New Volvo XC90 will arrive in Late 2014

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New Volvo XC90 will arrive in Late 2014

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Swedish automaker Volvo Car will introduce its first all-new vehicle as a unit of China’s Zhejiang Geely Holding Group Co Ltd in late 2014, Volvo Chief Executive Hakan Samuelsson said on Wednesday.

The new model will be a successor to the Volvo XC90 crossover vehicle, Samuelsson told Reuters on the sidelines of the New York auto show. Volvo is also jointly developing with Geely a new compact platform for smaller models, some of which will be built at a new Volvo plant in Chengdu, China, he said.

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Samuelsson said Volvo also is considering an expansion of its product range to include even smaller subcompact models, as premium European competitors such as BMW and Mercedes-Benz have done.

The subcompact platform also would be jointly developed with Geely, he said. The large luxury platform for the next-generation XC90 is being engineered in Sweden and will also underpin the successor to Volvo’s flagship S80 sedan, Samuelsson said.

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That platform is known inside Volvo as SPA, for Scalable Product Architecture. It can accommodate a variety of power trains, including Volvo’s first production plug-in hybrid system.

Via: ChinaDaily.

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