Building on Volvo Car Corporation's and Volvo Technology's already existing safety systems - including features such as cameras, radar and laser sensors - the vehicles monitor the lead vehicle and also other vehicles in their immediate vicinity.
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The list of winners includes some big global brand names, such as Sweden's Volvo , which makes heavy trucks--Volvo's auto business was sold to Ford Motor (nyse: F - news - people ) in 1999--and gained 68%.
Volvo had a record year last year, selling 136, 000 vehicles, but the brand's success was almost completely attributable to the XC-90 , Volvo's first SUV, which debuted in the fourth quarter of 2002.
John Berg , president of EURO RSCG , the agency that created Volvo's campaign, thinks so.
The new technology responds to demand from drivers for consumption of music on the road, combined with Volvo's core safety value.
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Instead, Volvo's sales will probably rise more slowly to 650, 000 cars per year by then, from about 400, 000 currently, IHS Automotive forecasts.
If the deal is done, Volvo's new owner will be a consortium led by Zhejiang Geely Holding Group, a privately held firm.
Last year Ford brought Peter Horbury, who had earlier reinvigorated Volvo's look, to the U.S. to spiff up Ford, Lincoln and Mercury designs.
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Now it seems that there will be "trickle-up" instead: Volvo's sharp design, excellent safety engineering and strong build quality will influence everything Ford does.
Using a single material for two functions has great potential for carmakers, says Per-Ivar Sellergren, a senior engineer at Volvo's Material Laboratory in Gothenburg.
And it was a wonderful way to mark the end of Volvo's sponsorship of this event, which they have admirably supported over the years.
Geely bought Volvo from Ford, and can now combine its own Chinese market access and strong supply chain with Volvo's technology and image-making savvy.
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The analysts are not convinced that Volvo's strategy will do enough to ensure it reaches its goal of selling 800, 000 cars per year by 2020.
Volvo's integration with Spotify is both voice activated and touch enabled.
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Take Volvo's reputation for safety, perhaps its most powerful unique selling point in the West for years, which is now winning over new customers in Asia.
And Volvo's V60, which the company says is the world's first diesel-electric plug-in hybrid in production, offers a package of solutions to such drivers, he insists.
Volvo's not officially for sale yet, but Mulally has made clear that Ford lacks the money and management talent to keep investing in the premium Swedish brand.
Volvo's new V40 hatchback essentially drives itself in heavy traffic.
Much of this comes down to the notion of the family, which in China - perhaps more than in some of Volvo's traditional markets - is considered hugely important.
The main technology underpinning Volvo's autonomous automobiles is wireless internet, which would enable each car to be assigned a certain point on the road and give different vehicles the ability to interact with each other.
Volvo's U.S. manager of product safety and compliance, Adam Kopstein, says his company's engineers began doing tests to simulate small-overlap crashes in the 1980s after analyzing data collected from car accidents in Sweden and other countries.
Rumours abound that Fisker could soon be sold, possibly to the Chinese carmaker Dongfeng Motor or to Zhejiang Geely, which owns Sweden's Volvo Cars.
Montgomerie had to finish in at least fifth place at this week's Volvo PGA Championship to qualify automatically by being in the top 50 in the world.
His place in the Johnnie Walker Championship has been taken by Welshman Sion Bebb, who will play with Colin Montgomerie and last year's Volvo PGA champion Scott Drummond.
Also at the auto show, global automakers including Mercedes Benz and Nissan and local brands such as Geely Holding Group, which owns Sweden's Volvo Cars, and Great Wall Motors Co. showed new SUVs or SUV concept vehicles.
Mulally's first step is to get rid of distractions like Aston Martin, Jaguar, Land Rover and Volvo (it's keeping its stake in Mazda) and throw the company's global resources behind the blue oval.
He repeated his appeal for information about sightings of Ms Gowing's Irish registered Renault Clio and Mr Sharp's black Volvo, particularly in the Sealand area, since 12 October.
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This is an awkward situation: DaimlerChrysler might well prefer to buy Volvo out (especially since trucks are Mitsubishi's strongest product), but Volvo has not yet indicated what it proposes to do.
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Mulally will now have the Europe chief, LewisBoothLewis Booth, who also will be in charge of Ford's luxury brands Volvo, Jaguar and Land Rover, report directly to him.
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