沃尔沃计划推出S90大型轿车,最近外媒披露了该车更多细节。作为S80的替代车型，S90将是沃尔沃旗下首款跻身大型四门轿车行列的车型，该车的设计灵感来自刚刚发布的第二代XC90。很明显，S90将比S80档次更高，更豪华。同时沃尔沃还将主要针对中国市场推出长轴距版的S90 L，但该车将不仅限于投放中国，如果存在市场需求，美国和欧洲大陆某些国家也将被目标市场。S90将与新一代XC90共享SPA（Scalable Product Architecture）可扩展平台，两款车的主要机械部件都一样。入门级和中级车型将搭载一系列Drive-E四缸汽油和柴油引擎，而顶级款将采用汽油-电动插电混动系统。所有车型都将标配八速自动变速器。虽然S90可称得上是沃尔沃最豪华车型，但公司CEO 汉肯?塞缪尔森(Hakan Samuelsson)并不认同李书福关于该车是奔驰S级和宝马7系同级竞争车型的说法。他表示，沃尔沃并没有为该车提供V8和V12引擎，因此他不认为S级是S90竞争车型。他认为，该车对手主要是奔驰E级和宝马5系。S90计划于明年晚些时候上市，这意味着它很可能会在明年法兰克福车展首次亮相。

 

Details emerge about Volvo's E-Class-fighting S90 sedan

Volvo is preparing to introduce a large sedan called S90, and a new report give us a better idea of what to expect when it lands.

 

Designed to replace the aging S80, the S90 will take the form of a large four-door sedan whose overall design will be inspired by the recently-introduced second-generation XC90. The S90 will be decidedly more upscale than the S80, and it will likely spawn a long-wheelbase model designed primarily for buyers in China. However, Volvo has hinted the stretched S90 L could be offered in the United States and in select markets on the Old Continent if there is enough demand from buyers.

 

The S90 will ride on an evolution of the modular Scalable Product Architecture (SPA) platform that underpins the 2015 XC90, and the two cars will share the bulk of their mechanical components. Base and mid-range versions of the upcoming sedan will be offered with a wide array of gasoline- and diesel-burning four-cylinder engines sourced from Volvo's Drive-E family, while the range-topping model will pack an efficient gasoline-electric plug-in hybrid drivetrain. An eight-speed automatic transmission will come standard all across the board.

 

Although the S90 is shaping up to be the most upscale Volvo sedan in recent memory, Volvo CEO Hakan Samuelsson has refuted company chairman Li Shufu's earlier statement that it will fight head-to-head against the Mercedes-Benz S-Class and the BMW 7-Series.

 

"We will never have V12 or V8 engines. I think Mercedes will not see this as a S-Class competitor," explained Samuelsson in an interview with Australian magazine Motoring. Another executive revealed to the same source that the S90 is being developed to fight head-to-head against the Mercedes-Benz E-Class and the BMW 5-Series.

 

The Volvo S90 is scheduled to go on sale late next year, meaning it could be presented to the public at next year's edition of the Frankfurt Motor Show.