Passenger cars accounted for less than 20 percent of new vehicle sales in Canada last year. SUVs and pickups rule the road, but that doesn’t necessarily mean they’re better, smarter buys. For many people, a good old sedan or wagon makes more sense. They’re certainly hard to come by, though.

Sedans have lost a ton of customers to SUVs and crossovers in recent years, but there is still a heated battle going on in the compact luxury segment. Completely transformed for 2019, the Volvo S60 made a real big leap forward with the brand’s Scalable Product Architecture (SPA), refined styling …

SANTA MONICA, California – While the latest crop of Volvo cars and SUVs have struck styling, comfort, safety and technology home runs, we’re still yearning for a performance-oriented machine from the brand. Volvo claims its 2019 S60/V60 sports sedan and wagon are here to fit the bill. Now in its …

The Volvo S60 compact luxury sedan, the current generation of which was introduced six years ago, will not be renewed. In fact, it will stop being manufactured altogether toward the end of the month at the Ridgeville, South Carolina plant for the North American market. Production will continue for a …

Volvo boasts some terrific plug-in hybrid vehicles, at least when it comes to power and performance. EV range? Not so much, but a series of upgrades will change that. First, the rear-mounted electric motor gets a 65-percent bump in output, going from 87 hp to 143 hp and resulting in …

“It’s not the destination, it’s the journey,” as the saying would so inspiringly say. Well, the journey wasn’t so pleasant for this motivated Alberta driver as he was pulled over and fined by the Alberta RCMP for carrying lumber out of his Volvo S60 window. Home renovations can sometimes be …

Volvo has been doing things differently lately. The Swedish automaker is separating itself from competitors with sophisticated designs and a unique focus on electrified vehicles. Now, here comes the next generation of the Volvo S60 midsize sedan, which was introduced this week at the company’s new Charleston, South Carolina plant.

The Polestar performance variants of Volvo's S60 sedan and V60 wagon are getting the twin-charging treatment for the 2017 model year, according to the automaker. The S60 and V60 Polestar models will see their turbocharged six-cylinders traded in for 2.0-litre four-cylinder engines that are both supercharged and turbocharged, resulting in …

Volvo is currently hard at work modernizing its fleet of vehicles; the swedish automaker recently launched the XC90 SUV, while the upcoming S90 sedan and V90 wagon are set to be launched soon. Drivetrains are also all-new: nowadays, all new Volvos will come with a 2.0-litre engine tuneable for different …

A few months ago, Volvo announced that the company was pulling out of all racing series as soon as its contracts would allow it. The Swedish manufacturer announced that racing was dangerous, and that it therefore conflicted with their new approach toward safety. It seems they changed their minds; the …

The lifted sedan market has never been overflowing with competition: at one time, we had the Subaru Outback sedan and the older among you might remember the AMC Eagle sedan. Volvo decided that there was a niche there: by taking the suspension and plastic cladding from the V60 Cross Country …