Our Values and Beliefs
Volvo has stood for a few clear things since 1927, and we hold to the same ones at Isringhausen Volvo Cars in Springfield, IL. Strip away the model years and the marketing, and it still comes down to how the company treats the person behind the wheel and the road they share with everyone else, from the school run to the interstate.
Personal
Volvo says no one should ever be seriously injured or killed in one of its new cars. That isn't a tagline someone cooked up last quarter. It has been the company's stated job since 1927, and it still decides what makes it into every model on our lot. What changes is the toolkit, from crumple zones decades ago to the driver-assist tech shipping now.
- Safety became a core value in 1927, and that same goal shapes every Volvo built since.
- Volvo engineers for the real people who ride in the car, not some average driver who exists only on a spec sheet.
- The three-point seat belt arrived in 1959, and Volvo gave the patent away so every other automaker could copy it.
- A Litchfield, IL, family in a Volvo XC90 ride is protected by the same safety cage and driver-assist systems found across the Volvo lineup.
- Volvo builds a high-strength steel safety cage into every car, the shell that does its job in the split second you're unable to avoid a collision.
Sustainable
Volvo aims for net zero greenhouse gas emissions across its whole business by 2040, matched to the Paris Agreement-That's the headline number. Those targets are easier to hold Volvo accountable, and some of those electric Volvo models are on our lot, ready for a test drive.
- COâ‚‚ (carbon dioxide) emissions per car drop 65 to 75 percent by 2030 against a 2018 baseline, with materials and operations each down 30 percent per car in the same stretch.
- The pure electric lineup runs from the compact Volvo EX30 through the Volvo EX40, the Volvo EC40, and the three-row Volvo EX90.
- Every electric Volvo ships with a published carbon footprint report, the kind of detail a Decatur, IL buyer can read before signing anything.
- Drive a Volvo EX90 home to Jacksonville, IL, and its footprint traces back through a factory Volvo is working to clean up too.
- Volvo will go fully electric as charging catches up, so no one around here gets pushed into an EV before the infrastructure is ready.
- European plants have run on hydroelectric power since 2008, and a climate-neutral, electric-only plant near Kosice, Slovakia, starts building next-generation Volvos in early 2027.
Safety
Volvo has been taking real crashes apart since the 1970s, logging into what actually happens to people and cars. That data isn't academic. It comes back as the features you lean on during an ordinary Tuesday commute, long before you ever need the ones that protect you in a wreck.
- City Safety uses cameras and radar to catch cars, pedestrians, cyclists, and larger animals, then brakes for you when you can't stop in time.
- Pilot Assist keeps you centered and a safe distance back on the highway run down to Bloomington, IL.
- A multi-adaptive seat belt reads the crash as it happens and adjusts how firmly it holds each person on board.
- Connected Safety lets one Volvo flag black ice or a stalled car to other Volvos nearby, so a driver near Champaign, IL gets the warning early.
- Cross Traffic Alert and the Blind Spot Information System cover the angles you can't see, from a packed parking lot to a fast interstate merge.
Visit Isringhausen Volvo Cars Today
Come to our Springfield, IL, showroom to chat with an experienced sales representative and experience what makes our Volvo dealership the go-to location for drivers across southern Illinois.
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Isringhausen Volvo Cars
228 E Jefferson St
Springfield, IL 62701
- Sales: 217-680-2788
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