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Polestar was once an in-house performance and racing team for Volvo. Since 2017, it's now a standalone brand that does Green Aesop cars etched with the logo of two Citroën-like chevrons in a form of a four-pointed star.^note This attracted a trademark dispute from Citroën's DS Automobiles division, which banned Polestar from selling cars in France from 2021 until 2025 when the dispute was resolved in 2022.

Their first model is the Polestar 1, a plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV) 2-door sports car introduced at the Shanghai Auto Show on October 17, 2017, heavily based on the 2013 Volvo Concept Coupé. This new Swedish sports car comes with a hybrid powertrain, with a 2.0 L twincharged inline-4 ICE engine in the front and two electric motors in the rear, plus an ISG generator, totaling of 626 hp worth of power. Though developed and made in Sweden, the Polestar 1 was produced in Chengdu, China.

This hybrid sports car transitioned later on into producing fully-electric cars, starting with the Polestar 2, a battery electric-powered 5-door liftback that draws away from the predecessor's Early-Installment Weirdness. First unveiled at the 2019 Geneva Motor Show, it was made available to the public on March 2020, amidst the declaration of the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Polestar continues the trend of its Numerical Theme Naming for future models, in its chronological order as time progresses on.

• The star of Hidden Assets is the Polestar 2 with Performance Pack used by criminals to plot on a series of raids, drug smuggling and bombings around Antwerp, Belgium.
• So far, the only depiction of the Polestar 1 in fiction (obviously other than the one mentioned below) is in season 3 of The Morning Show driven by Cory Ellison.
• Nordic Noir show Wisting has police senior detective Nils Hammer continue the Green Aesop line when he now drives a white Polestar 2 as his new car for season 5.

• Polestar is unveiled in Gran Turismo 7, featuring the all-electric 2026 Polestar 5 Performance added in the Spec III update. The moment the major update is released, it has a Time Trial Challenge set in Brands Hatch Indy. GT World Series star Igor Fraga took a shot out of that Swedish Green Aesop sports sedan.
• The Polestar. We're talking about both the hero car and the cover car of Need for Speed Heat; the modified yellow 2020 Polestar 1, notable for its huge appendages like its absurdly giant wing. This car was owned by Joe during the cold opening prologue where you play as him as you try out A Taste of Power during an ongoing illegal street race downtown Palm City at night. It's quite a shame that Joe's fabled Polestar gets wasted when Officer Danny Shaw runs his car off the bridge and falls down into the ocean, prompting Shaw to question him where his "sweet-ass ride" is, though his superior Frank Mercer clarified that it was his fault for wasting it. Regardless, Joe's Polestar becomes Promoted to Playable in a post-launch update.
  • His car also returned in a Vol. 4 update of Need for Speed Unbound, but unlike in Heat and just like every NFS Legends car, it's locked under a paywall, requiring you to purchase the Vol. 4 Customs Pack or grab its Ultimate Collection.

The brick. Often seen in the hands of wealthy middle-class American families in suburbs.

The Volvo 200 series, usually under the 240 and 260 designation were the flagship models of mid-sized luxury cars introduced in the autumn of 1974 as a replacement to the 140 series and the 164, offered in a wide array of variations, like the 240, 242, 244, 245, 264 and 265. Regarding trim levels, they're coded with the following: L (Luxe), DL (de Luxe), GL (Grand Luxe), GLE (Grand Luxe Executive), GLT (Grand Luxe Touring) and GT (Grand Touring) Typically the 240 is available as a Giulia-like 2-door sedan, a 4-door sedan or a 5-door station wagon, whereas the 260 is locked as a 2-door coupé. Usually, it is ran on a Volvo Redblock inline-4 engine.

While production lasted for 2 decades, its successor was supposed to be the 00 series, introduced in 1982, but was instead a premium derivative of the 200 series due to the 240's popularity, thus overlapping its production with the 200s. Production discontinued in 1993 and was replaced by the Volvo 850.

Volvo 240s are very popular Scandinavian import tuners, primarily due to the success as a Group A touring car that competed at the European Touring Car Championship with the Volvo 240 Turbo.

• An IKEA Summer Sale commercial has the wife after buying all the goods yell "Start the car!" upon entering her husband's Volvo 240. The wife gets excited within the drive.
• A tourism commercial promoting Storebælt features Mads Mikkelsen and Nicolas Bro as football fans crossing the Great Belt Bridge with their white Volvo 240 coupé. Guest starring with either Flemming Østergaard or Jacob Haugaard.

• Tatsuji Chibiki, the librarian of Yomiyama North Middle School of Another drives a blue 1991 Volvo 240 GL wagon, as shown when he drives it during the trip to Yomiyama Shrine. This comes in handy when he drives Daisuke Wakui (who had an asthma attack) to a nearby hospital.
• A Volvo 240 is often to be a Mooks car to take hostage of in City Hunter. One example is in episode 33, where a Damsel in Distress gets abducted in a goons' Volvo, prompting a sweeper named Umibozu to intervene and use his Super-Strength to flip the Volvo upside down, whilst rescuing her. He ends it by shooting its gas cap.

