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Volvo announced it to the world at Climate Week NYC in September last year, and now they have made it a reality. The brand has built its last diesel car. On a cloudy Thursday in early February, Volvo’s plant in Ghent, Belgium, produced its last diesel-powered car, a V60. And just the other day, their plant in Torslanda, Sweden, saw its last XC90 diesel car roll off the production line.
It's over between Volvo and diesel engines. Last September, at Climate Week NYC, the Swedish carmaker said it was breaking up with Rudolph Diesel's popular, globetrotting invention. Earlier this month, the Volvo plant in Torslanda, Sweden, sent the penultimate diesel-powered XC90 into the world. Then came the ender, the last of its kind: A blue XC90 produced at Volvo's Ghent, Belgium, plant utilizing a twin-turbocharged 2.0-liter four-cylinder mild hybrid making 235 horsepower and 354 pound-feet of torque. Just as with the last-of-its-kind Audi R8 that recently emerged from Audi's Bollinger Hofe facility, the XC90 is headed to a special assignment, the World of Volvo museum, event and conference space slated to open April 14 in Gothenburg, Sweden.
Volvo is living up to the promise it made last year when it announced to end production of vehicles powered by diesel engines in early 2024. This XC90 assembled at the company's Torslanda factory is the final oil-burner produced by the Swedish automaker, ending an era that started 45 years ago. The blue SUV won't be heading to a customer since it'll go into a museum for posterity.
The ship that caused the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore early on Tuesday was also involved in an accident in the port of Antwerp, Belgium, in 2016.
The Bugatti Type 59 model car you see here costs more than a plethora of real vehicles sitting new on dealership lots right now. We aren't talking about entry-level rides, either. An asking price of $28,020 is Toyota Camry money, or for just a few thousand more, you can take home a spiffy new Miata.
Broad Arrow Auctions is taking a 1988 Porsche 959 SC Reimagined by Canepa to this year's sales at the Amelia Island Concours d'Elegance, this example even more special than the average 959. The first bit of plumage setting this bird apart is documentation that shows it was a benchmark car Nissan bought to develop the all-wheel-drive system in the R32 Skyline GT-R. The second splash of color, literal and otherwise, is a four-year overhaul from Porsche specialists Canepa finished in metallic green. Both of those items contribute to a pre-sale estimate of between $3.25 and $3.75 million.
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