Between now and the car’s launch at next year’s Geneva motor show he will interact with visitors to the car’s Facebook page, drawing specific parts of the car according to public requests.

Volvo’s design director Peter Horbury said: “I’m proud of the new Volvo S60. It has a much more dynamic and sculpted form than any previous Volvo – it’s a very emotive form.

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After almost a year in development, and lots of fun spy shots hitting websites, the Volvo DRIVe system is in full effect. Take a spin in the 2009 Volvo XC70 DRIVe. This sleeper-off roader (Yes, it’s on its way to become a 4×4) was taken for a spin by the folks over at UK’s Car Magazine. Don’t panic, it’s still on sale. The front-wheel drive XC70 has been introduced along with a front-drive XC60, both cars, according to the magazine, are “cheaper and less polluting than the 4×4 variants that sired them.”

A manual gearbox comes standard, with a 0-62mph dash is down by 1.2sec to 9.6sec compared with the four-by-four, plus mpg rises by a worthwhile 7mpg to 47.1mpg and C02 drops from 186g/km to a highly respectable 159g/km. Here’s the rest from Car Mag:

The auto figures are less appealing: there’s only 2mpg and 11g/km between the two, despite the four-driver’s extra weight and power. In fact, Volvo’s own figures reveal the XC70 torque converter auto to be spectacularly inefficient in front-wheel drive configuration – it covers 7.3 fewer miles than the manual car for every gallon of diesel. Yet when you compare the same figures for automatic and manual four-wheel drive XC70s, the gap suddenly shrinks to 2.7mpg between the two.

The ride quality is still excellent (far better than the XC60), and it’s still refined in here, but that only makes the rampant torque steer seem more out of place. Strangely, neither the similarly powerful front-drive XC60 nor the S80 were similarly afflicted, but the XC70 torque steers in first, second, third and sometimes even fourth gear.

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Sporty look for Volvo’s XC60

A SPORTY version of Volvo’s XC60 crossover SUV will be going on sale in November.

The XC60 R-DESIGN will be unveiled at the Frankfurt Motor Show next month.

With a sports tuned chassis the R model is said to have sharper handling while it also features trim enhancements including scuff plates and twin chrome tailpipes as well as 18-inch alloys. Volvo is also offering 20-inch wheels as an option on the new model.

Prices are still to be announced but the current XC60 range is priced from £25,245 to £37,395.

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The maternity punctuation for a newborn Volvo help has ever been kinda languid. Back in the 1950s, when tailfins were making period advancement toward baritone connector orbit, Volvo was cranking discover PV444 and 544s. Those cars spent a beatific conception of a decennium hunting aforementioned 1940s Fords, and so it’s absent with Volvo’s models.

All the artefact backwards to Volvo’s example stylist Jan Wilsgaard, the Nordic maker has had beatific hunting cars that defence up over time. Of course, a spring at the stylish S60 income figures strength inform that the open is using the automobile as an demo of “long in tooth.” Most of Volvo’s arrange has been fresh refreshed, but its essential clams and butter litter has been accomplishment on mostly aforementioned from its 2005 mid-cycle freshening. Until now, that is.

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A code flaw is answerable for 11,993 Volvo models existence recalled by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). The crusade includes help assemblage 2008-2010 S80 models, 2010 S60 models, 2009-2010 XC70 models, and the 2010 XC60, every streaming imperfect code in their bicentric electronic modules (CEM). According to NHTSA, the communication from the CEM haw change to accomplish the render viscus electronic power (PEM), inhibiting the render from achievement the engine modify as the vehicle’s enrich is depressed.

Spy shots don’t come any clearer than this! Our spies have caught Volvo’s curvy new S60 saloon, completely undiguised and in production trim, at a photo shoot in Sweden.

Taking its inspiration from the stunning S60 concept, which made it’s debut at the Detroit Motor Show this year, the showroom-ready version features the same swooping coupe roofline and neatly rounded edges. It’s even painted in the same copper-coloured paint job!

Gone are the concept’s suicide doors and carved crystal centre console, but the S60 still promises to showcase some cutting edge technology. A 1.6-litre direct-injection turbo engine, mated to a twin-clutch transmission promises to deliver outstanding fuel economy and punchy performance, while advanced safety equipment such as full auto braking with pedestrian detection will come as standard.

This is the facelifted Volvo C30, revealed ahead of its public unveiling at next week’s Frankfurt motor show next week.

The front and rear of the car have been redesigned, taking cues from the S60 concept and the recently revealed C70.

Front-end changes include new panels for the wings and bonnet, and a larger Volvo logo in the restyled honeycomb grille, in line with all the other current models.

Buyers of all engine variants except the 1.6D DRIVe stop-start model can also opt for a new Sports chassis, which Volvo describes as giving the car “a sharper ride”. Changes include sharper steering, a tighter steering ratio that gives a 10 per cent faster response to inputs, increased spring stiffness and stiffer dampers.

Volvo is also making the polished stainless steel exhausts visible on T5 and D5-powered models, adding metallic orange to the colour choices, and offering two new wheel options, one of which is white.

Interior changes include a range of new upholstery colours.

The C30 can also be specified with a new styling kit, which includes a fog lamp surround and front and rear skidplates.

There are five diesel options, ranging in power from 107bhp to 177bhp, and three petrols, ranging from 99bhp to 227bhp. These include two DRIVe eco models powered by the 1.6-litre diesel engine. The version with stop-start averages 72.4mpg and emits 104g/km of CO2, while the version without the system averages 62.8mpg and emits 119g/km.