• Jane Nichols, a bridesmaid for 27 weddings straight in 27 Dresses, yet alone she still drives an old 1986 Volvo 240.
• Trish Piedmont of The 40-Year-Old Virgin owns a Volvo 240 wagon, which at one point Andy Stitzer learns how to drive it.
• How Adam and Barbara Maitland became ghosts at the beginning of Beetlejuice (1988) is when they drive home in their yellow 1977 Volvo 245 DL. As they see a dog on the road, the veer away as the Volvo plunges off a bridge and into the river.
• In Bridge to Terabithia, a maroon 1990 Volvo 240 estate appears to be owned by Ms. Edmunds, Jess's music teacher, which she drives by the drive-way and lets Jess inside her car.
• Four rebellious teenage boys, who are members of a KISS tribute band in Detroit Rock City "borrow" Lex's mom's brown 1978 Volvo 244 sedan to get to the concert so they can see their idols on stage. This "Cool" Car sets up the story where the Volvo went missing whilst finding the KISS tickets.
• Fatal Attraction exhibits that old Volvo 240 estate driven by Michael Douglas's character, who is an attorney and a family man.
• Roosevelt's parents of Fun Size (2012) own a yellow 1986 Volvo 245 station wagon to dive Wren, Peng and April around. It has some serious bumper stickers, a lot of mechanical issues, and even mishaps at the drive-thru.
• One of the Mooks of Get Carter (2000) steals a Volvo 204 sedan in an attempt to escape from the titular protagonist, Carter, who is chasing after them in his older Cadillac sedan.
• In The Hand That Rocks the Cradle, decent woman who's trying to combat psycho woman drives a honey yellowish Volvo 240 estate.
• Fred O'Hare from Hop drives a 1992 Volvo 240 wagon. Well, that is when he was a Drunk Driver when he's first introduced and made his first encounter with E.B. when Fred accidentally ran him over. This would be the hop-around car for the drive around Los Angeles to find jobs for Fred.
• An old Volvo 240 is seen in the hands of Abe Lucas of Irrational Man. He doesn't mind drinking while driving.
• Not really the most wonderful time for Samantha in Just Friends (2005) when it comes to her crappy Volvo 240 saloon around for the holidays.
• This would be the car that wreaks havoc in Lemon Tree Passage, that being Geordie's 1979 Volvo 242 GT used for the vacation with his pal Oscar and three American backpackers to drive to one of those Urban Legends. This car would get into a lot of hell when it won't start when searching for Oscar. After going through the nightmare, his Volvo works perfectly fine.
• Mr. Brooks owns a 1990 Volvo 240 DL to go to work in sterile environments, and probably go on a secret spree as The Thumbprint Killer.
• One of the three "friends" who work in a pizza restaurant in Mystic Pizza falls in love with an academic man who drives a Volvo 245 station wagon.
• Matt Damon's rise to stardom with the The Rainmaker (1997) has him as Rudy Baylor, with his Volvo 244 which he uses to get around Memphis.
• Aunt May's choice of vehicle in Spider-Man: Homecoming is the Volvo 240, which perfectly encapsulates her character's practical and reliable nature.
• Both Kristen McKay and James Hoyt of The Strangers would arrive at James' family's vacation house in their 1986 Volvo 240 [244], which would get ransacked later on. They'd use it in an attempt to escape from intruders, only to be Car Fu'd by one of them.
• In Striptease, Erin Grant has her 1984 Volvo 242 DL, where she drives to work, taking her daughter Angela alongside her.
• The 240 plays a part as the car of the more upper classes of North American society of An Unmarried Woman.

• Volvos are quite the car in question of The Big Bang Theory. And as shown in the very first Pilot episode, Leonard Hofstadter drives Sheldon Cooper in his silver Volvo 240.
• A white 1990 Volvo 240 is what Walter White stole from Breaking Bad in order to return to Albuquerque from New Hampshire.
• Dr. Oliver Sacks's more practical vehicle in Brilliant Minds is an old white 1992 Volvo 240.
• Larry David, with Jeff and Susie try out a new invention in Curb Your Enthusiasm, using a powder blue Volvo 240 for their "car periscope" (the episode name) and drive it around New York City.
• The catalyst in starting off season 10 of ER when a woman passes out after her Volvo 240 gets wrecked by a truck, with her three children onboard. During the wreck, it erroneously turned into a Volvo 740, then back into a 240 again.
• A subtle of the Volvo 200 estates show prominence in Jonathan Creek, primarily the red 1985 Volvo 240 DL, the transport of Maddy Magellan.
• Appears as Seo Joo-won's Cool Car in Just Between Lovers since the show is primarily sponsored by Volvo.
• Lovejoy has his old Volvo 265 estate which was always breaking down.
• Idris Elba makes Volvo cooler in Luther when his character, DCI John Luther traded in his crappy Volvo 740 DL for an earlier model, the 240 GL, that at least runs much more feasible.
• Other than his iconic flashy purple Maserati, Oswald from The Penguin (2024) would also delve into something more practical with a Volvo 240 estate.
• Malik, J.D.'s not-so-Cool Car of Scrubs. It was his pride and joy through his many years, even through college until it caught on fire.
  J.D.: What kind of grown man names his car?
  Turk: You do.
  J.D.: But I've had Malik since I was 17.
• George Sibley's car for season 3 and 4 of Six Feet Under would be his 1986 Volvo 240 sedan.
• This Volvo 240 estate was used by Randy Hellman during "The California Split" of Sneaky Pete.
• A 1983 Volvo 240 was used by ex-mob-informant Fred Peters of The Sopranos to sneak up on Tony Soprano and kill him, though he decided to spare him.
• Dustin's mom from season 3 of Stranger Things gets a little more attention with her lovely yellow 1980 Volvo 244 sedan.
• Richard Hammond on Top Gear (UK) would organize a Ramp Jump where a Volvo 240 would jump over various caravans. The Volvo would successfully jump over two caravans before wrecking three of them while landing.
• Both D.I. Frost and D.S. Toolan of A Touch of Frost would mangle for a powder blue Volvo 240 estate as their personal cop car for their detective work.
• Despite Hazel and Cha-Cha from The Umbrella Academy (2019) having access to weapons and technology from any given time period, they instead are Cutting Corners by ending up riding around in a mid-80s powder blue Volvo 240 and staying in progressively cheaper motels.
• Jimmy Baxter’s son Your Honor would get entangled in a hit-and-run accident when scrubbed the family's Volvo 240 as evidence needed to back the case.

