Talk about marketing with total confidence, ladies and gentlemen! Volvo UK has just launched a campaign called "Bored of German Techno? Try some Swedish Metal". It sounds a bit sketchy at first, but ...

Why we tested it: This is the cheapest car Volvo sells in Australia; the diesel-powered, manual-only D2 hatchback. At $34,990 it forms the entry point to Volvo's new V40 range. Likes: Low entry price ...

This is the Volvo V40 Cross Country, its suffix denoting SUV pretensions for the V40 hatchback. You get a raised ride height, and some rugged body trim for £1000 ...

The crowded C-segment has traditionally been a struggle for Volvo. Until last year it had only a selection of misfits to compete with premium and high-end mainstream hatchbacks: the three-door C30, ...

The V40 mid-life facelift has been treated with a kind of mild negligence. Everybody expected an all-new car, but Volvo only gave it headlights. Yet these press images of the 2017 model year just had ...

The crowded C-segment has traditionally been a struggle for Volvo. Until last year it had only a selection of misfits to compete with premium and high-end mainstream hatchbacks: the three-door C30, ...

PERHAPS I’m getting lazy, but there are so many driver assist features in the Volvo V40 D2 R-Design, that I’m quite happy to sit back and let it take over. To begin with, it’s a smooth and effortless ...

Note: The dimensions shown above are for the Volvo D2 Kinetic, 1.6L, Diesel, 6 SPEED AUTOMATIC. To display dimensions about another variant, click on one of the rows in the table below. D2 Kinetic ...

The chunky appearance of off-roaders is a big plus point for a lot of car buyers, but not all of them want or need four-wheel-drive vehicles. Volvo’s V40 Cross Country models offer the 4x4 look ...

The V40 shows Volvo finally has a handle on how to fight in the prestige hatch market. And it needs to, given the Swedish car will take on the likes of Audi's A3 and the BMW 1 Series in Australia. The ...

Volvo makes a fine effort with its Scandinavian twist on a five-door luxury hatchback. The all-new Volvo V40 is charged with the unique and unenviable task of filling the shoes of three now-extinct ...

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