The boffins at Volvo’s Monitoring & Concept Center have got together to conceptualize the Tandem Vehicle Concept platform. This vehicle platform is primarily aimed at crowded urban areas where traffic congestion is one big problem. To get around this problem, Volvo’s designers have come up with a design that seats the Tandem Concept vehicle’s occupants one behind the other like in a conventional motorcycle. This will provide the Tandem Concept with motorcycle-like agility with the safety of four wheels.

Still, it’s 2008 already - 2010 is right around the corner. VMCC Design Director Geza Loczi remarked that the Tandem is “a real product still in its infancy that needs a lot of molding and tweaking to grow into a full-fledged finished product.”

Volvo Cars has just revealed its fresh personalization package for the Volvo V70 Estate family wagon giving making the car looking more energetic and somewhat alive.

Besides the visual enhancements, which include sports steering wheel, aluminum pedals, smooth leather upholstery and a specially designed center console, new five-spoke aluminum 18-inch wheels, silk metal finish grille with the R Design emblem and chromed exhaust pipes and 11 new exterior colors, the tuning package brings some technical changes as well.

For example, the cars ground clearance has been lowered by 20mm at the front and 15mm at the rear. The V70 R-Design’s suspension now features stiffer anti-roll bars and bushings and more responsive steering feedback making the car more interesting to drive.