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Showing posts with label Volvo. Show all posts

Volvo S60

The Volvo S60 is a sports car produced by the Swedish automaker Volvo from 2000. Two ancestors of the auto accept been produced to date.

The S60 apparent a apple-pie breach for Volvo from the boxlike architecture that abounding associated the cast with in the 1980s and 90s. Its design, done by a architecture aggregation led by Peter Horbury, congenital aloft the administration of the S80 and was the best apparent abandonment from acceptable Volvo administration back Horbury abutting the close in 1992. Accordingly, Volvo marketed the car as heralding a “Revolvolution.”

The S60 was congenital aloft Volvo’s P2 platform, which was aggregate with added Volvo models like the S80, V70, XC70 and assuredly the XC90.

The S60 was active in 2005. The exoteric was adapted with body-colored ancillary moldings and bumpers, as able-bodied as fresh headlamps. The autogenous accustomed some updates as well, with fresh seats, trim, and an adapted centermost console. The Four-C anatomy from the S60 R became an advantage on some S60s. The T5 agent was additionally reengineered from 2.3 to 2.5 litres and accustomed an access of 10 bhp (7 kW; 10 PS).

Volvo P1800

The Volvo P1800 is a sports car from Volvo Cars.

The activity was started in 1957 because Volvo capital a sports car, admitting the actuality that their antecedent attempt, the P1900, had been a disaster, with alone 68 cars sold. The man abaft the activity was an engineering adviser to Volvo, Helmer Petterson, who in the 1940s was amenable for the Volvo PV444. The architecture assignment was done by Helmer's son Pelle Petterson, who formed at Pietro Frua at that time. Volvo insisted it was an Italian architecture by Frua and alone clearly accustomed that Pelle Petterson advised it in 2009.

Volvo C70

The Volvo C70 is a affluence sports car made by Volvo Cars in two generations: the aboriginal from archetypal years 1997-2002 as coupé and from 1999-2006 as a softtop convertible[1]. The additional bearing C70 has been marketed back 2006 as a retractable auto convertible.

Volvo C30

The Volvo C30 is a bunched sports car produced by Volvo Cars. The C30 is a three-door, four-seat auto powered by straight-4 and straight-5 engines. The car is a auto adjustment of the S40/V50/C70 range, and uses the aforementioned Ford C1 (or Volvo P1) platform. It is actuality marketed as a exceptional auto or a sports auto distinctively advised for first-time Volvo buyers and the adolescence market. Assembly is accepted to be 65,000 units a year, 75% for auction in the European market. The assembly car was clearly apparent at the 2006 Paris Motor Show.

The exoteric architecture of the C30 is based on the 2001 SCC abstraction car, which was aggressive by the 1800ES, the acreage adjustment of the P1800 Coupe. It additionally shares abounding architecture cues with the Volvo 480, decidedly the 'sportback' anatomy appearance and bottle tailgate. According to Simon Lamarre, arch flat designer, "the 1800ES has become one of the icons for Volvo," alarming the architecture of the Volvo C30. The autogenous architecture is agnate to the S40 and V50; the majority of genitalia including the apparatus panel, 'floating' centre assemblage and council caster are aggregate by the three cars.