MANILA, Philippines - More than 50,000 downloads were made in two days of Volvo Cars’ and SimBin’s recently released PC racer Volvo–The Game. The number of visits to Volvo Cars’ website, www.volvocars.com, increased to 50 percent compared to its previous daily average on the release day. More than 5 million search results in Google for Volvo - The Game also show some of the great interest.
In addition, an increasing amount of players are testing their driving skills in two global competitions. Through the “Global competition” – available on www.volvocars.com/game – are players invited to compete with their best lap time against other players across the world.
Two days after the game was released, more than 1,200 people were already competing. The competition is set up as two independent races. The first ran between May 26 and June 9, on the Gothenburg Eco Drive Arena in Sweden. The second competition is ongoing until June 24, on the Chayka race track.
The players compete with the S60 Concept Car in the competitions and after each lap, each player’s score will show as well as the position. The number of laps a player can drive is unlimited and some 40 people have so far been running more than 100 laps individually.
In Manila, Viking Cars, Incorporated is the official distributor of Volvo cars. The Volvo Makati office, showroom and Customer Service Center are located at 2272 Chino Roces Avenue, Makati City. Volvo Cebu is located at A.S. Fortuna Street, Banilad, Mandaue City. The 2009 Volvo automobile line includes the nimble C30 Sports Coupé, the versatile All-New C70 Coupé-Convertible, the compact All-New S40 and V50 Sportswagon, the sporty S60, the flagship All-New S80 luxury sedan, the ruggedly refined All-New XC70 Cross Country and the award-winning XC90 AWD. Also available in the Philippines now is the groundbreaking Volvo XC60 with City Safety as standard. For details and inquiries, please call 893-6621 to 22 or 637-0414 to 15.