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Volvo Plans to Make Death-Proof Vehicles

Volvo just made a bold promise. The car company vowed that by the year 2020, its cars and SUVs will be death-proof. Lex Kerssemakers, the CEO of the company’s North America division, commented on the promise. He said, “If you meet Swedish engineers, they’re pretty genuine. They don’t say things when they don’t believe in it.” Predicting the Future The car compan

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Volvo's Rise

Volvo walked away from the North American International Auto Show with their heads rising higher than they were after CES. The Swedish Company walked right into the biggest Auto Show in North America and proceeded to steal the show. The timing could not be better for the foreign auto manufacturer; still reeling from internal restructuring issues. Ford sold Volvo to Chinese investors in 2010. Despi

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Volvo Looks to Own 2016

Let’s face it: Volvo is hardly the sexiest of auto brands. But they did a fairly credible Justin Timberlake impression the past two years thanks to vehicles like the 2016 Volvo XC90 (pictured), and the automaker appears poised to continue its positive momentum in 2016. In fact, Volvo confidently predicts that it’ll shatter its annual auto sales record for the third year in a row. As per Bloomberg

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A KITT in Every Garage: The Future of Self-Driving Vehicles

“I’ve called science fiction ‘reality ahead of schedule.’" -Syd Mead, sci-fi visual-effects artist Last week, the Japanese periodical Nikkei reported on Toyota’s plans to slash 90% of its line of CO2 emitting vehicles by 2050. While 35 years may seem like a long time from now, it represents a light-year jump in progress relative to the glacial pace of the automotive industry. For those who want t

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Volvo Accepts Responsibility for Self-Driving Vehicles

Volvo Cars CEO Hakan Samuelsson warned a Washington, D.C audience that the U.S. “risks losing its leading position” as a producer of self-driving vehicles unless it institutes a framework for regulating and testing them. Speaking before a seminar at the Embassy of Sweden, Samuelsson praised the U.S. for its progressiveness on self-driving vehicle technology but cautioned that the country is in da

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Plug-in Hybrid SUV Race: Volvo XC90

The Volvo XC90 is entering its second generation. This new generation is beyond exciting. Before its official release in the fall later this year; it has already nearly reached its projected production numbers for 2015: 44,000 of 50,000 in pre-orders with at least another month before hitting showrooms. And that was only in the span of less than a year from its unveiling last year. It has also wo

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