Today, we can easily see a huge demand of new and used Volvo cars including station wagons, sedan, sport utility vehicles, coupes and compact executive sedans. The largest market for Volvo sales is China, United states, Belgium and Sweden as by 2011 Volvo sold more almost 449,225 cars worldwide apart from the used cars.
Diversified Range of Volvo Cars
The concept cars and the current models are demanded heavily as the vehicles are constructed according to the customer’s driving requirement. Some of the significant Volvo car’s models include Volvo V40, Volvo P3 Platform, Volvo Xc90 Classic, Volvo S60 Cross country, Volvo XC70, Volvo S90, Volvo V90, Volvo Margarete Rose, Volvo Tundra, VESC, S60 Concept, Volvo Concept Coupe 2014, Your Concept Car (YCC) and Volvo XC90. Additionally, Volvo introduced a wide range of eco-friendly cars to eliminate the negative impact of fuel on environment. For this purpose, Volvo has flexible-fuel vehicles, Plug-in hybrid, electric car, Drive-E engine and Gas-turbine hybrid.
Performance and Transmission
The human resource and technological integration works collaboratively within the production plants of Volvo to bring the component, strong and desired models. The car’s performance is one of the core pillar on which high sales is recorded, therefore, the professional engineers incorporated more powerful engine such as 5 cylinder V6 engine, B20 – 1.8 liter to 2.0 liter OHV engine, DOHC 16 valve engines and 2.8 L SOHC 12V engines. The high automatic and manual transmission is the other factor to enhance the driving performance of Volvo cars. Some of the prominent drivetrain are Aw55-50/51, AWTF-80 SC, Borg-Warner 55 automatic transmission and in manual the more well-known are IB5, Volvo 92 and MPS6 transmission.
Technological Specification
In safety and protection features the Volvo cars come with Tyre Pressure Monitoring system (TPMS), Volvo Full-LED Active beam, emergency Brake light (EBL), Warning triangle, Electronic stability control, power parking brake, Road sign information, child safety seats, rear collision warning, Run-off road protection, adaptive cruise control and many more. Though the other salient technological accessories includes XC90’s intuitive driver control, iPad holder, Sensus navigation, excellent configure settings, driving assistance solution, Whiplash Protection System (WHIPS), Cross Traffic Alert (CTA), Blind Spot Information System (BLIS), Speed limiter, Road Sign Information (RSI) and Roll Stability Control.