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Volvo's Success in Numbers

Volvo is winning over more and more customers, and the results of this influx are quite impressive. Volvo recently announced some noteworthy stats, including a reported 26.6% increase in sales, as well as a $600,000,000 Swedish Kronor profit (approximately $94,000,000 USD) .

The majority of Volvo's success has come from models like the Volvo S60 Sedan and the Volvo V60 Wagon in Europe. Every market the Swedish automaker represents saw?

Everyone knows that Volvo is best known for its safety and reliability. Not only have Volvo wagons, sedans, CUVs and SUVs won countless safety awards over the years, but Volvo even debuted the Safety Concept Car (SCC) , a concept car completely dedicated to safety,  at the North American International Auto Show  in 2001. Approximately ten years later, fifteen safety technologies featured in the Safety Concept Car (SCC) including the forward collision warning (which has since…

Volvo's "City Safe" Works!

Keeping statistics that roughly 75 percent of automobile collisions occur at below 20 miles per hour top of mind, Volvo is once again raising the benchmark on driver-safety technology with its new "City Safe" collision avoidance system. The system is designed with an optical radar system to monitor traffic up to 6 meters ahead. Should a car suddenly slow down or abruptly stop, "City Safe" will register the unexpected shift in speed and will automatically…