Tests and Features

BARCELONA, Spain – How many of you like the Volvo brand? I, for one, have always rooted for the Swedish company. I applauded, and continue to do so, their constant desire to stand out from the crowd with unique design and their unrelenting quest to make the safest cars ever.

Volvo is in it to win and the imminent arrival of their compact XC40 crossover is proof. The current XC60 is an excellent alternative to the German onslaught that includes the Audi Q5 , Mercedes-Benz GLC and BMW X3 . The XC40’s job will be to take on the hotly …

Aside from some darker moments during its long history, the Volvo brand has always known how to design beautiful vehicles. Especially beautiful station wagons. We can immediately think of the spectacular P1800ES, introduced in 1972. The latest of these wagons is the all-new Volvo V90 , which has just been …

It isn’t easy for a luxury automaker to rival the established German brands—Audi, BMW and Mercedes-Benz, of course—and especially when it comes to high-performance models. Some markets have a greater fondness for products developed by Audi Sport, BMW M and Mercedes-AMG, and Canada is one of those. We’re amongst the …

MILAN, Italy — If you find that Volvo has been kind of quiet over the last decade, you’re right. But times they are a-changing! After a period of restructuring, the Swedish brand’s development plan has finally been set in motion. The latest products meet expectations and that’s exactly what the …

MIRABEL, Quebec – Although beauty is in the eye of the beholder—including when it comes to cars—there’s no debate about the beauty of Volvo’s new V90 wagons. Well, almost no debate. To the antisocial buzzkills who think otherwise, we have message for you: too bad. Amazingly, the cabins of these …

Barcelona, Spain – Woody Allen once said, "Eternity is a long time, especially towards the end." Volvo seems to have reached that point and has decided to completely update its best-selling XC60 after a long career that spanned ten years and over a million units sold. So it’s a fresh …

A concept version of what would become The Saint’s car, an experimental taxicab created for an American contest, and a Rocket concept that makes us think that, in retrospect, the square shape of Volvos wasn’t so bad after all. Spotlight on styling exercises that are on display at the Volvo …

After the successful launch of the XC90 midsize SUV almost two years ago, Swedish brand Volvo followed up with the S90 and the V90 wagon. All these new models were styled and engineered under the company’s new design language and environmentally friendly personality. The S90 replaced the aging and unloved …

ÅRE, Sweden — If there’s one thing selling faster than hotcakes in Canada right now, it’s sport utility vehicles. With very few exceptions, however, they aren’t particularly utilitarian or sporty. Thankfully, a few tough, svelte and spry steeds are effortlessly breezing past the herd that so often drags its hooves.