Volvo S90, V90 and V90 Cross Country on the way

The Volvo V70 (pictured) will become the new Volvo V90

All the talk for Volvo lately has been the new 2015 Volvo XC90, an impressive offering that really does look like it will take the fight in the ‘Premium’ SUV market to the Germans (and even to Land Rover). But the new XC90 is just the start of Volvo’s new model line-up, and the next couple of years will see more new models arriving with Volvo’s new Scalable Product Architecture (SPA) and the new range of 4-cylinder, 2.0 litre engines.

What we now also know, thanks to Volvo’s Dennis Nobelius, is that the replacements for the S80, V70 and XC70 won’t use the current nomenclature but will be given new names to better reflect their upmarket aspirations (and their place in Volvo’s new line-up).

So the next generation S80 will become the new Volvo S90 – and there’ll be a stretched S90L version too, aimed at the Chinese market – the V70 will become the Volvo V90 and the XC90 will – very sensibly as it’s not really an SUV – get the more appropriate Volvo V90 Cross Country moniker – more appropriate for a model that’s really an ‘AllRoad’ Estate and following the lead of the V40 Cross Country.

All the new models will come underpinned by the new SPA platform and sporting a range of 2.0 litre engines – including turbo and supercharged versions and hybrids – as Volvo pushes upmarket.

And all this, apparently, will happen in the next two years.

Source: Telegraf.nl

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