The automotive industry looks very different today than it did just a couple years ago. With all of the turmoil and posturing it's been difficult to keep up. Here's a rundown of where things stand today with each major car manufacturer.
A few years ago, things were much simpler. Take your pick: a Minivan or an SUV. As car companies began to introduce the Crossover, decisions became that much more difficult. By combining the desirable traits of both minivans and sport utility vehicles, crossovers have become very attractive to those in the market for a family car. When it comes to the decision making process, we can’t cure that headache of yours, but we help ease it by taking a look at what each product has to offer.
A favorite genre of many auto fiends is the “sleeper” - a car that looks like grandma’s Mercury but goes like stink. In this day and age of flashy, showy performance - with all the standard body kits, huge spoilers and obnoxious red badging automakers seem to believe belong on performance cars, the sleeper is a dying breed.
This week’s review is going to be a departure for us here at Automoblog. This won’t deal with how well a car deals with the grocery run, or whether it looks good while sitting in the driveway. This is a road trip. This is something special.
Automobile major Volvo Auto India plans to ramp-up its dealership network in the country from seven to 12 by end-December, a top company official said.
“At present, we are covering seven cities through our dealers and are planning to increase the number of dealers to 12 by end of 2010,” Volvo Auto India Managing Director Paul de Voijs told reporters.
The XC90 V8 Sport is designed for those who desire a more athletic variant of Volvo’s flagship luxury SUV. Introduced as a midyear addition to the lineup last year,
First undisguised photos of the premium segment mid-size SUV show that the next Volvo XC70 will get significantly more powerful and masculine appearance. It will look more like a scaled-down version of the range-topping Volvo XC90 rather than a more brutal variant of a V70 station wagon as it is now.
Volvo has teamed up with award winning Swedish game studio, SimBin Development Team, to release Volvo - The Game, which will allow you to transform into into one of five racing legends and take the wheel of various Volvo cars.
The Volvo C70 2010 is a 2-door, 4-passenger convertible, available in one trim only, the T5.
Upon introduction, the Volvo C70 2010 is equipped with a standard 2.5-liter, I5, 227-horsepower, turbo engine that achieves 20-mpg in the city and 28-mpg on the highway. A 6-speed manual transmission with overdrive is standard, and a 5-speed automatic transmission is optional.
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must think it’s on to something with their C30, because they’ve gone ahead and updated it and have been deluging the press with what’s so new and hot about it. On the one hand, the C30 makes sense. It’s sort of like Volvos answer to Audi’s A3, especially the three-door A3 that we, sadly, cannot get here in the states. The C30 comes across as small and sporty and stylish, not to mention a car that’s just begging to have the performance aftermarket have a go at it.
The Volvo XC90 2010 is a mid-size luxury crossover SUV produced by Volvo Cars since it was unveiled at the Detroit Motor Show 2002. It is based on the P2 platform, shared with the first generation Volvo S80 and other large Volvo cars. As Volvo's top-selling vehicle in the United States, the XC90 is also Volvo's best selling model worldwide with 85,994 cars sold in 2005.
Volvo has finally confirmed its plans to start selling the boiled-up C30 T5 R-Design sports hatchback, which will share its turbocharged 5-cylinder engine with the recently revealed Ford Focus RS sports hatch.
A couple of days ago we reported that Volvo might introduce a range of sports packs for the Volvo S40 and the Volvo V50, called the R-Line. Well, we were wrong. The sports pack line is called R Design.
Heico Sportiv tuners continue their experiments with the latest Volvo C30 hatchback and its "off-road" HS3 THOR variation. Built exclusively for the upcoming Essen Motor Show in Germany, the new Heico HS3 THOR_2 is almost a replica of its predecessor except for the all-wheel-drive system.
The Volvo C30 is aimed squarely at first time Volvo buyers and the young, hipster crowd. Since I'm both young and hip (or so I like to think) and found the car to be pure joy to drive, I would have to say that Volvo definitely has done things right.
It might not sound sexy but the S40's X-Factor is its calm-inducing qualities. We wouldn't say this is the car to set your heart racing - but it's certainly a car you can live with for a good few years. Design-wise it's understatement that wins the day, the S40 is very easy on the eye, both inside and out - just the wheels to make an urban commute more bearable but more than capable of dealing with the motorway slog too.
Volvo has been struggling amid slumping global sales, but that hasn’t stopped the automaker from diving into research and development. One such as product of its R&D efforts is a new plug-in hybrid that will be due by 2012. Volvo has committed itself to producing a high mileage diesel-electric plug-in hybrid, but it has yet to confirm its plans to sell the vehicle in the U.S.
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