• "Eyes Closed" by Ed Sheeran starts off with him trapped underwater, inside his 1986 Volvo 240.
• Katy Perry is the Clingy Jealous Girl in "Part of Me", sitting inside her Volvo 240. After dumping her boyfriend Jason, she starts the song when she drives the Volvo to a Texaco gas station to cool things off.
• A Burnout Revenge song from We Are Scientists called "The Great Escape" has the trio share a bathroom, a shower, a breakfast bowl, and the driver's seat of the Volvo 240 when driving to work.

• In Art of Rally, a Volvo 240 Turbo Expy goes under the name "turbo brick'', as it is a Fan Nickname for tuned Volvo 240 models.
• Gudmund, a Swedish rally car with an impressive set of headlights and a laid-back personality in Cars: Mater-National Championship is a Volvo 240 draped in the colors of the Swedish flag.
• Forza: The 1983 Volvo 242 Turbo Evolution, introduced as a DLC for Forza Motorsport 3 before being a standard in selected subsequent games. The "Drift Club" Horizon Story of Forza Horizon 4 has you drive this Volvo sleeper.
• Win the European Hot Hatch Car Championship of Gran Turismo 4, instead gives you... a station wagon; that is the 1988 Volvo 240 GLT Estate. This gets a fully-detailed makeover in a May 2024 update of 7. This time, it uses the 1993 240 SE Estate. Since Volvos are Japanese models, this one however is authentically a European trim.
• The Vulcar Nebula Turbo in Grand Theft Auto Online takes appearance of the first-generation Volvo 242 2-door sedan.
• Probably a Lethal Joke Car in Need for Speed (2015) when you all have but a crappy Volvo 242 DL. It's one of the two cheapest cars in the roster, but fully tuning it and this midnight sleeper can even humiliate Robyn, Spike, Nakai-san or Ken Block in sportier cars. This eventually returned in Need for Speed Payback as an abandoned car, while it carries over normally in all its later games.
• The Alleged Car, as what the description states in The Sims 3 is the "Big Lemon", a Volvo 240 Expy with a Mercedes-Benz front fascia.
  The door doesn’t open unless you kick it three times. And the ignition is half missing, but starts right up if you cross these wires. This baby might be quirky, but it will get you where you need to go. Besides, there’s just something about that used car smell.
• A fictional European wagon of Wreckfest called the "Hammerhead" is inspired by the 1981 Volvo 240 Estate.

• Principal Seymour Skinner of The Simpsons appears to once own a brown 1979 Volvo 240, which got destroyed by Bart and Milhouse.
• This is Chef's personal car in South Park. A green woodie station wagon that looks like a 1981 Volvo 245 Estate with a "LUV CHEF" Vanity License Plate. During the unaired cut of "Cartman Gets an Anal Probe", Kyle thinks his car is a Chrysler Town & Country.

One of Volvo's most ambitious projects at the Turn of the Millennium whilst under Ford's guidance is to build a hatchback of their dreams. It's spectacular, it was only offered in one body shape.

From its 2001 Volvo Safety Concept Car (SCC) at the Detroit Motor Show which glimpses as a revolutionary 3-door hatchback made tailored for women as a fun-to-drive car and a storage for their purse, now become an evolution step-up for production. Introduced in 2006 at the Paris Motor Show, the SCC hatch now goes under the new name; the Volvo C30, marketed as a premium hatchback/sports "coupe".

Designed by Simon Lamarre, this hatchback-coupe is noted for its rear-styling, with Broad Strokes recalling from previous Volvo models, like the P1800 ES and the 480. Its interior however is similar as its brothers, the S40 and V50. Engine choices were flexible and versatile, ranging from various inline-4s/inline-5s offered naturally-aspirated or turbocharged, either in gasoline, diesel or both as a dual-fuel (flexifuel). A Product Facelift was introduced in 2009, taking its Retraux accents taking a Call-Back borrowed from the 1800ES, with sportier trim included, turning this hatchback into a hot hatch, with the C30 R-Design.

Production ended in 2013 and was succeeded by the resurrected larger 5-door Volvo V40 II.

The C30 makes a Swedish swoop at the Scandinavian Touring Car Championship (STCC) with Robert Dahlgren of Volvo Polestar dominating the 2010 season, winning both the driver's and team championship.

• Tommy's older sister Viki of Crazy on the Outside owns a red Volvo C30 when she drives it just to see her brother.
• Molly McCleish's sarcastic best friend Patty of She's Out of My League would show up in the climax, driving her red 2008 Volvo C30, when needing to chauffeur Molly to the Pittsburgh International Airport in an attempt to stop Kirk from boarding the plane.
• Call him a "stupid, shiny Volvo owner" all you want, as the teen vampire, Edward Cullen of The Twilight Saga fancies Volvos as his personal Cool Car given that Volvos are the novels' Product Placement. In the first film Twilight, he drives a then-new 2008 Volvo C30 T5 when he shows up to see Bella Swan on campus.
  • This differentiates from the novel, as he'd drive a Volvo S60 R.

• Volvo being the series' sponsor for Offspring, you have Nina Proudman driving a teal 2007 Volvo C30 throughout season 1.

