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</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (AWD*V70XC @ Jan. 08 2004,18:20)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Now run that V70 - S60/S80 by me again. [/QUOTE]<span id='postcolor'>
Sorry, I didn't mean to get anyone's knickers (I think that's they're called over there?) all in a twist. I was simply trying to draw a simple analogy, which I still believe to be correct.
You are apparently a long term Volvo cognoscenti, with more knowledge of the history of the mark than I. So I apologize if my analogy offended you. But I think what may be escaping you is that these days auto manufacturers rely on "platform engineering" to share chassis and components across models as much as possible in order to save costs. So while the V70 may once have been the estate version of the 700 sedan, unless I have been misinformed, it now shares the same chassis (and of course much componentry) with the S60.
My sources are my Volvo sales rep, who is a long term car nut and Volvo afficiondado, and recent reports here in the automotive press related to the new 2005 Ford 500 sedan and Freestyle "crossover" wagon. These new vehicles are both built on the same chassis (or platform), and it has been reported here that it is the same Volvo designed chassis that is used for the S60 and V70.
It's also possible, although I haven't seen confirmation, that the S80 and XC90 are built on a "stretched" version of this same platform, in which case the analogy is not quite so tidy.
In any event, all I was trying to do in response to the original question, was get across the concept that the V50 has much more in common with the S40 than it does with the V70.
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