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What Car? Green Car of the Year - Volvo S40 DRIVe with Start/Stop

The Volvo S40 1.6D DRIVe featuring the new Start/Stop technology has scooped the top honour and been named Green Car of the Year at the prestigious 2009 What Car? Green Car Awards, as well as winning the What Car? Green Small Family Car of the Year award.

Offering exceptionally low CO2 emissions of just 104g/km and returning up to 72.4 mpg on the combined cycle, What Car?'s judges praised the S40 DRIVe's unique combination of low emissions, practicality, safety and driver enjoyment as key reasons for the win. 

Steve Fowler, What Car's editor, heaped praise on the car. He said: "Volvo's S40 DRIVe is one seriously appealing eco-friendly car. Its low emissions don't come at the expense of quality, safety or driver enjoyment and it's great value, too. It's everything we look for in a Green Car of the Year."

Upon receiving the award, Volvo Corporation’s Regional President of Europe Stuart Kerr said "Volvo has a strong commitment to its environmental activities and we have worked hard to reduce the carbon footprint on all our cars by focusing on health, resource utilisation and the ecological consequences right through from production, use to disposal.  The recent launch of the DRIVe range enables Volvo to offer mid-sized cars with the same fuel consumption and CO2 emissions as competitor's small cars. For customers, this means that they don't have to compromise on anything when they choose a Volvo.”  He concluded, “This highly important award is recognition of Volvo's desire to build the most fuel efficient cars possible".

The Volvo S40 DRIVe with Start/Stop is also kind on the budget with an annual tax disc cost of just £35, an insurance group 9 and a frugal diesel engine which gives a range of up to 800 miles between visits to the fuel station.  Currently, drivers who are taking advantage of the Government scrappage scheme can trade in a car over ten years old and save a generous £4,377 on a brand new Volvo S40 DRIVe 1.6D S with Start/Stop, reducing its On The Road price to just £13,118.  Volvo's S40 DRIVe also works well as a company car with a 22% tax payer paying less than £40 month in tax for the S model and a 40% tax payer just £75 per month.

To find out more about this exceptional car, contact Lloyd Volvo Carlisle on 01228 515000 or Lloyd Volvo Cockermouth on 01900 823666.

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