The Slovenian Car of the Year 2017 also became the European Car of the Year 2017. This happened for the second time in a row. Check out who beat the Alfa Romeo Giulia in the photo finish and succeeded the Opel Astra on the throne.
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All the best Euro NCAP! You may be wondering why there is so much excitement over the fact that the car safety testing organization Euro NCAP is celebrating 20 years. It is to a large extent responsible for the fact that our cars are so safe today, as it drives car brands to try to do even more in the field of safety. Euro NCAP is a kind of our guardian angel on the roads and, as it boasts, it has saved more than 78 thousand lives since 1997. Are you interested in car safety 20 years ago and today? Then be sure to watch the video comparing the crash safety of a car of the latest date and a car from the late 1990s.
The results of the first tests of the Euro NCAP organization in 2017 are known. At the beginning of the year, two Volvos were tested, which proved themselves extremely well. The Volvo S90 and Volvo V90 were named among the safest cars in the history of Euro NCAP tests.
Volvo continues with a series of attractive advertisements in which it demonstrates its products. The Live Test series was started by Jean-Claude Vam Damme with a twine between two trucks three years ago, and from the Croatian highlands comes a new video that will make your skin crawl. This time, a Volvo FH truck pulls a paraglider up a mountain pass behind it and, among other things, takes him under a viaduct.
Volvo is designing a bus for 300 passengers. The Volvo Gran Artic 300 is a 30-meter articulated bus that the Swedes presented at the Fetrans Exhibition in Rio de Janeiro. It is almost twice as long as the Ljubljana rags!
Volvo has introduced a concierge service, which means that you will no longer have to go to gas stations, service stations and car washes in the future. Others will do it for you. It will be tested on 300 XC90 and S90 owners. With the service, which will be part of the Volvo On Call mobile platform, Volvo wants to make the life of car owners easier.
Startup company Otto recently set a new milestone in the field of transportation. A Volvo truck equipped with autonomous driving technology successfully completed the first commercial autonomous delivery in the history of transportation after the truck successfully delivered 50,000 cans of Budweiser beer to its destination, covering 193 kilometers without any complications.
What are the most reliable car brands of 2016? Cars break down, don't they? It does, but some much less than others. The renowned American market research institute JD Power has published the results of a survey on the reliability of car brands. And which are the most reliable? Volvo, Toyota, Mazda, Mercedes, maybe Renault? The result will surprise you!
The year 2016 brings a lot of innovations in all car classes. The work, family, business and sports categories will strengthen their ranks, and there is also an ecological Porsche and a courier for the 21st century.
The Volvo V90 Cross Country is coming. Volvo's 90 family is expanding again. After the Swedish brand, now owned by the Chinese Geely, revealed the station wagon derivative of the V90 model in February, it has now presented a version for the hills – the Volvo V90 Cross Country, which differs from the station wagon in terms of a larger clearance of the body from the road and protective elements. The new Volvo is a combination of elegance and off-road ability.
Ride-sharing provider Uber will soon start transporting its customers with self-driving cars. In fact, it has included customized Volvo XC90 models in its fleet, which will receive the first customers before September. It is the first commercial attempt to use fully autonomous vehicles and this type of technology. And while Uber will already transport customers around the world without a driver, we are still waiting for its arrival in Slovenia. How much longer? Uber assures that it has us "on the fly".
Volvo's truck development department is not kidding! Well, sometimes a little bit. Do you remember the famous Jean-Claude Van Damme action hero string between two of their trucks? Or when they let a kid play with their truck like it was a remote control toy? Now they want to break two speed records with the powerful Volvo Iron Knight truck. We will find out whether they will succeed on August 24, 2016!