Volvo Cars adds a little luxury with Excellence Child Seat Concept
[fusion_text] Volvo Cars’ design team has completely re-imagined how children could travel safely in cars in the future. The move follows the Shanghai reveal of Volvo’s XC90 Excellence and the Lounge Console Concept, which marked a bold and luxurious step forward for the Swedish car brand.
Global safety rating results confirm Volvo Cars’ safety leadership
With every new vehicle launched, and every new safety feature developed, Volvo Cars is another step closer to reaching its Vision 2020 target. Vision 2020 is the bold goal Volvo Cars set for itself with the aim that by the year 2020 Volvo’s there will be no more serious injuries or fatalities in a new […]
Volvo S60 earns top result in severe offset crash test
Volvo Car Corporation’s leadership in vehicle safety is once again highlighted by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS). In the latest report the Volvo S60 is one out of only two cars to earn the best rating in IIHS’s new offset frontal crash test. In the new test, 25 percent of the car’s front […]
VOLVO HELPS DRIVERS COMBAT HAYFEVER
Automatically shuts out pollen and pollution from the cabin Major safety benefits associated with avoiding sneezing whilst driving Volvo has gone a long way to helping hay fever sufferers reduce their symptoms whilst in a car by fitting all of its models with either an Air Quality System (AQS) or Pollen Filter, as standard.
Volvo Car Corporation’s pedestrian airbag: here’s how it works
Seven sensors, advanced technology and an airbag that deploys at lightning speed in the windscreen area. These are some of the main elements of Pedestrian Airbag Technology – the system that makes Volvo Car Corporation with its all-new Volvo V40 the first manufacturer to produce this innovative technology.
VOLVO SAFETY WORLD FIRST SET TO HELP FURTHER REDUCE THE 1.3 MILLION PEOPLE KILLED ON ROADS
The world’s first pedestrian airbag fitted as standard on the all-new Volvo V40 is the next step towards the manufacturers target that no-one should be killed or injured in a new Volvo by 2020. The revolutionary new airbag is launched one year after Volvo, as a strategic partner of the Parliamentary Advisory Council for Transport […]
Volvo City Safety Technology Drives Down Chauffeur Company At Fault Rear Impact Accidents
Volvo’s City Safety technology helps chauffeur company, Tristar, improve customer safety and reduce vehicle-off-road costs Tristar’s rear impact accidents, where the driver was at fault have decreased by 28% in the first six months of trialling City Safety From Spring 2012, it is planned that all of Tristar’s Volvo fleet will be fitted with City […]
Volvo: Saving lives on Brazilian roads
Anaelse Oliveira, the co-ordinator of the Volvo Traffic Safety Programme in Brazil Saving lives on Brazilian roads When truck driver Flávio Ibarra Garcia gets behind the wheel to drive between Brazil, Argentina and Chile, he knows he is setting out on a risky assignment. Every year, 37,000 people die in the traffic in Brazil and […]
Volvo S60 and V60 get five star safety ratings in Europe and the United States
Volvo Car Corporation’s safety leadership is once again confirmed by full star results on both sides of the Atlantic. The Volvo V60 received five stars and has been named best car in the Large Family category in the 2011 Euro-NCAP rating. In the United States, the Volvo S60 achieved an overall five star NHTSA crash […]
Designed Around You Volvo Tradition of Safety
In 1927 Volvo’s founders Assar Gabrielsson and Gustaf Larson stated that “Cars are driven by people. Therefore the guiding principle behind everything we make at Volvo is – and must remain – safety.”
Designed Around You Volvo Cars on the move towards a future without traffic accidents
Volvo’s 2020 Vision We are the most human-centric car brand in the motor industry. Our founders Assar Gabrielsson & Gustav Larson said in 1927: “Cars are driven by people. Therefore the guiding principle behind everything we make at Volvo is – and must remain – safety.”
Intelligent cars avoid accidents
The aim with tomorrow’s cars is, quite simply, that they be able to avoid accidents. The core of Volvo’s 2020 Vision is to build cars so safe as to completely eliminate the risk of fatal or serious injuries. And every advance in Volvo’s safety systems is another step closer to this goal. Many of today’s […]