Volvo Of Lisle

If you've been reading the Volvo of Lisle blog lately, you have a pretty good idea of how quickly and drastically, Volvo Car Corporation is evolving to support their recently announced business plan aimed at taking a significant percentage of the luxury auto market. They're redefining everything - from their target audience to their global tagline to their future model lineup. The change, Volvo of Lisle wants to focus on today, however, has to…

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…

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…

After months of speculation, and two years of concept, the Volvo all new Volvo C30 electric car has finally begun production.

Volvo says 250 C30 Electrics will be produced between now and the end of 2012. Sales will begin in the form of leasing programs throughout Europe, where the C30 Electric car just spent a year as part of a pilot program which tested its all-electric engine in day-to-day driving.

Electric C30 stores power in…

We at Volvo Of Lisle have once again been reassured that we're not alone in our admiration for the 2011 Volvo S60 sedan. The racy-looking, fierce-driving sedan recently picked up the '2011 International Sedan of the Year' title at the New York International Auto Show, awarded by none other than the International Car of the Year Jury (ICOTY).

The show was also marked a very special occasion for the ICOTY Awards, which celebrated their…

Volvo has recently been awarded a 6.57-million-Swedish-kronar ($1.06-million) grant from the Swedish Energy Agency to develop the next-generation flywheel technology for kinetic recovery of braking energy in collaboration with Volvo Powertrain and SKF.

Unlike the flywheel propulsion assistance Volvo tested in the '80s and which other auto manufacturers have also evaluated, the flywheel Volvo plans to use in its test car is comprised of super lightweight carbon fiber. In its earlier iterations, flywheels…

The Volvo P1800 was conceived to catch and hold people's attention. The "new sports car", which is how Volvo originally presented the P1800 featured a fixed roof, a steel body, a collection of mechanical components "lifted straight from the Amazon", and the fresh 100 horsepower (hp) sports B18 engine.

The Swedish automaker took great pains perfecting the car, keeping it in the planning and development stage for four years, before putting it into production…

As you can imagine, presentation is everything at the International Geneva Motor Show. After all, it is the forum for automakers around the world to display their latest auto innovations.

This year, Volvo Car Corporation and Volvo Cars Switzerland created the best display at the show and was effectively awarded with the Creativity 2011 prize. As you can see below, it was Volvo's consistent performance and expression of brand and values that were particularly…