Volvo’s compact XC40 crossover made its North American debut this week at the Los Angeles Auto Show, and it brings with it a new model for automobile ownership. “We wanted to make buying a Volvo as easy as getting a phone.” “The subscription model is becoming a more common way to access many products and services,” noted Anders Gustafss

Back in 2015, I drove the Volvo V60 Polestar at the Automobile Journalists Association of Canada’s annual Testfest. As is the nature of the event, this was the car’s debut, and it won its category: Best New Sports/Performance Over $50,000. Auto writers love a sporty car, especially a dark-horse European one (contenders that year included the Ford M

Vehicle Type Convertible History/Description With an eye for safety, confidence and all things sensibly Swedish, the Volvo C70 combined four-seat comfort and space with a roof-optional motoring experience that’s big on luxury and peace of mind. Geared and tuned for hours-long top-off comfort rather than feats of performance, the C70 was

The Ferrari F40: common. The Lamborghini Aventador: ubiquitous. The Bentley Continental: might as well buy a Volkswagen Golf. If exclusivity and rarity are your bag, then this is your baby: the Volvo V60 Polestar. With just 750 produced worldwide (and another 750 on the way) and only a dozen or so bound for Canada's shores, it's a rare beast, a

Vehicle Type Luxury Sport Sedan Comfort, confidence, performance and really-frickin-good wintertime driving manners. History/Description This used review is a little self-serving, because your writer is a big-time fan of the Volvo S60 , and a potential candidate for a used model, some day. The reason is simple: as someone based i

Vehicle Type Three-door hatch History/Description Blending funky styling and Scandinavian sensibility was the job of Volvo’s entry-level model, the C30. Now discontinued, this unique three-door four-seater looked like the love-child of R2D2 and a Honda CRX, and combined tried and true Volvo attributes with a look and style not easily mista

Vehicle Type Luxury Sedan History/Description Volvo’s top-dog S80 was available in its most recent generation to us Canadians from model year 2007 to present day, with numerous updates and facelifts applied to keep things fresh. Designed and engineered with a Swedish eye for practicality, sensibility, elegant luxury and safety, prime pur

The following are five reasons why your writer thinks the Volvo S60 is a hell of a luxury sedan for Canadian drivers: The Volvo S60 is a hell of a luxury sedan for Canadian drivers 1)    It has the most comfortable seats you’ll sit in, in the course of your day. 2)    It has a truly unique and upscale cabin that’s not lined in gawdy

Review by Jacob Black, photos by Jonathan Yarkony The XC90 is enormous. Imposing. Gargantuan. Large. Big. Huge. A behemoth. A different set of classical music played in my head every time I walked towards the 2016 Volvo XC90. Sometimes, it was the “da-da-daaahh” of Toccata and Fugue in D-Minor. Sometimes it was “Fate Knocking” from Sym

It could easily be argued that Volvo’s XC60 is fast approaching its expiration date, though you might not be able to tell from looking at it. The XC60 has been soldiering on since 2009 when it was introduced as a 2010 model, and despite some of the underlying tech feeling dated, the XC60 remains a standout in the compact luxury crossover segment

We're looking forward to seeing what Volvo does to turn its big 2017 Volvo S90 and V90 into high-performance models to rival the quickest German sedans and wagons and, apparently, so is the Swedish luxury car maker. At the recent Detroit auto show, the UK's Autocar magazine had a chat with Volvo bosses, who said the newest members of the Pol

Maybe it's Subaru's fault for stealing Volvo's core clientele of cross-country skiing, Birkenstock-wearing, outdoorsy granola-crunchers during the 1980s. Or perhaps it's Ikea's fault for forever associating Swedish design with the cheap-and-cheerful college crowd. But for whatever reason, Volvo is now arguably the most overlooked and underrated of

Volvo today announced it's branching out into a new realm of vehicle safety with a line of armoured models in certain markets. The flagship of the new range is the XC90 Armoured (heavy), which Volvo says is built to withstand armour-piercing rounds and explosive charges deployed beneath the floor or on the vehicle's roof. The special SUV will cater

Volvo has spent decades building a reputation based on having the latest and best safety equipment. The automaker is working to move that reputation forward another step by adding automatic steering to the big list of accident avoidance features in the new 2018 Volvo XC60 SUV. According to Volvo, adding their automatic braking to cars in Swede

Volvo has just unveiled the all-new V90 Cross Country. The new crossover wagon fills the gap between the V90 and the XC90 in the Volvo lineup. The Cross Country takes the striking V90 wagon body and adds fender flares and lower body cladding, an increased ride height, and optimizes the chassis for more severe road conditions. Volvo insists tha