BMW and Volvo will leave Americans without wagons

   Company BMW and Volvo have decided to abandon the sale of the North American market models with the wagon. Instead, both the producer are going to focus on promoting crossovers.

   At Volvo V70 wagon has already wiped out from his own line of the 2011 model year due to the fact that over the past six years, the demand for this model has fallen more than five times. If in 2004 the U.S. sold more

Volvo V70 - five stars from ADAC

   Swedish companies still have much to boast about, this time the notorious club ADAC awarded engine V70 DRIVe five stars, after the passage of the annual eco-test.
   Printer engine V70 DRIVe consume fuel in the 4.9 liter. 100 km, emitting 129 g / km of CO2. "In various tests, Volvo V70 showed the lowest performance impact on the environment in its class.And the tests were over a thousand cars of different brands, in addition to Volvo V70 similar characteristics have been registered in two cars, but they are hybrids, so the first car with a V70 internal combustion engine has received such recognition. Tests were given in the real world operation of vehicles.

   However, this is not the first prize for Volvo from ADAC. Back in February, the organization noted automotive active safety systems at Volvo XC60, which in case of danger or probability of a collision itself begins braking.
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The Chinese company bought a Volvo for 1.8 billion dollars

   The Chinese company Geely officially announced the acquisition of the Swedish Volvo brand for 1.8 billion dollars, reports AFP.

   The deal was made at the headquarters of Volvo in Sweden. Volvo spokesman Per Aake Freberg (Per-Aake Froeberg) also confirmed the information held about selling the brand.

   Since 1999, the right to the automotive Volvo belonged to the American Ford, who acquired a Swedish brand for 6,4 billion dollars. Recently, due to the global

Top-10 useful automobile gadgets

   The attractiveness of modern cars is largely determined by their "stuffing", so they are equipped with more powerful electronic devices. However, some never or almost never used by the masters, and some totally useless. Fortunately, useful gadgets much more - great news for car owners. Rate this list, in which there is habitual, and quite exceptional device.