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It is just a badge. No Volvo anymore, sadly...
by dainiusse 9mo ago
It is just a badge. No Volvo anymore, sadly...
- jaapz 9mo agoThey still have an office and engineers in Sweden, right?
- wronex 9mo agoThey do. Some are still designed/engineered here in Sweden. Some are not. I don’t know about this one. All trucks, boats, excavators etc. are still Swedish though.
- jacobgorm 9mo agoIt is produced in Sweden.
- seanmcdirmid 9mo agoDesigned and made in Sweden. Geely also produces Volvo designs in China also, but they try to keep all the R&D in Sweden to take advantage of what they actually paid for. Polestar is much of the same, although I think it has more Chinese influences.
- tonyedgecombe 9mo agoAlso Geely are trying to sell Volvo (and Polestar) so further integration s unlikely.
- moogly 9mo agoThat was some rumor that was circulating for a short while, but it's unsubstantiated. Polestar just got a 600 million dollar loan from Geely too. Some people have even speculated that it's Volvo that wants to go independent, but comments from the returning, unretired CEO that they want to do more sharing of tech makes that less likely.
- appplication 9mo agoWait what. As someone who has loved Volvo I could use more context
- wronex 9mo agoVolvo cars (not AB Volvo, the trucks, boats, and excavators maker) was sold to Ford and then to Chinese Geely. A lot of modern Volvo cars are therefore designed and engineered elsewhere to various degrees. Some are even wholly designed and produced in China. Others are not. I’ve heard this new one is more on the Swedish side. Even the motor is supposedly made here, at-least for the once produced in Gothenburg.
- appplication 9mo agoInteresting. I caught some heat on here the other day for suggesting western consumers would likely be averse to Chinese made vehicles, but the sentiment in this thread seems to only reinforce that.
- lawn 9mo agoThe EX60 has been developed and is constructed in Sweden.