Volvo Cars’ Web Site Ranked 4th of 225

GOTHENBURG, SWEDEN - Volvo Cars has expanded its Web site, and the independent research company Bytelevel has placed Volvo Car Corporation’s Web site in fourth place. In the most recent survey, Bytelevel has tested 225 global corporate Web sites.

At mid-year, Volvo Cars will launch an additional seven local Web sites in South and Central America. At mid-year, Volvo Cars will be represented on the Web with 90 sites in 70 countries and in 36 languages. Seven new local Web sites will be launched, including Peru, Paraguay, Puerto Rico, Colombia, Uruguay, Ecuador, and the Dominical Republic.

Two new regional Web sites will also be launched in Central America and the Caribbean. At the same time, there will also be an Arabic version of the regional customer site in the Middle East.

ByteLevel pointed out that Volvo Cars’ Web site is the one that has undergone the greatest improvement in recent years of all of the companies tested.

The top 20 global Web sites

• Google
• Wikipedia
• Cisco Systems
• Volvo
• Philips
• Caterpillar
• Netvibes
• Microsoft
• HP
• Nokia
• Deloitte
• American Express
• Adobe
• Lenovo
• Xbox Panasonic
• IBM
• 3M
• NIVEA
• XING

Go to www.volvocars.com/ for additional information. The Web site has approximately 140,000 visitors a day, which amounts to more than 50 million a year.