Tag: Volvo

14 DEC

2018 Volvo V60 – In-Depth Review

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14 DEC

2018 Volvo V60 in Depth: The Subdued Swedish Wagon

– Volvo and station wagons go together like Ikea and Swedish meatballs. The V60, Volvo’s smallest wagon offering, is neither the latest nor greatest example of the breed—that would be the larger V90—but it still offers a distinctive combination of practicality and Scandinavian style despite its age. (It was put into production in 2010 and […]

12 DEC

2019 Volvo XC40 First Drive: Make Room for This Small Luxe-UV

– Aren’t we full? Do we have the appetite for yet another subcompact luxury crossover SUV? After all, human civilization survived all the way to 2010 without any of these things. By our count, there are more than 10 brands competing in a 160,000-vehicle segment. Yet sales growth is forecast because, to many buyers, the […]

21 NOV

Next Step: Uber and Volvo Teaming to Build Thousands of Driverless Cars

– Volvo and Uber will undertake a massive expansion of their partnership involving automated vehicles over the next three years. After spending the past 15 months building prototypes that were subsequently deployed in select cities around the United States with human safety drivers behind the wheel, the two companies signed an agreement announced Monday that […]

20 NOV

Uber buying up to 24,000 self-driving cars from Volvo

(Reuters) — Uber plans to buy up to 24,000 self-driving cars from Volvo, marking the transition of the U.S. firm from an app used to summon a taxi to the owner and operator of a fleet of cars. The non-binding framework deal could offer San Francisco-based Uber a way to overcome setbacks at its autonomous driving […]

20 NOV

Uber is taking a big risk by ordering 24,000 cars from Volvo

Enlarge (credit: Uber) Uber has signed a deal with Volvo for 24,000 XC90 sport-utility vehicles for delivery between 2019 and 2021. With this deal—worth about $ 1 billion—Uber is essentially betting the company on a self-driving future. It’s a big, risky bet for Uber, which lost $ 2.8 billion in 2016 and is locked in […]

14 NOV

Volvo latest of 11 advertisers to pull ads from Sean Hannity's show

Turns out that when Martha and the Vandellas sang about the irresistible attraction to a bad boy and certain heartbreak, they were also singing about 21st-century politics: Nowhere to run to, baby, nowhere to hide. The point’s been demonstrated again with Volvo announcing, in a now-deleted tweet posted Nov. 13, that it will no longer […]

14 NOV

Junkyard Gem: 1990 Volvo 740 Station Wagon

1990 was an interesting year for those shopping for rear-wheel-drive Volvo station wagons. Close to the end of that year, customers in Volvo showrooms could choose between three related but very different wagons: the original 240, the new 1991 940, and the in-between 740. Here’s an example of the middle member of the overlapping Volvo […]