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Volvo sold to China

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  • #52
    TheColl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 321 ✭✭TheColl


    realistically, with Great Wall motors set to be imported, and Volvo being 'sold to China', are we looking at a European market being dominated by Chinese designed/copied!/manufactured motors within the next 10-15 years? i.e. is all this recent news just the start of a major change in our market?


  • #53
    Tragedy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,056 ✭✭✭Tragedy


    Mailman wrote: »
    3-series is in top 10 sellers in UK. I don't work off sales in Ireland. Flagship models make sales for bread and butte models for premium car manufacturers. This has always been the case.
    3 series, so what?
    That 3.2 is a Ford engine designed partially in sweden, manufactured in a Ford plant and used elsewhere in LandRover product.
    The 3.2 is a volvo designed engine manufactured by ford. The 4.4 v8 is a joint volvo/yamaha engine manufactured by yamaha.
    That Diesel is a horrible thing. You have heard positive reviews and I've heard negative reviews and had first hand experience of it in an XC90. My brother disliked it so much he traded it in very soon after buying it new.
    Motoring press have never ever panned the D5 engine. Many times they haven't been overly positive, but they've never been overly critical either. Maybe it's just poorly implemented in the XC90.


    Regardless, we've still come a long way from
    "Volvo generally didn't build their own engines for the last few decades. With Volvo all along it was the first thing I'd check when ever a new Volvo car was released to market.
    Sometimes it was a good thing - latest Focus engines. Sometimes bad - ancient Renault lumps."
    Reckon you have enough evidence to admit you're wrong?


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