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It is a brand new Volvo model to be built at Volvo Cars new car plant in Chengdu, China. It is built not on the new ultra-modern platform SPA, which will launch this fall. It has been speculated wildly about the car that Volvo Cars will be produced in the new factory is being built on neighboring land to the Geely car plant in Chendou in southwest China , three-hour flight into the country from Shanghai counted.
The tip was tilted to the Volvo Cars new succebil S60, as it would best be suitable for China. But when the press conference revealed Volvo Cars-management that it will be a brand new Volvo car to be built in Chendou.But the first Chinese car built on an existing platform and not on the
new scalable platform SPA; Scalable Platform Architecture, which will be
presented at the Frankfurt Motor Show this autumn.
The first car on the new platform will be an all-new XC90. But it is not
in China. The car that we will build in Chengdu, we will talk about
until a year, "said Olle Axelson, Director of Communications at Volvo
Cars and third in the group hierarchy.
With its proprietary platform cuts Volvo Cars definitely ties to the
previous owner Ford. In the SPA platform, Volvo Cars to build all its
new cars, big and small.
Volvo Cars since 2005 a factory in Chongqing in China. The parts man
with Ford and Mazda and Volvo Cars are likely to withdraw from the
cooperation.They envisage the possibility of building a new plant in Daqing deep in
northeastern China where there are already several car plants.
We must first evaluate the industrial structure of large, logistics and supplier network, "said Olle Axelson.
The localization to Daqing relates partly linked to the oil-rich
province is one of Volvo's major shareholders with 37 percent of the
Chinese holding company which owns Volvo Cars.
The largest shareholder is Geely Holding, which controls 51 percent. The third owner is Jiading, a district of high-Shanghai where Volvo Cars
has its Chinese headquarters. Jiading owns 12 percent of the owner
company. Volvo Cars has now made a profit five consecutive quarters. It has not
happened in six years and now recruits to the full in Sweden, Belgium
and China.
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