• Its only fully detailed Volvo would be the 2009 C30 R-Design of Gran Turismo 5 and 6. That is until a 2024 update of 7 included 2 Volvo models (240 SE Estate and V40 T5 R-Design) to join the lineup. In-game description erroneously said the C30 utilizes an inline-4 engine.
• Forza: The franchise features the Polestar-tuned hatches with the 2009 Volvo C30 R-Design, making its only appearance in the last two Forza Motorsport games for the Xbox 360. It took 13 years to finally make a return for a 2024 update of Forza Horizon 5 with the new 2013 Volvo C30 Polestar.
• A DLC for Race Driver: GRID adds the STCC-spec Volvo C30 to compete with the other touring cars in Race Day.
• You can begin Real Racing 2 with the 2010 Volvo C30 R-Design as your starter car. Not only you get that C30, but also its Palette Swap, being the Olsbergs-sponsored STCC race car.

If this car comes in mind, many will think about Roger Moore from The Saint in which rocketed to pioneering icons. This here is 2+2, front-engine, rear-drive sports car built to be used on a regular basis, the Volvo P1800, pronounced eighteen-hundred, and built on a Volvo Amazon platform. This was the solution of the previous Volvo P1900 where all the problems are resolved.

This desired Swedish classic was introduced in 1961, designed by yacht desinger Pelle Petterson with guidance from Pietro Frua of carrozzeria Ghia, it was made to compete with American and other European sports cars where affordability is the main focus. Petterson's imagination of this Swedish swoop coupé is a low profiled beltline and a cab-rearward with a sloped rear windscreen. Rounded headlights were a thing at the time since those were the only ones approved.

It runs on a dual-carbureted 1.8 L B18 inline-4 producing 100 hp, though as time progressed introduced variants such as the 1800S with a 2.0 L B20 giving 118 hp, a fuel-injected 1800E with a powerful 130 hp engine and a shooting brake called the 1800ES, with its power downgraded to 125 hp.

The P1800's production reached its end of the line in 1973 with an estimated total of 45,500 units sold. It was indirectly replaced by the Volvo 262C coupé.

Despite the discontinuation, Volvo's factory racing team Cyan Racing was Revisiting the Roots of the classic Volvo P1800 in 2020 by building an Ace Custom restomod of their own, called the P1800 Cyan, painted in its distinctive cyan paint job and a modified turbocharged inline-4 engine that boosts up to 420 hp.

• American exploitation film Act of Vengeance has this hotshot with his brake from shooting with the Volvo 1800 ES.
• In Bridge of Spies, the East German attorney Wolfgang Vogel drives one of these, which he sends roaring through East Berlin's streets with Donovan as his passenger.

• The Miniseries Clark is about the titular notorious Swedish criminal Clark Olofsson where he causes trouble around Stockholm driving his classic 1973 Volvo 1800 ES, especially during the infamous Norrmalmstorg robbery.
• The Cool Car of the 2023 series Goosebumps (2023), featuring the red Volvo 1800ES shooting brake, owned by Nathan Bratt, the new English teacher at Port Lawrence High School.
• Andrew Prentice of Next of Kin owns a vintage Volvo P1800 ES Sports Back, one of his prized possessions that he's reluctant to sacrifice.
• Simon Templar's Cool Car in The Saint, when it appeared, was a white Volvo P1800 with the number plate ST1. This model Volvo is still often referred to as "the Saint's car", with miniature versions made by Corgi which have proved popular and help raise Volvo's image at the time. Even his portrayer Roger Moore owns one, too.
  Roger Moore: I have a great affection for the Volvo P1800, as, of course, I owned one as well as used one in the series. It’s a beautiful car.
• This becomes a popular notoriety being the Cool Car or Hero's Classic Car at best in the series Stargate SG-1. Major Samantha Carter would be the driver who commanders a silver-grey 1963 Volvo P1800.

• Forza: Meet the 1972 Volvo 1800E, one of the Barn Finds in a 2017 update of Forza Horizon 3. Naturally returns in Forza Motorsport 7. Probably as a tribute to The Saint, which Warren, as quoted above, is happier enough to mention it!
  Warren: Whoa, coooool. It's a Volvo, but WHAT a Volvo. Front engine, rear drive sports car. And if it's the one I think it is... it's famous. Come on, let's get it out of here.

If you're a 104 year old vampire from Forks or a detective chief inspector from The BBC, this Swedish saloon is likely your best bet to see in either fiction.

Launched at the start of the Turn of the Millennium, the Volvo S60 replaces the aging Volvo S70 as the new premium saloon. It's the car that made a huge difference in the Swedish carmaker's design language when Ford acquired the brand back in 1999. S implies to stand for "saloon".

Designed by Hungarian-American designer Géza Lóczi, the S60 aimed to compete in the European compact saloon market with the likes of the BMW 3 Series, Mercedes-Benz C-Class and the Alfa Romeo 156. The Volvo however outlasted its rivals, with had a long-running production before it eventually got a Product Facelift in 2009. The S60's body design is noted for its rounded shaped and single-angular-shaped panels. Notably, its front fascia resembles to former Viking boats and its rear quarters are noted for its trademark "Volvo's shoulders".

A typical S60 runs on a turbocharged/turbodiesel 2-liter B5 inline-5 engine, though newer generations also offer Ford EcoBoost B4 inline-4 and B6 inline-6, a few of it are twincharged with a turbocharger and supercharger simultaneously. The S60 had performance trims, such as the S60 R, launched at the Paris Motor Show in 2002, the S60 R-Design in The New '10s and a limited-edition S60 Polestar in 2013.

