Jessica Rowe has paid tribute to the Good Samaritan bus driver who helped her and her daughter escape their burning car moments before it exploded in a fireball. The television star was picking up her eldest daughter Allegra, 14, from school in Sydney’s eastern suburbs on Thursday afternoon when the black Volvo XC 60 began … Read more
Volvo has today unveiled a new battery-powered crossover – the C40 Recharge – as it announces new green plans to sell only electric cars exclusively online and slash the number of variants available. The new ‘vegan Volvo’ is also the first model from the Swedish car maker to be completely leather-free, it says. The C40 … Read more
Volvo’s entire line-up will be fully electric by 2030 as it phases out all cars with internal combustion engines, including hybrids, it said today. The Chinese-owned Swedish company followed the likes of Ford and Jaguar Land Rover in recent weeks, in outlining plans to ditch petrol and diesel engines by the end of this decade. … Read more
Volvo’s entire car line-up will be fully electric by 2030 as it phases out the production of all models with internal combustion engines, including hybrids, the Chinese-owned company said on Tuesday. It followed the likes of Ford and Jaguar Land Rover in recent weeks to outline its plans to ditch petrol and diesel engines by … Read more
A church treasurer was struck by a Volvo and killed after stepping into the road to take a floodlit picture of the I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here! castle, an inquest heard. Mother-of-two Sharn Iona Hughes, 58, travelled ten miles from her home to Gwrych Castle in Abergele, North Wales to see the lights on the … Read more
That’s what you call HIGH safety standards: Volvo drops ten of its cars from a 100-foot crane in extreme durability test of its latest models Volvo performed the stunt to better understand how well its cars can withstand collisions at very high speeds The Swedish brand has its own crash test facility but says it’s … Read more
Swedish car maker Volvo has patented a system that could allow customers to choose if they want the steering wheel in the middle of the car, or moved to the left or ride side of the vehicle. Sketches show a design that allows the wheel to be moved to three locations across the dashboard and … Read more
Volvo is synonymous with making safe cars but its biggest model, the Volvo XC90, has been named the least reliable model in the UK by a comprehensive report. Which? polled 47,000 car owners as part of its Reliability Survey and the huge Volvo 4X4 came bottom in the rankings. Nearly three quarters of owners with … Read more
Volvo recalls 170,000 UK cars due to ‘extremely rare’ seatbelt fault that impacts 2.2million vehicles globally Recall is biggest in Volvo’s history and impacts some 2.2m models worldwide Problem affects front seatbelts fastenings, mounted on the outer side of seats A fastening cable can suffer reduced strength ‘under certain circumstances’ It said instances of the fault … Read more
Elderly female driver injures eight pedestrians as she drives her Volvo estate car into socially-distanced queue outside Morrisons supermarket A car driven by an elderly female has hit eight pedestrians in Paignton, Devon The Volvo V70 crashed into the pedestrians outside Morrisons on Totnes Road Police and paramedics are at the scene, with the extent of … Read more