Posts Tagged ‘Volvo’
Drive News – Volvo S60 campaign awards Paris “Naughtiest City” accolade.
July 30th, 2010 
Russell These Swedes are crazy. Still it’s a cute little video with nice music and a remotely scientific premise. Perfect for some light Friday morning fun. I just think they should’ve thrown their net a bit wider — I’m sure Jo’Burg could’ve had a good run for this title. Incoming search terms for the article:volvo [...]
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Drive test – 2010 Volvo C30 T5
May 24th, 2010 Russell An OK car comes good! When Volvo’s C30 T5 first came out, the performance motoring world, particularly in hot climates like over here, got quite excited. Here, after all, was a Focus ST with all of the charms of this pugnascious Ford and a whole added heap of style and sophistication, which also hopefully didn’t [...]
Launch Drive: Volvo C30 and C70
March 29th, 2010 Christo The Scandinavians aren’t exactly known for their mainstream approach to beauty. Living in a country that exerts a stark beauty, it’s not surprising that their award-winning designs are usually of the clinical, functional variety than say the emotive beauty of Italian design. Until recently, most Volvos also suffered from that clinical, functional approach which, while [...]
Volvo Sold
March 29th, 2010 Kyle Stone Ford has done the deed, the sale of of their Swedish division Volvo has gone through to Geely, the Chinese firm paying $1.8 billion for Volvo. The sale, officially signed off on the 28th of March, includes Volvo intellectual property and assets, and will be concluded in the third quarter of 2010 with Geely taking [...]
Quick Test: Volvo S80 D5
February 10th, 2010 Christo A few weeks ago when Steve tested Volvo’s S80 2.5, he made reference to the fact that South Africans seem to have an eerie loyalty towards products of German origin. Sure, the Germans make some excellent cars, but so do the Japanese, the Swedes and the Koreans. For some reason, you’ve not arrived if your [...]
Drive Test – Volvo S80 2.5T
February 4th, 2010 Steve A Car for life Alternately, read the full test in Drive Magazine. Volvo seem to have a problem with resale value in this country and I’ve never really been sure why. In Europe the Swedish limousines are considered to be right up there with German premium brands. Volvos are also built like the proverbial brick [...]
Quick Test: Volvo C30 T5
February 3rd, 2010 Christo I love movies that feature cars, especially when they drive the specific car in a way you would rarely – if ever – see in reality. Think what Jason Statham and Liam Neeson did with Audi’s S8 in Transporter 2 and Taken respectively. Or that one Bruce Willis movie in which he drove a 7-series [...]
A Swede in Beijing
November 16th, 2009 Christo Volvo, for long the bastion of forward-thinking Scandinavian automotive design, is in trouble. Sold to Ford in 1999 for a whopping US$6.4 billion, Ford has been unable to turn a profit and now needs to dump it, much like they dumped Jaguar and Land Rover. But if you found Jag and Land Rover’s sale to [...]
Volvo's new S60 is sculpted to move you
November 12th, 2009 Christo Volvo has just released the first official photos of its all-new S60 and it certainly is the most dynamic and aggressive Volvo to date. Due for local launch late next year, it’s designed to bring a new level of elegance and dynamism to the Volvo line-up. “The all-new Volvo S60 is sculpted to move you. [...]
