Volvo has released its financials for the first quarter of 2023, with the company looking to accelerate its electric transformation plans with a strong 7 per cent increase in operating profit. All up, the results were a fairly mixed bag, with Volvo Cars reporting a significant jump in revenue for […]
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2023 Volvo C40 Recharge Twin review (video)
Welcome to the 2023 Volvo C40. This is Volvo’s fully electric coupe SUV alternative to its XC40 small SUV, bringing across all of the company’s usual suave and refined design qualities, wrapped up in a sportier package. Here we’re testing the twin motor version called, fittingly, the Twin, with an […]
2023 Volvo XC60 Recharge Ultimate T8 review (video)
We first fell in love with the Volvo XC60 T8 plug-in hybrid in 2020. It was one of the first SUVs to roll sheer performance and efficiency into one vehicle. For 2023, the luxury SUV has been updated with more power, more electric driving range, more features, refreshed design elements, […]
Volvo global sales drop 12% in 2022, up 18% in Australia
Volvo Cars has released its global sales figures for 2022, revealing a steep drop in deliveries due to supply chain constraints and lockdowns in China. However, the company has reported a significant rise in battery-electric vehicle deliveries. The mixed set of results was headlined by a significant drop of 12 […]
2023 Volvo C40 Recharge review – Australian launch
Electric vehicles are rapidly becoming not only the trending purchase, but actually the norm in some market segments. Particularly the small-to-medium size SUV class. So much so that Volvo now offers two options in this category, with the XC40 Recharge and now the sporty sibling, the C40 Recharge. Volvo hasn’t […]
2022 Volvo V60 Cross Country review (video)
Volvo has become a benchmark car maker for elegance and sophistication. This adds to its longstanding heritage in safety and innovation, influenced by bold targets. One of those targets in recent years is to become a fully electric brand by 2030. As part of that transition, all petrol-powered Volvos sold […]
Volvo rolling out over-the-air update adding Apple CarPlay
In some positive news for Volvo owners that use an iPhone, the company has announced that Apple CarPlay support will be added to its vehicles via the latest over-the-air update. Volvo’s current infotainment system is built on the Android operating system (OS) which is a Google product. It has now […]
Volvo global sales in H1 2022 drop 23% amid “turbulent” second quarter
Volvo Cars has posted its earnings report for the second quarter and first half of this year, revealing a 27 per cent drop in sales in a self-described “turbulent” second quarter brought on by increasing material costs, supply chain constraints and COVID lockdowns in China. All up, Volvo sold 291,300 […]