October for the name Embla, [...]

Byline: Urvaksh Karkaria * The plan: Volvo will become an all-electric brand by 2030. The transformation will usher in a new approach to retailing, with Volvo moving to an online-only, [...]

Is this what the next generation of 8x4 tippers will look like? CM tries Volvo's new FMX, laden with 20 tonnes of Swedish stone and all the latest technology YOU'RE [...]

The features of Volvo's new sport utility vehicle S80 are discussed.

The S80 saloon was used by Volvo as a platform for development of the XC90 as a part of the project to enter the field of sports utility vehicles. The details of the project are discussed.

Volvo's new XC90 sport utility vehicle will go on sale in October 2002 for 30,400 pounds sterling. The seven-passenger vehicle has more ground clearance than the BMW X5 and Mercedes M-class. Customers in the United Kingdom will get the choice of either a six-cylinder twin-turbo 3.0-liter petrol with 272 brake horsepower and a five-cylinder 2.4-liter turbodiesel with 163 brake horsepower.

Have you ever wondered why so many cars look so much alike when the very nature of the car business may be to reinvent its products every year? Well, reinvention […]

Volvo has developed the Four-C or Continuously Controlled Chassis Concept for suspension control.

Gothenburg, Sweden-based Volvo AB, which is owned by Ford Motor Co., is developing the new Safety Concept Car for its parent company. The Volvo EyeCar, which includes electronic sensors that adjust the driver's position for safety, will be introduced at the NAIAS trade show in Detroit, Michigan.

Byline: Paul McVeigh Thomas Ingenlath's first auto show concept since taking over as Volvo's chief designer last year is expected to be a preview of the brand's new styling direction. [...]

A prototype Volvo truck with a 13-litre engine that runs on the alternative fuel dimethylether (DME) is to be tested by a number of companies on public roads in Sweden [...]

Byline: Jason Stein, Wim Oude Weernink Saab and Volvo are developing cars that could help them grab a piece of one of Europe's hottest segments. Volvo is readying a production [...]

Type of vehicle: Three-door hatchback concept What's cool: 260-hp turbocharged five-cylinder engine delivers 0-60 in under 6 seconds. Production possibility: It's a go. The European edition launches in late 2006; [...]

Brian Weatherley sees a revolutionary automated braking system in action. Volvo is actively working on an automatic braking system that could prevent a truck from ploughing into a queue of [...]

Lyons: Topping the Titan took just one day How well is the Nissan Titan full-sized pickup doing? Here's how Ford Division President Steve Lyons answers that question: 'On the last [...]

Keep it simple Many automakers want more female buyers, but often are uncertain exactly what women want. Volvo took a new approach: Let women design the car. Volvo will unveil [...]

Byline: Bradford Wernle How much does the new Volvo S40 sedan have in common with the Ford Focus C-Max? A little or a lot, says S40 project manager Peter Ewerstrand. [...]

Byline: Mark Anders, Bryna Bates, Dan Carney, David Carnoy, Dan Ferber, Brian Fortner, Harald Franzen, Ben Hewitt, Irene Mona Klotz, Dan Lienert, David Logan, Gary Merson, Steve Morgenstern, Rena Pacella, [...]

Byline: Bradford Wernle Volvo is the telematics center of excellence for Ford's Premier Automotive Group, which also includes Aston Martin, Jaguar and Land Rover. Niklas Wahlberg, PAG telematics director, says [...]

Byline: Rick Kranz Volvo will show five scale models at the New York auto show of different exterior designs that the automaker is considering for a new small car. ``Concept [...]

Byline: Bradford Wernle Automotive News Europe When Ford and Volvo engineers were designing common components and technologies for their next-generation lower-medium cars in Cologne, they quickly realized systems had to [...]

* Launch new S40 this fall * Develop new large platform for S60, V70 and S80 replacements with Ford of Europe; also for use by Jaguar and Land Rover * [...]

Byline: Wim Oude Weernink Volvo ``most likely'' will launch a new small car, says CEO Hans-Olov Olsson. While Volvo still is considering a car smaller than the S40, it has [...]

The Geneva auto show will once again be a showcase for crossover vehicles - cars such as the new Opel Signum. But there is much more going on at the [...]

Byline: STEVE FINLAY SANTA BARBARA, CA - Before Volvo's first-ever SUV hits the U.S. market, company executives are focusing on what it will be worth in a few years as [...]

MERCEDES-BENZ smart: The redesigned minicar may be sold here as early as 2004. If imported, the smart probably would be marketed only in select markets, such as New York, Los [...]

Bosch sees growth of modules Telematics will be used in new ways, said Siegfried Dais, management board member responsible for car multimedia and automotive electronics at Robert Bosch GmbH, at [...]

Byline: Compiled by the staff of: WARD'S AUTOMOTIVE REPORTS Ford Motor Co.'s Ford, Jaguar and Volvo engineers are developing a new 6-speed manual transmission to meet the need for a [...]

Volvo is developing a new small car that would fit below the S40/V40 in its lineup. The new Volvo would challenge 'segment-busting' vehicles such as the Mercedes-Benz A class, Audi [...]

Ford Motor Co. has given AB Volvo the go-ahead to develop a proposed new family of Safe, Light, Inline, Multivalve (SLIM) engines that allow cars to be more ecologically friendly. [...]

Remember those Subaru commercials in which the Japanese automaker slammed Volvo and its safety image because Volvo doesn't offer all-wheel drive across the board? Well, AWD is becoming more prevalent […]

If you've ever felt like you needed to sit on a telephone book to see over the dash in your SUV--or wished another driver was--then Volvo has a concept car [...]

Price: $37,475-$46,875 Volvo's S80 luxury car, the first of the round Volvos, has only a few equipment changes for 2001. Leather seating is now standard for both the 2.9 and [...]

The Volvo safety concept car (SCC) acts as a showcase for new features that give drivers a better view of the road and more overall 'survivability.' It sets the driver [...]

DETROIT--Volvo's new Safety Concept Car (SCC) is built around the human eye. Volvo SCC project director Erling Pedersen believes that sitting properly and optimizing the driver's visibility of what's going […]

Volvo's Saab story With a keen eye on Saab's Viggen variants, Volvo has built a high-performance concept version of its new V60 sedan, called Blue Bolt. The Blue Bolt's 2.5L/300-hp […]

The new SecureCar technology inside the Volvo S80, was developed from a security system used by a national laboratory to protect nuclear power plants, says Volvo. The system uses an [...]