Information about New Cars

Going green has been the trend for most businesses nowadays. Google has gone ahead and replaced its roofs and walls with solar panels so as to save on energy and help decrease the amount of hazardous gases in the atmosphere. And Volvo has joined in the green craze.

Volvo has joined and hopped in the bandwagon. What it did is that it has already created, manufactured, and sent in new automobile models that can be used utilizing substitute fuels that are not harmful to the environment. The brand has been healthy to actually create not only the calibre Volvo V70 parts for the market but it has also created green and environment friendly vehicles. In fact, at present Volvo has nine automobile models and three of these nine cars are already acquirable as bio ethanol powered vehicles. These three cars are the Volvo C30, S40, and the V50. All these three are marketed in Europe and use engines with four cylinders.

Magnus Jonsson is the senior vice president of Volvo Cars’ Research and Development team. On this, he does say, “We believe that Flexifuel has great potential for larger engine sizes and we are planning to expand our range of bio ethanol powered engines in the coming years.”

However, this is not where the green craze ends. You see, Volvo has also created a new concept automobile and they call it the Volvo XC60 concept vehicle. This concept automobile uses a powertrain that has the same six cylinders that the bio fuel using cars of the brand use. This powertrain is actually an in-line petrol engine which was already used by the Volvo S80 back when it came out in 2006. This very engine has got the capacity to actually give power to the concept automobile even if you place in E85, which is actually the term used for that fuel which is prefabricated up of 85 per cent bio ethanol and 15 per cent gasoline.

Combining the power of the E85 and the engine, they can then work up the Volvo XC60 concept automobile so much so that it can vroom up to 265 horsepower and some 251 pound feet of torque. In fact, Volvo states that they have been healthy to record the automobile to ascent from zero to sixty seconds in 8.2 seconds.

One of my close friends really does love concept cars. Not only because of their one-of-a-kind styles and one-of-a-kind features but because of the fact that these concept automobiles are produced only once in a lifetime and there are very rare cases when these become production vehicles. More often than not, concept automobiles continuously become concept automobiles and later on museum displays.

Making its rounds in the auto industry is the rumor of a new automobile from Volvo that is cooler than the cool air the Volvo cooling system parts can produce. What is cool about this new concept automobile is not how it looks like but actually because of its environmentally friendly feature. Volvo calls the new concept automobile the Volvo XC60 and it has been stated that it is combination of a coupe and a sports utility vehicle.

The automobile comes with a bio ethanol engine with six cylinders. Volvo states that this engine has the capacity and ability to cut down on emissions of fossil carbon dioxide not only by some twenty or fifty per cent but actually of a whooping eighty per cent. In fact, the company does state that with the Volvo XC60, you not only get a innocuous ride (which is a trademark of the company) but you also do get a automobile that does not add up to Mom Nature’s problems.

City Safe. This is what Volvo describes the Volvo XC60 concept vehicle. It has got an active collision rejection system which has been specially engineered and designed so as to lessen or even absolutely refrain alteration from low speed rear impacts. What happens is that when the Volvo XC60 is following a automobile which suddenly brakes, the City Safety feature is the one that senses that a collision is imminent. What this one would do would be to actually pre charge the brakes of the automobile so as to refrain any kind of accident. The City Safe feature can also make the automobile brake automatically if it senses any happening happening.

If the company does continue on with its plans on making the Volvo XC60 as a production vehicle, you should anticipate the automobile to come to the nearest showrooms in your area in the year 2009.