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  • Volvo’s Latest Plan for World Domination: Green Ideas or Greedy Desires?

    Volvo CarsVolvo Cars, the premium car maker has announced that the whole brand chases a new goal. This time the achievement is to sell up to one million electric vehicles by 2025. We still don’t know that much about Volvo’s intentions, but what we do know is that part of the plan is to offer at least two hybrid versions of every single model in its whole vehicle lineup and releasing its first all-electric car by 2019. Impressive.

    In fact, Volvo Cars has been passionately working on all kinds of eco-friendly vehicles and system, along with creating safer and safer cars for the last few years. As we have told you, the Swedish manufacturer recently showcased two all-new vehicle architectures, the Scalable Product Architecture (SPA) and the Compact Modulator Architecture (CMA) and also announced its ambitious plan to reduce car crash injuries and deaths to zero by 2020.

    SEE ALSO: Volvo Releases the Swedish Beasts: 2017 V90 and S90 Are Available For Order 

    The large 90 series, along with the 60 series will be built on SPA and Volvo intends to launch a global lineup of the smaller 40 series, based on CMA. And of course, all of these vehicles will be electrified in order to achieve the big goal.

    Fun thing is that this new brand commitment has been named “omtanke” that in Swedish means “consideration” and “caring”.

    It looks as Volvo team is definitely dedicated and passionate about delivering such eco-friendly and safe vehicles. So, what do you think about this campaign? Is the Swedish manufacturer going to deliver us what is promised, or is it all just a big advertising campaign?

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    Source: Volvo Cars 

  • Volvo Brand is About to Unveil the Time Machine Concept Car

    Volvo Time Machine ConceptVolvo Cars plans to announce the concept of “Time Machine” on November 18, 2015 at the Los Angeles Auto Show. This machine will be compatitble with brand’s latest technology of Scalable Product Architecture (SPA) that will be part of the standard equipment for the 2016 Volvo XC90 and numerous future brand models.

    Furthermore, the concept has been tweaked and restyled over the past several years at the Volvo Monitoring and Concept Center in Camarillo, California. The team has widely searched for a proper “time” concept and it looks like they have finally found it. The machine will feature next-gen hardware and software tweaks, all result of intensive and profound research on the future of automobile world.

    SEE ALSO: Volvo Cars Makes Further Steps in Developing Efficient Electric Engines

    Furthermore, Volvo will show a total of 14 new models over the next three years which are based on the recently created Scalable Product Architecture and Compact Modular Architecture. All these vehicles and the incorporated technologies will adapt more easily to individual, market and societal situations and needs. And as you might already know, Volvo brand has already showed three distinctive concept vehicles and different variations to the SPA technology based on XC90 earlier this year.

    It looks like Volvo team stays strongly motivated to bring numerous and distinctive new models, contemporary solutions and next-gen technologies. And it seems that the brand confidently walks towards the target to reduce death and injuries, caused by car accidents to 0%.

    Source: Volvo

  • Volvo Made a Step Forward to Brand’s Ultimate Goal

    2016 Volvo XC90 ExcellenceVolvo Cars will extend its range of compact vehicles with new segments of the so-called Compact Modular Arhitecture (CMA). It is expected to be equally or even more advanced than the Scalable Product Architecture (SPA) and it is also expected that the first car on CMA will be launched in 2017.

    In fact, the simultaneous development of SPA and CMA is vital for Volvo’s product renewal and growth strategy that further involves replacement of every vehicle in the lineup within the next four years and annuals sales volume of 800,000 automobiles. This process started with the launch of the XC90 and will continue with the demonstration of the latest S90 premium sedan vehicle.

    SEE ALSO: Volvo XC90 Scored Incredible Results at the 2015 Euro NCAP Tests

    Also, CMA will allow the brand to offer customers the quality of a premium engineering and expanded list of benefits. The technology of SPA and CMA will include engine improvements, enhanced safety systems and generally will try to achieve the ultimate goal: no deaths or injuries in Volvo automobiles by 2020. Impressive. But could the not-so-possible thing be really achieved?

