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Volvo News Channel on YouTube:
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Volvo Cars Newsroom:
Volvo Cars of North America:
https://www.media.volvocars.com/us/enhanced/en-us
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Volvo Car Corporation Global Newsroom:
https://www.media.volvocars.com/global/enhanced/en-gb
/Home/Welcome.aspx


Additional Sources for Volvo News Stories and Press Releases:
Volvo Cars North America:
http://www.volvocars.com/us/footer/about/NewsAndEvents/
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Swedespeed:
http://www.swedespeed.com/index.html

Volvo Owner's Club (UK):
http://www.volvoclub.org.uk/press/index.shtml

Another source:
http://www.olympsoft.com/volvo/news.html


Volvo in the News:
http://www.volvocars.com/us/footer/about/NewsAndEvents/Pages/VolvoReviews.aspx

Volvo Auto Shows:
http://www.volvocars.com/us/footer/about/NewsAndEvents/Autoshows/Pages/Volvo_Autoshows.aspx

RSS News Feeds From Volvo Cars North America (VCNA) & Volvo Car Corporation (Global):


Swedespeed Forums:
The place to discuss Volvo News & Rumors
http://forums.swedespeed.com/zeroforum?id=1


Video and Podcast Interview with Doug Speck, President and CEO of Volvo North America on Autoline Detroit
  -10/9/2009 "Momma Mia" Show #1334 Video (~25 minutes)
   http://www.autolinedetroit.tv/show/1334?play

  -10/9/2009 "Extra" Video (~12 minutes):
   http://www.autolinedetroit.tv/show/1334/extra?play

  -Swedespeed topic:
   http://forums.swedespeed.com/zerothread?id=127325

Volvo Historical Print Archive:
http://www.volvoprints.com/

Vintage Volvo Print Ads:

Various:
http://createbrand.ru/zap/2311/




240s:
http://www.k-jet.org/documents/advertisements/     

http://oak.cats.ohiou.edu/~ridgely/ahhh2.htm



http://www.k-jet.org/documents/advertisements/

Volvo Commercials:
140:                                                                                                          
1988 740 (Japan?):

The Kind of Car Everyone is Trying to Build

Snow Race


 
XC90 (Australia):                                                                                        C70 (Song by Melpo Mene):

Bloody Volvo Driver

I Adore You

Red for Passion: Red in TV/PR Advertising from the 1950's +


More Volvo commercials/ads available on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=volvo+ad&search_type=&aq=f

Volvo In Architecture:
Volvo of Oak Park's solution to a space problem: A lighted glass tower!
http://www.automotoportal.com/article/volvo-of-oak-park-reveals-chicagos-first-glass-tower-of-cars

http://www.swedespeed.com/news/publish/Features/article_974.html

http://www.oakparkjournal.com/2006/2006-Volvo-OakPark-Night-celebration-Dec-14th.html



P1800 Re-Visited and Powered-Up:

Mattias Vöcks, the Swedish designer behind the
VÖX-Amazon hot rod, is setting his sites on re-imagining the P1800:
http://www.autoblog.com/2009/05/05/koenigsegg-engineer-building-modern-day-volvo-p1800/



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A Volvo Super Car?:
Volvo SC90, designed by Nouphone J. Bansasine during his summer 2007 internship at Volvo:
http://www.themotorreport.com.au/16860/volvo-sc90-concept-and-a-designer-to-keep-your-eye-on/

http://www.carbodydesign.com/archive/2009/01/12-volvo-sc90-concept/

http://www.autoblog.com/2009/01/15/forget-playing-it-safe-meet-the-volvo-sc90-concept/









Volvo in Art

 
Title: Tank Top (seen to the left)
By: Leinz - Art to Stimulate Thought
http://www.leinz.co.uk/
Featured with permission of artist

Artist's note:
“My fondest memory of our family Volvo was when my mum came home saying she had been involved in an accident with a large and very expensive business mans car. I'm sure you can guess which vehicle ended up worse - our car didn't have a mark on it whereas the other car was totaled”


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Title: A car for the handy (seen below)
Title in Swedish: En bil för den händige
By: Erik Johannson
http://www.alltelleringet.com/
Featured with permission of artist





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