It's been a bit over 2 years since
Ford Motor Co. sold-out Volvo to China's Geely Automobile, however the Swedes ar still counting on the Blue Oval's platforms and engines. Even the new V40, that we tend to at first expected to use the brand's own hardware, is if truth be told supported a Ford design.
All this can begin to alter from late next year once Volvo introduces the long expected successor to its
fashionable XC90 SUV, because it are the primary model within the vary to use the company's all-new scalable platform design (SPA), that was proclaimed in 2011 through the "You Concept" sedan.
Speaking to journalists attending the presentation of the facelifted S60, V60 and XC60, and S80, V70 and XC70 at Volvo's world headquarters, Volvo's R&D boss Peter Martens aforesaid that when the SUV, the SPA can notice its method below the replacements for the S80 and V70, known as the S90 and V90 severally, and presumably a replacement motorcar model.
Volvo chief operating officer Hakan Samuelsson realized that the event of the SPA is a crucial move, because it can permit the corporate to contend against larger premium carmakers while not breaking the bank.
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"Modularity suggests that independence, however additionally the other," he said, in step with Autonews Europe. "If you're freelance you have got to undertake to search out economy of scale in a different way."
Along with the SPA, Volvo also will introduce its own engines, all of which can have a most of 4 cylinders, in step with Martens, who said, "The time of investigating cylinders is over".
Much like the BMW Group's new generation of turbocharged powerplants, Volvo's engines are standard permitting diesel and gas units to share up to forty % of elements, with every cylinder's capability fastened at "just under" five hundred.
According to the report, the diesels can manufacture from 120hp to 230hp, and also the gas units, from 140hp to 280hp, with all engines being up to fifteen % additional fuel economical than Volvo's current vary. Volvo additional that if additional power is required, it'll use electrification (aka hybrids) to spice up output.
