The Geneva Motor Show is just around the corner, but that can't come soon enough for those waiting to see Volvo's latest Crossover to join the Flagship XC90...the production version of the popular XC60 Concept...I should know, I am one of them!
Well it seems that Larson from over at World Car Fans.com, the same bloke who penned the illustrations of the Jaguar XJ Flagship and the Jaguar based 911 Fighter shown on Left Lane News has taken a hand at a computer chop of the upcoming XC60...and I think he may get this one pretty damn close. Tell me what you think?
The only thing I'm wondering about is the slope of the hatch...
had a convo with a Volvo wagon owner way back when
& she loved the very vertical, square kind
said it gave her more room to load transport cages for the dogs she bred.
&
kinda think (in my ideal lineups) that the XC's should be like that too
&
a swoopier 5-door (my "P" series) could exist happily alongside ^those^ for the more (or different) 'lifestyle' customers
edit/ps
just saw a post saying an announcement/reveal is coming on Feb 20
edit2/pps
from WorldCarFans.com
"Volvo announced that their brand new Volvo XC60 crossover will make its world premiere at the upcoming Geneva Motor Show on March 4."
^^ think it's Hungarian Here's the only translator I found - not good
wonder if Igor can translate it?
(tho all the usual suspects will prolley have it in Eng/weblish by tomorrow)
translation by Andonis @ GMI (most of it anyway, I think)
Andonis said:
so it says
its safe and exciting
it will be shown on march the 4th in geneva
volvo plans to sell anually 50K xc60s. the biggest markets will be by 2010 usa, germany, great brit, russia and china. its a powerful, sporty car, the volvo stepped a bit higher in terms of design..bla bla
and among the biggest innovations is the City Safety system, this will help the driver avoiding fender benders at low speeds. it would automatically hit the brakes not to get into an accident.
initially it would be available with 3 engine choices 285 hp turbocharged with T6
and two diesels (185 or 163hp) turbodiesel D5
all of them will be AWD
it would be assembled in genk, belgium
the sales start in europe in the second half of 2008, in us beginning of 2009
I really like the 285bhp Turbocharged Inline-Six...that will offer plenty of horsepower, but more importantly, a huge amount of low end torque which is great for off the line starts with a load. It is a safe assumption that we will not see either Diesel here in the United Stated. Maybe a non-turbocharged Inline-Six for a possible base/entry model...or maybe even just a Turbocharged Inline-Five.
I do like the looks of the interior especially! It has the layout and flow of the concept, but feels more like Ikea instead of iPod. It is just more warm and contemporary and looks even better now that the Navigation screen has been incorporated into the dash, versus the former pop-up system. The back end though is where the best design came in...it matches the concept very closely and is just stunning!
More images of the new Volvo XC60 have leaked out ahead of its Geneva Debut. These give us even better views of of this Volvo's stunning exterior and its evolution of the Volvo DNA.
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