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Jean-Paul Sartre is famous for the quote, "Hell is other people." You can argue given his personal philosophy whether he actually believed that, but it is a quote with which he is identified. If Volvo gets its way with its SARTRE there m...

Volvo will be shuttering the plant in 2013 that it co-owns with Pininfarina that produces the C70. That means that the hard top convertible will not be getting a third generation. To say farewell to its beautiful, if obscure, model, Volv...

It is planning for a compact crossover in four years

Volvo says that the company has returned to having an operating profit after over a year of getting itself established in China. The company will not announce fiscal results until March, but for the first six months of 2013, Volvo had an opera...

The managing director of Volvo UK says that it is in talks with Polestar to make the S60 Polestar a production reality. Even if it does make production, the S60 Polestar will be extremely limited and could cost more than £100k. The S60 P...

Volvo planned to build 1,000 for 2013 of its V60 Plug-in Hybrid models initially to gauge customer reaction. The cars have not even arrived in showrooms yet, and they are all already sold out. Volvo says that it will build 5,000 for 2014 to cope w...

It includes active steering and night and day animal and pedestrian detection

Volvo is showing the new features for the 2014 XC90 before it even reveals the new car, which is not due until the end of 2014. The new technologies include pedestrian detection at night, road edge and barrier detection, adaptive cruise control wi...

Volvo and Sweden want to be world leaders in autonomous tech

Volvo is taking the next step toward having an autonomous car on sale with a pilot project with self-driving Volvos on public roads in Sweden in 2014. One hundred self-driving Volvos will take part in the pilot project on 50km of public roads arou...

Volvo has temporarily stopped work at its Torslanda factory due to low automotive demand in Europe. The work stoppage will be in effect from October 29 to November 2.  Employees will be paid while the factory is closed. Volvo says th...

It thinks that it could be a great alternative to cords for PHEVs

Volvo has just completed a public test in Belgium of inductive charging on specially equipped Volvo C30 Electric cars and public buses. There is a belief among automakers that one of the obstacles to plug-in electric cars becoming popular is t...

It will debut at the Frankfurt Motor Show

Volvo has a concept for the Frankfurt Motor Show called the Concept C Coupe that it has revealed in a very short video. The car is barely visible in the video unless you pause it as just the right time.  The images hint at an angular desi...