Starting in The New '10s, Volvo launched an estate variant of the S60 called the Volvo V60. This was the first Volvo made under the new management from its Chinese giant, Zhejiang Geely Holding Group.

The S60 has been active in motorsport racing, mainly being the powerhouse of the Swedish/Scandinavian Touring Car Championship (STCC), in its distinctive cyan paint job (with the aptly named Cyan Racing), with Swedish driver Thed Björk reigning supreme for three consecutive seasons from 2013 to 2015. It also competed in the V8 Supercars in Australia from 2013 to 2016. New Zealander Scott McLaughlin impressed Volvo with a 3rd place finish in the manufacturer's final year.

• An IKEA ad regarding energy saving has a man try to drive to work in his silver Volvo S60, only for a literal Mama Bear to encourage him to be more sustainable, prompting him to use a bicycle instead.
• "Sorry, I didn't see you", says this careless man driving a black Volvo S60 in this road safety ad from Iceland's Umferðarstofa, making an excuse not looking twice at an intersection when a motorcyclist runs into him upon crossing.

• One of the unmarked police cars of Ambulance is a silver 2019 Volvo S60, commandeered by LAPD Captain Monroe in the hunt for the Sharp brothers.
• Dr. Tess Coleman from Freaky Friday (2003) owns a silver 2001 Volvo S60. Following the "Freaky Friday" Flip, Not-Tess Drives Like Crazy, whilst eating McDonald's on the road, much to Not-Anna's dismay!
  Tess (in Anna's body): You picked up my car?!
  Anna (in Tess's body): Yeah!
• Jon Arbuckle of the live-action film Garfield: The Movie owns a gray 2001 Volvo S60 T5, which he takes our titular cat, Odie and Liz around Los Angeles.
• Lisbeth midway through The Girl in the Spider's Web would be one of the Women Drivers at worst when she jumps in her Volvo S60 and starts to drive like crazy on the motorway.
• Despite being just a prop, the Volvo S60 is the car that John Wick 1 would jump on from its bonnet and launch a surprise attack to one of the Mooks driving a black Chevrolet Tahoe.
• Any Lifetime Movie of the Week made by Doug Campbell assures to have a Volvo S60/V60, usually driven by the protagonist's mother:
  • Stalked by My Neighbor has Andrea Allen and her daughter Jodi own a silver 2014 Volvo S60 T6.
  • Whom what Dr. Albert Beck would be stalking next in Stalked By My Doctor would be Sophie Green and her mother Adrienne, who own a 2015 Volvo V60
  • In Stalked By My Mother, Maddy Beauregard's mother Claire drives and in her black 2015 Volvo V60, where she surreptitiously following her daughter around Whittendale College.
• A Direct-to-Video sequel Marley & Me: The Puppy Years shows that the Grogan couple have a Volvo S60.
• Alex Fletcher's agent in Music and Lyrics drives a silver Volvo S60, chauffeuring Alex and Sophie to her house for a celebratory dinner.
• The premise of this Road Trip Plot Please Stand By has Wendy Welcott, a young autistic woman living in a group home in Oakland, drive for miles to deliver her 427-page Star Trek script to Paramount in Los Angeles, using her family's grey Volvo V60 Cross Country.
• Nothing beats a good Product Placement other than the red 2014 Volvo S60 in the movie The Standoff (2016). That being said, it's the central car of the film, where it is the MacGuffin for whoever the kids can go three days without sleep.
• It took five films for Edward Cullen's Cool Car from the novel to physically show up in film. And as for The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2, he still digs with Volvos when he now drives a very un-vampish black 2011 Volvo S60 R-Design. Bella Swan even drives his car when taking Jacob Black for the drive.

• The Product Placement that kickstarted The Twilight Saga is what prompted Bella Swan to call Edward Cullen a "stupid, shiny Volvo owner" as quoted above. And in the first novel Twilight (2005), it mentions that the teen vampire drives a Volvo S60 R. This however differentiates from the film, as he drives a C30 instead. Fortunately his car from the novel finally shows up in Breaking Dawn – Part 2.

