The C30, an all new vehicle from Volvo, proves that safety and sexy can co-exsist. The 2008 Volvo C30 we tested featured a 2.5 L 5-cylinder turbocharged engine that put out 227hp (a manual transmission is available but our tester was an automatic). Nothing was lost on the C30 from the styling to [...]
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Check out the car review video of the 2007 Volvo S80. The brand that has been known for safety seems to have also stepped it up in the luxury and style department. We’ll have our full review and pictures up soon. We think you’ll be pleasantly surprised at what Volvo has done [...]
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The Volvo XC90 is a special kind of sport utility vehicle. It’s not really for everyone; so if you’re after a boring, assimilating crossover utility, you better look somewhere else.
For starters, the XC90 is a looker as far as SUVs go. There’s a lot of Volvo sedan heritage everywhere, a trick the Europeans [...]
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A convertible Volvo? In “Passion Red” paint? We know; unexpected to say the least. And yet, it isn’t at all incongruous. When the spanking-new Swede showed up in our fleet, we’d already heard the major talking points: folding metal roof, T5 motor, manual transmission, marginally affordable sub-$40K pricetag. All pluses, to be sure, but [...]
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Volvo, the Swedish brand known for putting occupant safety above all else, has done well in North America trading on its traditional strengths. Staid and solid - if a bit boxy and boring - over the past four decades, Volvo has had little trouble attracting enough of a slice of the safety-conscious American consumer market [...]
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