Unlike the diesel engine, the petrol car will not be buried at Volvo for the time being. The brand now confirms that it is presenting a new XC90 with a petrol engine.
It will be built alongside the electric EX90. There are even indications that the next XC90 will be confusingly similar to its electric sibling.
Because Volvo is not ready to discard the popular – and really large – petrol car just yet.
The significantly facelifted XC90 Volvo probably bases on the technology in the platform SPA1, which the brand has used since 2014.
However, there is not much that Volvo will yet say about the 'new' XC90, other than to unveil it at an event the brand calls '90/90 day' on 4 September.
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Volvo writes this in a press release .
Reportedly, the refreshed SUV gets sharper lines, a new front and rear. Thor's Hammer, as Volvo calls its cars' headlights, is also being made more 'modern' to look at.
Until and after September 4 this year, however, interested Volvo customers can only hope that the facelifted XC90 is not plagued by the same problems the brand has with its electric cars.
The new EX90, i.e. the electric version of the top model, is so plagued by problems that it will cost the brand billions of kroner to fix them. In addition, the cars are not delivered with a number of the otherwise promised functions.
The far smaller – and surprisingly popular in Denmark – EX30 is also full of faults. So many mistakes, in fact, that some customers have demanded their money back. Which they got.
Much also suggests that Volvo is not in quite as much of a hurry to get rid of the internal combustion engine as the brand has so far indicated.
And if that is the case, it will hardly surprise anyone. For competitors in line, similar ceilings draw on only building electric cars in the country. Most recently, Audi has announced that you cannot do without the internal combustion engine in 2033 after all.
At Mercedes and Volkswagen, several hundred billion kroner have been set aside from pools that would otherwise have been used for electric cars, for the development of hybrid cars.
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