• A black 2005 Volvo S60 would be Katherine Willows's car in season 7 of CSI. That same episode also met the Volvo's demise when Katherine got entangled in a car accident where the Mooks attempt to abduct her daughter Lindsay. Following the totaling of her Volvo, she ends up replacing it with a Volkswagen Touareg.
• Christopher Hayden's S60 is his second Volvo used throughout season 7 of Gilmore Girls, replacing his 2001 S80.
• Arizona Robbins, a surgeon from Grey's Anatomy drives a red Volvo S60. Teddy Altman, a cardiothoracic surgeon has her wagon; a dark blue Volvo V60.
• Volvos are prevalent in the Irish series Hidden Assets. In all episodes of season 1, a posh-spec 2020 Volvo S60 R-Design is the Cool Car used by several main characters to get around Antwerp, Belgium.
• Seo Joo-won, an architect at a construction firm in Just Between Lovers would driver a red Volvo S60. Probably a Product Placement with the Swedish car brand.
• Primarily used by character Dr. Gillian Foster of Lie to Me, being his silver 2005 Volvo S60 saloon.
• One of the Cool Cars that is the star of the show Line of Duty has Steve Arnott cracking down on ‘bent coppers’ in the firm’s stylish Volvo S60.
• Plenty of Volvos in Midsomer Murders, expect S60s featured in later seasons.
• Cameron "Cam" Tucker" of Modern Family owns a red 2011 Volvo S60 where all Pritchett family mishaps ensues. When the boys are tasked to wash the Volvo during "Virgin Territory", instead, they instead take it for a spin just to impress Manny's crush Mirinda. Of course, karma bites their asses when they return the Volvo back home.
• In "Regrets" of Murder in Mind, a struggling business owner named Ken Grendle drives himself and his wife in his silver Volvo S60, expressing regret what his future will be like after losing his business.
• Season 9 of New Tricks revolves with the Volvo S60 of Gerry Standing. Another is the 2014 Volvo V60 D5 R-Design of Sandra Pullman in season 11.
• The car that August Kellerman got involved in a hit-and-run accident that sets up "Where Not to Look for Freedom" of One Tree Hill, when the car August crashed onto at the Gabel Bridge is Julian Baker's Volvo S60. Julian isn't happy about this mess.
  Julian: My name is Julian Baker, my wife Brooke was in the car you hit.
  August: I'm sorry for that.
  Julian: You think that's enough? I watched her lungs fill with water because of what you did. I watched her eyes go dim.
  August: I said I was sorry.
  Julian: Well sorry isn't enough. You insensitive jerk, that's my wife. You understand? I nearly lost my wife. Nathan nearly lost his son, do you know what that feels like?
  August: Yes, I do. I've lost both.
• In the near-end of "Faultlines" of Scott & Bailey, Rachel Bailey gets in a driver's black 2000 Volvo S60 and try to nurse her critically injured partner Janet Scott, following the killer stabbing her.
• Stretford police constable Tom O'Leary from Shameless (UK) would do his duties as a cop, patrolling in a Volvo S60 police car.
• The BBC has a deal with Volvo, putting its Product Placement to Sherwood (2022), featuring the red 2020 Volvo S60 T8 used by several primary characters.
• Major Samantha Carter must be really digging into driving Volvos in Stargate SG-1. While she primarily drives a Volvo P1800, the episode "Prometheus" specifically drive a silver Volvo S60.

• Former IZ*ONE member Jo Yuri in her 2023 solo single "Taxi" becomes the Hood Ornament Hottie of a driver's ed Volvo S60 she just wrecked after hitting a fire hydrant.

• One of the two Volvos of Enthusia Professional Racing is the high-performing Volvo S60 R.
• Forza: Quite a subtle of the Volvo sports saloon. The first four Forza Motorsport games had a 2004 Volvo S60 R, 4 added the 2011 Volvo S60 R-Design, and from Horizon 2 up until Motorsport 7, has the S60 Polestar, with its STCC race car and V8 Supercar added. Horizon 3 added its Polestar wagon, the V60 Polestar which showed up in all later games except the 2023 Motorsport game.
• The few Swedish cars that debuted in Gran Turismo 4 would be the Volvo S60 T-5 Sport '03. Given its RHD nature, it's a Japanese-spec model.
• The Volvo S60 BTCS, one of the two Super Touring silhouettes of GRID 2, which can be obtained via its Vehicle Challenge. A staple choice for many star drivers.
• Where Volvos are the spotlight of Race 07 Spin-Off Volvo: The Game, the star of the game goes to the featured cover car; the 2009 Volvo S60 Concept and its racing derivative, the S60 Concept Race. It gets a moment in the game's intro movie. This concept however got a full-production in 2010. Of course, there is also the previous-gen S60 STCC.

Retiring the 850 name emerges the refined evolution of the Volvo's executive offering when it was introduced in 1997. The Volvo V70, its mid-'90s Swedish family estate in the European market. "V" meant "Versatility", with "70", denoting its relative platform size. At the same year, Volvo launched its saloon derivative, the Volvo S70.

Both models are designed by Peter Horbury, who differentiated the 850's old-school boxy design in favor for more rounded bodies. Usually, both the S70 and V70 run on a 2.0–2.5 L inline-5, offered in petrol, diesel or a mix of the two. Initially they're offered as a front-wheel drive, though Volvo made the two available as an all-wheel drive with the S70 AWD and V70 AWD. A performance trim was also included in the package, that being the S70 R and V70 R, while the later gets a larger crossover body called the V70 XC.

Though the S70 retired by the start of the Turn of the Millennium in favor for the S60, the V70 still pushed into production for its second-generation, built out of a rigid Volvo P2 platform. In the end, the new-gen V70 was more "Swedish" than Ford tried to make it since the American brand's acquisition in 1999. From there on, newer generations of the V70 take cues from the Volvo S60, pined-out with an even curvier design. It was Swedish minimalist concept at best.

The V70 was the Long-Runners of station wagons in Volvo's mantlepiece as production continued up until its end in 2016.

• "Slow vs. Fast" from the Danish Road Safety Council shows the father speeding on the countryside in his black Volvo V70, only to be caught by a speed trap, prompting him to slow down before he settles back home.
• A few Volvo V70 drivers are victims of being cut off the road in this Swedish Road Safety Public Service Announcement. Even the last scene shows a Volvo V70 driver cutting off a pedestrian crossing the street.

