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2023 Volvo XC60 Review: Get the Recharge plug-in hybrid

The XC60 combines beautiful styling inside and out with excellent and efficient powertrains

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Volvo Cars picks Ember Technologies chief Jim Rowan as new CEO

Hakan Samuelsson to step down after a decade, will remain Polestar chairman

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Volvo updates XC60 and adds Android-based infotainment to more models

But it's part of a 'Digital Services Package' you'd have to extend after 4 years

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2021 Volvo XC60 Review | Swedish design; no assembly required

You won't confuse it for something from Germany or Japan

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Geely, with Volvo's help, plans to grow into a global auto giant

Founded in 1986 as maker of refrigerator parts, Geely now sells 2M cars per year

TAIZHOU, China/SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Chinese carmaker Geely plans to use a platform developed with input from Volvo to build new models in Malaysia for its partly owned Proton brand, a strategy that shows how it aims to accelerate its push to become China's first global auto giant. The yet-to-be-finalised plans for Proton are just one strand of a Geely project to revamp factories at home and abroad using joint platforms it has been perfecting with Volvo since 2013. Geely bought the Swedish bran

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Geely's Volvo Cars lays off 1,300 in Sweden as coronavirus slump takes hold

Volvo needs cash in the crisis, just like everybody else

Volvo Car Group, owned by China's Geely Holding, said on Wednesday it was giving notice of redundancy to 1,300 white-collar workers in Sweden as the impact from the pandemic raised the urgency of lowering structural costs. The carmaker, which has 24,000 staff in Sweden excluding some 2,000 consultants, said in a statement the measures also included a continued review and reduction of consultancy contracts but would not affect its manufacturing operations. CEO Hakan Samuelsson said the coronavi

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Tariffs, pricing pressures weigh down Volvo's upward trend

It sees similar problems through the rest of the year

It sees similar problems through the rest of the year.

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2020 Volvo XC60, V60 add Polestar Engineered trims

Haul stuff and haul ass simultaneously

Haul stuff and haul ass simultaneously.

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2019 Volvo XC60 Drivers' Notes Review | We're comfortable with it

Low-key luxury, but the verdict on this crossover isn't unanimous

Low-key luxury, but the verdict on this crossover isn't unanimous

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Volvo shifts XC60 production to avoid tariffs, chases record sales

Crossovers for U.S. shifted from China; quarterly profit up 29 percent

Crossovers for U.S. shifted from China; quarterly profit up 29 percent.

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First Ride: 2018 Volvo XC60 tackles Swedish test-and-torture track

Ascents and descents and a banked oval: The XC60 had to do it all.

The XC60 has accounted for 30 percent of Volvo's yearly sales. The new model needs to match that.

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Watch Volvo put its 2018 XC60 through rigorous crash tests

In one video, of a 30 mph rollover test, the car is barely even dented.

All the cameras, radar, and sensors in the world won't do a lick of good when a two-ton projectile unavoidably slams into an immoveable object.

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Volvo goes beyond automatic braking, adds automatic steering

The upcoming XC60 will add crash-avoidance steering features.

Volvo, take the wheel!

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Volvo XC60 safety demonstration goes awry

Driver Thought Car Had Pedestrian-Detection System; It Didn't

A Volvo salesperson recently attempted to demonstrate the XC60 City Safety system to a group of prospective car buyers. What the dealer didn't understand was the safety system, which helps avoid or mitigate collisions, doesn't detect pedestrians.

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2015 Volvo Ocean Race XC60 priced from $42,100*

Every three years, a half dozen or so teams of sailors embark on an epic eight-month, round-the-world sailboat race formerly called the Whitbread Round the World Race and known since 2001 as the Volvo Ocean Race. This year's event started a month ago in Alicante, Spain, and will end next June at the Swedish automaker's hometown of Gothenburg. And to mark the occasion, just as it has in years past, Volvo has launched a special edition of one of its ro

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12-year-old golfer wins Volvo for hole-in-one [w/video]

Some people just have all of the luck. Natasha Oon, a 12-year-old girl in Malaysia, was recently attending the 40th RSGC Ladies Amateur Open Championship at the Royal Selangor Golf Club with her parents. On a whim, she teed up a shot with her eight iron and scored a hole-in-one. That would have been impressive for a girl her age by any standards, but she didn't see the sign that said making the shot also won her a new Volvo XC60 T5. Not a bad pr

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2015 Volvo Inscription models get classy with an upgraded leather interior

If Volvo's recent spate of cool-looking concepts is any indication, the Swedish brand has some great new styling on the way. But it takes time for new vehicles to come to market. In the meantime, Volvo is livening up some of its interiors with an updated Inscription Package on the 2015 XC60 (pictured above) and

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Volvo updates Inscription packages for 2015 XC60, S80

Volvo is improving the luxury offered by the XC60 and S80 with upgrades to both models' Inscription packages for 2015. It is also making all of its models (other than the soon-to-be-replaced XC90) available with its new

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