VOLVO
5th October 2013
PetrolBlog is let loose with the Volvo S60 T6 Polestar, a 329hp, all-wheel drive firecracker of a saloon car that's let down by a dodgy transmission.
4th June 2013
Smell like fish and chips! It's 30 years since Volvo unveiled the futuristic and super-lightweight Volvo LCP2000 concept car. Three decades on - we still want one.
1st June 2013
Pinch and a punch, first day of the month. It's the PetrolBlog Weekend Supplement, featuring Goodwood, a tip-top Veyron replica, a look back at 1983, a Le Car and a Volvo 240.
30th May 2013
PetrolBlog reviews the ultra-expensive Volvo V60 Plug-in Hybrid and discovers it's a car with very few flaws. Just as long as you can afford the price tag.
26th April 2013
PetrolBlog reviews the Volvo V40 D2 Cross Country SE by taking it on a long distance road test cross country up and down the A470 in Wales.
18th February 2013
PetrolBlog tests a few of the new Volvo V40 R-Design and Cross Country models and wonders if it's a classic case of less is more from the new Swede.
19th September 2012
PetrolBlog takes a Rebel Blue Volvo XC60 D5 R-Design Polestar to beautiful Welsh Wales. Here's some waffle on how it performed.
12th July 2012
PetrolBlog reviews the brand new Volvo V40 and believes that it might just be the best premium 5-door hatchback on sale.
12th April 2012
Would you get up at 4.30am to drive a Volvo estate? PetrolBlog would, especially when it's the V60 T6 Polestar. Read 'moor' here...
9th August 2011
PetrolBlog has a brief encounter with the insane Volvo V60 T6 Polestar and thinks it could be a hark back to 1994.
28th July 2011
A sailor, or someone actively involved with sailing, is seven times more likely to buy a Volvo than the average man in the street. Wow.
14th July 2011
PetrolBlog spends a week with the S60 DRIVe, Volvo's environmentally and economically conscious saloon car. No road tax in the first year is an initial attraction, but can it deliver on the claimed 65.7mpg figure?