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The most famous European factory delivery program should arguably be the BMW European Delivery Program.

Actually many other European brands offer similar programs, which you can have your car delivered to Europe and drive your own car on your next European vacation if you wanted to. For Volvo, this is called “Overseas Delivery.”

If you opted for the program to buy a Volvo, the price you paid for the car also includes:

1. Two round-trip air tickets to Sweden;
2. One night of first-class hotel in Gothenburg;
3. Shipping of your Volvo back to your US local Volvo dealership

The Overseas Delivery pricing are also lower than the US MSRP, so taking the free air tickets, hotel s...

Three months ago, we have reported that Volvo will start to provide the long-wheelbase version of the S60 sedan (the S60L) to the US market in 2015. More importantly, the S60L will be assembled in Volvo’s Chengdu factory, in Sichuan Province, China, and exported to the US dealerships. This is a first time a major automobile brand in US market that are importing fully assembled passenger cars from China.

As the date is coming, we provide you some of the detailed live photos of the Volvo S60L...

For those who wanted to but missed the chance to order the 1927-unit limited production of the 2015 XC90 First Edition, here is a news that may probably make you feel better: Volvo has announced the R-Design trim for the 2015 XC90, which includes features that the limited-production First Edition won’t have.

New features for the XC90 R-Design trims include exclusive upgrades to both of the exterior and interior materials and styling. The R-Design trims are available for all powertrain selection (from T5 to T8 models).

For the exterior, R-Design trims has a redesigned grille, lower front spoiler, window in silk metal, R-­Design dual tailpipe surround, integrated bright ro...

When you are considering to buy a luxury-brand car, I bet most of you will not think Volvo has the same prestige image as the three German brands (Mercedes-Benz, BMW, Audi).

The reasons for this is quite complicated, but one of them is the fact that, Volvo does not has a “real” full-size sedan in its product line at this moment. There is an implicit rule in the industry that, a brand that does not has a full size large luxury sedan, cannot be considered to be a “real” luxury brand (of cause there is always exceptions like the Bugatti – but even it is considering a sedan model now, please read our previous report).

The largest sedan in Volvo’s product line is the S80...

We all know the redesigned 2015 Volvo XC90 will be in dealership’s showroom very soon. It is natural for us to think the current generation of XC90 will be discontinued.

Well, this is true for most of the markets in the world, but not the case for China market. Just like VW is still selling the B5, B6 together with the B7 Passat in China at this moment, Volvo is going for the same route for the retired XC90.

According to Volvo, it has planned to keep the current XC90 in China market for the next couple years. To distinguish the old XC90 from the new generation, it will be renamed to “XC Classic”.

The “new” XC Classic will be made in Volvo’s China factory, located in Daq...