According to a report from the Wall Street Journal, General Motors is working on a deal with Renault to hand over Saturn, providing the French automaker with a “launching pad” to expand into North America. The WSJ’s sources say that the deal with GM would allow Renault and its South Korean subsidiary, Samsung Motors, to [...]
Mattias Vöcks is at it again. Back in 2006, the Swedish-born designer who normally spends his days hand-assembling supercars for Koenigsegg used the SEMA to debut his show-stopping custom 1967 Volvo Amazon that was once voted “Sweden’s Hottest Volvo.” That title may soon go out to another of Vöcks’ stunning creations, this time based on [...]
Volvo and racetrack: While the words aren’t mutually exclusive, we’re sure that the Swedish marque with the safety chops isn’t on the tip of your tongue when talk turns to motorsport. Volvo has made its name known through various racing efforts through the years, and in an effort to bring the S60 Concept to a [...]
Last week Volvo announced a range of car seats designed with Britax specifically for Volvo cars. The same announcement also stated the seats wouldn’t be for sale in the U.S. because NHTSA doesn’t allow the sale of car seats only meant for specific cars. In our reader poll of your opinion, more than 80% of [...]
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The safety-conscious folks over at Volvo have been hard at work with child seat maker Britax-Romer on developing a range of next-generation infant, child, and booster seats. And while the seats are going on sale elsewhere in the world, they apparently face an obstacle in the US: the National Higway Traffic Safety Administration. How’s that? [...]
The best days for Volvo’s S60 are behind it. The once-strong sales have fallen from 100,000 units in the early years to a scant 6,200 in 2008. As nice as the S60 is, even Volvo knows its played out, and they’re experts at keeping models on life support. To make room for the new S60, [...]
Peter Horbury is returning to finish what he started. The charismatic British designer is shifting from leading Ford’s American design efforts back to Volvo, the Swedish automaker at which he helped bring emotional surface language to the fore in the Nineties. Horbury leaves the Blue Oval having presided over the department’s design efforts for much [...]
Details are scarce at the moment, but we have learned that Volvo’s award-winning design director, Steve Mattin, has left the company. While no further details are immediately available (why he left, where he is headed, possible successors, etc.), Dan Johnston, Volvo’s East Coast PR manager confirmed the news to us after placing a call to [...]