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Volvo Car UK has announced a new partnership with Fearne Cotton, one of the UK’s best-known broadcasters and founder of the multi-faceted wellbeing brand, Happy Place. Fearne’s Happy Place platform, embracing a podcast, books and festivals, connects thought-leaders from around the world to inspire and empower self-love and happiness. United …

Polestar has announced that the world premiere of its next car, the Polestar 3 electric performance SUV, will be in October 2022. The vehicle will be the Swedish electric performance car company’s first SUV and will join the existing Polestar 2 five-door fastback in the line-up. Polestar 3 will feature …

The handsome Volvo V60 estate was arguably my Car of the Year back in 2018. As I said in my review: “Obviously it’s not special in a supercar kind of way – it’s just that it does everything it’s meant to do exceptionally well.” Volvo didn’t rest on its laurels …

Volvo is doing its bit to save the planet, and it has an ambitious plan for a zero emissions future. By 2025, 50% of its global sales will consist of fully electric cars. By 2030, it aims to sell only EVs before turning “climate neutral” 10 years later. The Swedish …

Volvo has started to implement a new 112mph speed cap on all its new cars, underlining the Swedish manufacturer’s position as a global leader in road safety. As well as the speed cap, every Volvo car will now also come with a Care Key, which allows Volvo drivers to set …

Reigning Olympic Triathlon champion Alistair Brownlee and his brother Jonny have signed up with Volvo Car UK as brand ambassadors. Hailing from Yorkshire, the pair are the only British brothers ever to finish first and second in an individual event at the Olympic Games. Alistair is one of the most …

Lexus has been named best car maker for the fourth year running in the annual Driver Power ownership survey, published exclusively in Auto Express. Owners said that no other manufacturer builds more reliable cars, or cars that are built better, than Lexus. And not only do the firm’s customers love …

Volvo is on a roll and the all-new S60 is further proof. Completing the current award-winning range of SUVs, saloons and estates, it’s another winner from the Chinese-owned Swedish brand. The remarkable thing about the S60 is that it’s not simply a saloon version of the V60 estate launched in …

The Volvo XC40 has grabbed another ‘Car of the Year’ award, adding an Honest John trophy to its European and Japanese titles. Billed as the “most honest and unbiased awards in the industry”, the overall winner of the Honest John Awards is the car that has proved the most popular …

Volvo’s smallest SUV made the biggest impact when it was unveiled in late 2017. Critically acclaimed, it picked up several awards including the prestigious European Car of the Year title. We were hugely impressed when we road-tested the XC40 in early 2018, but we only got to try the 188bhp …