• 101 Ways (the Things a Girl Will Do to Keep Her Volvo) is an obvious in-your-face example of a Volvo Product Placement when a New Yorker named Watson falls in love with her brand new Volvo S70 that her overprotective mom forced her to buy, despite that she Does Not Drive.
• 28 Weeks Later, Don Harris and his family try to survive the outbreak around London with their blood-stained silver Volvo V70. Good choice of wheels when it comes to security from all the vicious zombies.
• Seth Davis from Boiler Room would drive something more Boring, but Practical with his silver 1998 Volvo V70 XC Cross Country, as oppose to his peer Greg Weinstein, the rich socialite who fancies a Ferrari. It's shown when he pulls into the car park for his first day on the job as he takes down the "Jewish Mother On Board" sign from the window.
• The police of Børning 2 use Volvo V70s in an attempt to bust illegal street racers.
• I Think We're Alone Now features Grace traverses where Del goes around the Ghost Town, driving her black 1998 Volvo V70.
• Conor O'Malley's grandmother at the near-end of A Monster Calls talks to her grandson inside her old 1999 Volvo V70 about the condition of his mother upon the drive back home from the hospital.
• The Brown family at the start of Paddington (2014) has their Volvo V70 when taking in and protect the titular orphaned cub.
• One of the Mooks in Ronin (1998) run a silver 1998 Volvo V70 R when doing the trade for weapons in Paris.
• In School of Rock, every Horace Green parent drives a Volvo, with the V70 being one of the many cars featured in the film.
• Not really your Road Trip Plot in Sightseers when Chris whisks with his new girlfriend Tina for an exploration around the British countryside driving a 2005 Volvo V70 with a caravan he's proudly fond of.
• In Silent Hill: Revelation 3D, Heather Mason, the reincarnation of Sharon Da Silva is forced to go to the infernal town of Silent Hill to find her father, Christopher/Harry Mason, travelling in her Volvo V70.
• The perfect car to try to escape a Zombie Apocalypse in World War Z when Gerri Lane and his family go aboard in a silver 2005 Volvo V70 in an attempt to escape an outbreak in Philadelphia, but ends up getting into an accident when he t-boned an ambulance.

• Gus Fring's 1998 Volvo V70 in Breaking Bad, a subtle station wagon best represented that he can drive it Hidden in Plain Sight. His Cool Car and his suspicion would be as par as Walter White's own 2004 Pontiac Aztek when Walter himself tries to put Gus's Volvo in shambles with a GPS tracker or a car bomb.
  • In the prequel Better Call Saul, Gus's Volvo estate would be more of a basic practical car to drive to Mike's workplace.
• Will Graham of Hannibal would be pulled into the dark world driving his silver 2000 Volvo V70.
• Carrie Mathison of Homeland gets herself an old 1998 Volvo V70 estate as her Cool Car for season 6. Season 7 has her in a 2001 model instead.
• The Gray family of Judging Amy primarily has their silver Volvo V70, used by the titular Amy gray to drive with her daughter Lauren Cassidy.
• Lois Lane of Superman & Lois owns a 2001 Volvo V70 XC. Following her interview for the Smallville Gazette, her Volvo explodes and burns in the hands of bad guys.
• Alan Harper's less-than-10-year-old Volvo V70 in Two and a Half Men is inexplicably this when it comes to being The Alleged Car at its worst times. It's a Gen.2 2001 model, yet everyone calls it a 1989 Volvo, as if it was a 240 estate. As with that, it can't even keep up with Charlie's Mercedes-Benz.
  Alan: What does your Mercedes do that my Volvo can't?

• This dude shows a lot of heroism in "It's Not My Time" by 3 Doors Down when he goes Le Parkour and save a woman and her daughter driving a Volvo V70 XC from what would be a fatal accident.
• The main premise of "Volvo Driving Soccer Mom" by Everclear talks about a Former Teen Rebel who is now a Volvo Driving Soccer Mom living in the suburbs with a husband and 2 kids, with a boring middle-class life. So what's her choice for a Mommy Mobile? Obviously, a Volvo, specifically the 2003 Volvo V70.
  "I really used to be a bad girl
  I had a threesome with my sister and her boyfriend Tom
  I know I used to be a real wild child
  But now I am a Volvo-driving soccer mom"

• One of the few family wagons of Enthusia Professional Racing is the Volvo V70 R, a C-Class flying brick in automatic transmission that can even keep up with luxury sedans, performance-wise.
• The station wagon, one of the playable vehicles of Thrill Drive resembles to the Volvo V70.

• "Chickens" of BoJack Horseman has this to say regarding Kelsey's Volvo V70 with a silly bumper sticker:
  Fuzzyface: (on the phone) Los Angeles P.D. Are you the owner of a 2002 Volvo with a "Reelect Al Gore" bumper sticker?
  Kelsey: As relevant today as it was then.
• Principal Seymour Skinner of The Simpsons still delves into Volvo. Probably after ditching his old 240 saloon, season 16 has him rocking a white 2000 Volvo V70 estate.

The Hummer Dinger from Sweden.

Volvo is best known for its saloon and estates, but with the trend of SUVs booming, Volvo would experiment with their own range of those big boys. The XC series are Volvo's line of crossover SUVs that started of with the XC90 which made its first impression to the public at the North American International Auto Show in 2002, heavily based on the Volvo Adventure Concept Car that was unveiled a year prior. The XC name is short for "Cross Country".

The rugged XC90 is a seven-seater mixed with a dose of an MPV, built with safety standards, featuring a boxy design with a mix of big and rounded shapes, and wheel-arches known as "Volvo's shoulders". The XC90 often comes in a range of petrol and diesel engines from entry-level inline-6s to powerful V8s. The success of the SUV spawned its rivals like the Mercedes-Benz ML-Class and the BMW X5.

It lead to a Spin-Off of the XC, like the XC70 in 2008, being essentially a larger version of the V70 estate, its compact crossover, the XC60 also introduced in 2008, and its subcompact called the XC40, introduced in 2017. By The New '20s, Volvo launched a Green Aesop variant of the XC90 called the EX90, intended to replace the XC90 itself.