    Volvo CMA technology

    The CMA technology will generally change and Volvo’s future products by extending the range of vehicles, powertrains, electrical systems and hi-tech units. CMA is designed to embrace the electric energy and the Twin Engine plug-in hybrid proves it.

    Volvo experts will also increase the global volume of CMA-based vehicles which will also lead to global footprint by the Swedish manufacturer. Or at least it is expected to do so.

    Volvo CMA technology

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    2016 Volvo S60L Hybrid
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    Source: Volvo

     

  • 1 000 KM of Spa-Francochamps

    The 2011 Le Mans 24 Hours is the biggest upcoming motor sport event. That’s why Team Peugeot Total had a test day held on 24th April, which is crucial to acquire important data necessary to ensure it arrives at Le Mans with the best possible car set-up.

    There will be three Peugeot 908s with totally nine drivers, who have two targets. The first one is to prepare for Le Mans without taking any risks and the second is picking up ILMC points.

    “The ILMC season got underway with a podium spot at Sebring, after an intense 12-hour race. The conditions were perfect to prepare for our main target of the year, the 24 Hours of Le Mans. Since then, the cars have had a lot of track time in private testing. The test day really got us into the mood at Le Mans; competing in this race at Spa-Francorchamps is the best way of checking that our racing reflexes are well and truly in place. The entire team will be at the event. We will be working in the same conditions that we’ll have in Le Mans. The ILMC is an important goal for us; however, we are not going to go after the race win at any cost, just a few weeks away from Le Mans. Above all, we need to make it to the end of the 1,000 kilometres of Spa-Francorchamps with all three cars intact and collect as much information as we can during the race. If we manage that, Peugeot will undoubtedly come away with a serious haul of points.”, commented Olivier Quesnel, Peugeot Sport Director.

    Team Peugeot Total is unbeaten since 2007 and the great success came in 2010, when they recorded a one-two at the 1 000 kilometres of Spa-Francorchamps. The race was won by Sébastien Bourdais, Simon Pagenaud and Pedro Lamy, followed by Franck Montagny and Stéphane Sarrazin in second.

    This year, the official driver line-ups are identical to those of 2010:

    Peugeot 908 No.7 (blue rear-view mirrors):
    Anthony Davidson, Marc Gené and Alexander Wurz

    Peugeot 908 No.8 (white rear-view mirrors):
    Nicolas Minassian, Franck Montagny and Stéphane Sarrazin

    Peugeot 908 No.9 (red rear-view mirrors):
    Sébastien Bourdais, Pedro Lamy and Simon Pagenaud

    Check out the schedule for the event, below!

    Peugeot 908 prepares for Le Mans

    Peugeot 908 prepares for Le Mans
    Peugeot 908 prepares for Le Mans
    Peugeot 908 prepares for Le Mans
    Peugeot 908 prepares for Le Mans

    SCHEDULE FOR THE 1 000 KM OF SPA-FRANCORCHAMPS:

    Thursday 5 May 2011
    12.20pm – 1.20pm: Free practice
    2.45pm – 3.10pm: Press briefing at the Peugeot Sport hospitality area
    4.55pm – 5.55pm: Free practice

    Friday 6 May 2011
    11.50am – 12.50pm: Free practice
    4.20pm – 4.40pm: LMP1/LMP2 qualifying

    Saturday 7 May 2011
    9.55am – 10.15am: Warm up
    2pm – 8pm: 1,000 kilometres of Spa-Francorchamps

    ILMC STANDINGS BEFORE SPA:

    Manufacturers:
    1. Peugeot, 27 points
    2. Audi, 17 points

    Teams:
    1. Team Oreca Matmut, 15 points
    2. Team Peugeot Total, 12 points
    3. Audi Sport Team Joest, 9 points
    4. Rebellion Racing, 6 points

    Source: Peugeot