'Face' of all new Volvo XC90 revealed

Volvo have released an image of the front end or 'face' of the new XC90 SUV, distinguished by its T-shaped running lights.

The new XC90, to be launched in two weeks' time in Stockholm, will be the first car in its range to be built on the Scalable Product Architecture (SPA) modular chassis technology developed in-house.

The SPA has been developed over the past four years and will be later be rolled out across the Volvo product range in the future.

Its flexibility allows engineers and designers to devise and introduce a wide range of new design features at the same time as improving driveability, introducing world-first safety features, offering the latest connected car technologies, and creating more interior space.

Secondly, Volvo say SPA will change the way they build cars in future by allowing a wide range of cars, powertrains, electrical systems and technologies - all of differing complexity in areas like wheelbase, overhang, height etc - to be fitted on the same architecture, meaning significant economies of scale. Around 90 percent of the components in this new XC90 and upcoming models are new and unique.

Volvo claim the XC90's combination of luxury, space, versatility, efficiency and safety will bring the SUV segment into a new dimension, just as the original XC90 did in 2002.