Volvo toughens up 40 series (May 04)
The compact premium segment has just got a bit tougher in Ireland, writes Brian Byrne, with the arrival of the new generation S40 and the V50 replacement for the V40.

60 SERIES

New S60 extends Volvo base (Oct 00) - Brian Byrne

Volvo puts frighteners on Germans (Nov 00) - Tony Conlon

Volvo and fun is no longer an oxymoron (Feb 01) - Brian Byrne

To use the words Volvo and fun together would once have constituted an oxymoron. To use Volvo and style together used to attract funny looks. To want a Volvo was to pigeonhole one very particularly in an unflattering and dull way. To equate Volvo with performance just didn’t happen unless you were lucky enough to know your ‘T’s. The foregoing is now redundant. full story

S60 a car to be seen in (Apr 01) - Gerry Boud

70 SERIES

Volvo show way again with new V70 estate (00) - Tony Conlon

80 SERIES

CROSS COUNTRY

Cross Country means never missing The Simpsons (Apr 01) - Eddie Cunningham

XC90

Volvo XC90 gives dealers grief (Apr 03) There aren't many car dealers don't want the advertising support of their distributors, writes Ray Bernard, but my local Volvo dealer really doesn't want people asking him for an XC90, the company's first SUV and already selling so well worldwide that there's a waiting list only exceeded by the creme de la competition, BMW's X5.

GENERAL

Volvo donates safety expertise to Thailand (Mar 03)
According to official figures, some 14,000 people are killed on Thailand's roads every year, writes Ray Bernard. Which is one reason why the Thailand Accident Research Centre (TARC) was inaugurated last month, by no less a personage than the King of Sweden, Carl Gustav.

Driving in winter snow (Jan 04) With severe and snowy weather forecast, writes Trish Whelan, Volvo is sharing some winter driving and car maintenance tips from its experience of harsh Scandinavian winters.