• Volvo is associated as the Product Placement for 3 Idiots with the red 2009 XC90 R-Design used by the titular trio for their hilarious coming-of-age misadventures.
• The Pearson family of Aliens in the Attic owns a Volvo XC90, driven by the dad Stuart who takes them to their lakeside holiday home in Creek Landing, Michigan.
• Dawson Cole is surprised to see his girlfriend Amanda at the beginning of The Best of Me when she arrives at Tuck's garage driving her silver 2010 Volvo XC90.
• A popular choice for American middle-class families, Cal Weaver's wife Emily of Crazy, Stupid, Love drives a silver 2009 Volvo XC90.
• Rather than call an ambulance following the car crash at the secluded area, Michèle Leblanc of Elle calls her friend Patrick to rescue her. He arrives at the scene in his Volvo XC60. This would also be the SUV where Patrick rapes her.
• Lars Erickssong of Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga would get around Iceland, driving his blue 2015 Volvo XC90 R-Design. And regarding what his Volvo is what he'd describe his penis...
  Lars: Uh, I kind of describe my penis like a Volvo automobile. Solid, sturdy, dependable but not going to turn any heads.
• Four Brothers, one Volvo XC90, driven by Angel Mercer in a slippery snowy roads of Detroit. During the shootout Angel does a Deus ex Machina when he uses his Volvo to slam down a Mooks van to prevent his brothers from getting incapacitated even further especially with Jack bleeding to death from the subsequent gunfight.
• Yet a Product Placement for Gone Girl would go to Nick Dunne's Cool Car, that being his 2013 Volvo XC90, a representation of a fallen middle-class family. This car gets a lot of screen time when Nick tries to look for his wife Amy.
• Ah, yes. The opening of The Hangover Part III when a decapitated giraffe's head from the Low Clearance at the highway ended up landing on the windshield of someone else's Volvo XC90. Chaos on the highway ensues.
• In Hereditary Annie meets Joan for the first time at the parking lot driving her in a Volvo XC70.
• The Baxter family of Home Alone: The Holiday Heist have a Volvo XC70, especially as shown in the film beginning when they go for the move from California to Maine to settle into their new house during the Christmas season.
• Jules Allgood from The Kids Are All Right would drive the family around Los Angeles in her 2008 Volvo XC70.
• Rebecca's boyfriend Bret of Lights Out (2016) owns a 2007 Volvo XC90. Thankfully his SUV comes handy to get rid of Diana by flashing his Volvo's headlights.
• Martin during the beginning of A Long Way Down would drive his Volvo XC90 to a New Year's Eve party at Toppers Building only just to contemplate suicide from the rooftop.
• Kate of The Other Woman (2014) would get around Manhattan driving her brown 2010 Volvo XC90.
• In Prom, Corey's mom drives him to school in her gray 2008 Volvo XC70.
• RV isn't just about the RV, as Bob Munro drives a white 2003 Volvo XC90 during the film's opening.
• School of Rock features both the XC70 and XC90 as two of the many Volvos driven by the private school parents.
• After Tom's Toyota Tacoma gets destroyed by Dr. Robotnik in Sonic the Hedgehog (2020), him and the titular hedgehog, along with Tom's wife Maddie, complete their trip to San Francisco by "borrowing" his sister-in-law's Volvo XC90. But because Sonic is driving and he Drives Like Crazy, the Volvo doesn't fair much better.
• Edward Cullen must be fancying Volvos throughout The Twilight Saga. In New Moon, the vampire get a larger than life-sized ride, replacing his C30 hatch for a new Volvo XC60, as shown when he makes his glam entrance in Bella Swan's campus. He continues to drive this Swedish grocery-getter in Eclipse.

• Donnie Caan, one of the employees at Axe Capital during episode 9 of Billions owns a silver 2007 Volvo XC90.
• DCI Tom Brannick has is first-gen Volvo XC90 in Bloodlands (2021) to get around Northern Ireland.
• The Pilot of Cougar Town shows that Jules Cobb owns a Volvo XC90, as she drives her son Travis to school, and even see along the way, a lawn with an obligatory sign of her, much to her horror.
• Apparently, Jeff would get himself a Volvo XC90 for season 8 of Curb Your Enthusiasm as his new Cool Car to replace his Toyota Highlander.
• Susan Meyer in earlier seasons of Desperate Housewives owns a 2003 Volvo XC70. During "Liaisons", Her Volvo met her demise when she drives it into a lake. By season 5, she replaced her Cadillac Escalade with an XC60. Guess Susan must be a Volvo enthusiast.
• In the reality game show Hunted (2015), Product Placement means that the Hunters all cruise around in black XC90s... which is oddly fitting given that the SUV is commonly used as a police vehicle in the UK.
• It's Okay to Not Be Okay has a deluxe of Product Placements, with Volvo being one of them. Seo Ye-ji's character would drive a Volvo XC90 Hybrid SUV.
• A black Volvo XC90 is Ahn Min-hyuk's personal ride in Strong Woman Do Bong-soon.
• Tom Clarke's father during the very first episode of Wizards vs. Aliens was teleported in his car, being a Volvo XC90. With Tom's magical aid, Michale drives the Volvo away from the Nekross Ship and land down to the Earth's surface.

• Avicii must be feeling good in his Cover Version of "Feeling Good" when he relaxes for a lengthy drive in his black Volvo XC90 across various open scapes. Considered to be a Product Placement since the song is part of the collaboration with Volvo.

• Forza: Only in Forza Motorsport 7 with the 2017 Volvo XC90 R-Design as part of the March Car Pack. It's the only Volvo XC SUV to be Promoted to Playable after being just a traffic car in Forza Horizon.
• One of the two starters of the Sport Utility Class of Project Gotham Racing 2 has you kick off with the Volvo XC90.