Volvo Car has abandoned its target of selling 1.2 million cars by 2025, confirms CEO Jim Rowan in an interview with Automotive News Europe. “The China market has changed dramatically in the last two or three years,” said Rowan. “The new car market there has diminished because there is now a big second-hand car market, which China never really had before”. This comes after the company slashed its 2024 full-year sales growth forecast by 3 percent. Volvo had initially forecast a 15% growth in retai

The Volvo EC40 and EX40 have been launched in Thailand, both with a special Black Edition variant. Prices and variants are: EC40 Ultra - Twin Motor: THB 2,790,000 (~RM 360k) EC40 Ultra - Single Motor: THB 2,090,000 (~RM 270k) EX40 Ultra - Twin Motor: THB 2,690,000 (~RM 347k) EX40 Ultra - Single Motor: THB 1,990,000 (~RM 257k) Black Edition EC40 Ultra - Twin Motor Black Edition: THB 2,490,000 (~RM 322k) EX40 Ultra - Twin Motor Black Edition: THB 2,390,000 (~RM 309k) Just to refresh, the XC40 Rech

Volvo Car Malaysia introduced its first dedicated body repair and paint service facilities through the launch of the Volvo Certified Damage Repair Centre (VCDR), and it's a service that's now available at Federal Auto Cars, Glenmarie. Nick Connor, Head of Volvo Cars APEC, was present with Charles Frump, Managing Director of Volvo Cars to officially launch VCDR. “We are very happy to be able to witness the milestones that Volvo Car Malaysia has achieved thus far,” said Nick Connor. “From the impl

Volvo’s first EV, and first CKD assembled EV in Malaysia Stellar power, range and efficiency Doesn’t drive as good as ‘ICE’ XC40 Bean counters, woke politicians and techno-soothsayers such as Elon Musk will all have you believe that your next car will be an EV. But, in the interest of saving the planet and breathing clean air in car-less superblocks filled with utopian coffee houses - does anyone care if EVs even put a smile on our faces? Is it even a criterion? Despite its imperfections, the XC

Most powerful EV in its class Available as ICE-only, PHEV, and EV Should you pick the EV variant? Hot off the launch of the Volvo XC40 Recharge EV, Volvo Car Malaysia had arranged a media test drive for it and we’re bringing you our first impression of the EV. Here’s a quick recap - the Volvo XC40 Recharge EV represents the company’s first all-electric model and the first EV to be locally-assembled (CKD) in Malaysia, going head-to-head against the also-recently-launched Mercedes-Benz EQA. Also r

Over the weekend, Volvo Cars Thailand has launched the new 2022 Volvo C40 Recharge pure electric coupe crossover in the Kingdom. The C40 Recharge is Volvo’s first model that is designed as a pure electric vehicle (EV) when it made its global debut in March 2021. In Thailand, the C40 Recharge is fully imported (CBU) from China, and prices for the fully-electric coupe crossover starts from THB 2.75 million (~RM 350,000). As this is Volvo’s first proper EV model, the C40 will only be sold online th