Swedish manufacture Volvo plans to stop producing engines with more than 4 cylinders. The new engine family will be called the Volvo Environmental Architecture (VEA) and will include 4 and 3 cylinders engines; the target is lighter by about 200 pounds. Another ambitious goal for the Swedes is to reduce [...]
Swedish carmaker will drop S40 and V50 from U.S. lineup. The main cause is reduced sales. According to Volvo, S40 sales were down 30% last year, and during the first months of this year there is no improvement. V50 sales dropped more than 50 percent over the same period. Unlike [...]
During a press conference in Washington, DC, Volvo CEO Stefan Jacoby confirmed the information that V60 plug-in hybrid will hit USA dealerships in late 2013 or early 2014. Unlike the European version of the model, here Volvo will use the gasoline engine. In Europe, the V60 plug-in hybrid is expected [...]
Volvo officially announced it will unveil its first hybrid model at the Geneva Motor Show in March. According to the company V60 Plug-in Hybrid is a revolutionary model that has an average fuel consumption of just 1.9 liters per 100 km (123 mpg). From Volvo said that a conceptual model [...]
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