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The core of the Volvo brand's overall brand appeal is safety! This safety concept has been accompanied by Volvo changing hands several times, but no matter which one takes over, it is always reinforced, strengthened, strengthened again and again... It has even intensified to the point of "zero deaths" in accidents and the approximate "safety myth" of miracle clubs.
As everyone knows, the so-called "0 deaths" data in propaganda is just the statistics of a single market in an island country, with a total of only tens of thousands of data in the past ten years, which is to blur the performance of the entire global market, which is purely a word game!
With Volvo's flagship SUV model XC90, it can be called a model of Volvo, and it is this model that has been punching the face recently, hitting the left face and hitting the right face, hitting the right face and the left face...
Take a look at several typical accidents of the Volvo XC90 in China: in the outermost lane of the Beijing Daxing International Airport Expressway at the beginning of last year, a white Volvo XC90 serious rear-end stationary truck, after which its A, B and even C pillars were all shaved and cut down, without support at all, especially the A pillar! There are doubts that the frame structure design of this model is outdated! But then again, this formation is also extremely rare, and no one can resist it. It has to be revisited by Volvo's so-called safety...
Volvo hit the world with a 2.0T engine bag, plugged in the hybrid wings, made a Volvo XC90 T8 model, and it is this T8 Volvo XC90 exploded in an underground garage in Nanjing, there are many theories about the cause of this incident, but so far there is no official confirmation of the results announced, just think if it is only the unilateral responsibility of the non-Volvo car, Volvo official should have jumped out to correct the audio-visual, to a wave of crisis public relations! But not yet, probably still under investigation...
Recently, this Volvo XC90 collided with the sanitation work vehicle, from the picture is A, B, C pillar and roof are directly and seriously deformed, A pillar is obviously deformed and bent! Once again, the so-called safety of Volvo seems to have clearly lagged behind the level that today's mainstream models should be, and Volvo will not say that these are "active pressure relief designs", right? I have to ask again, "What is the safety that Volvo claims to be"?
Although, Volvo has been a variety of five-star ratings in various safety certification collisions around the world, especially in Europe, North America and China! What is the highest score of five stars in the European E-NCAP crash test, what Is the North American IIHS crash test, or the domestic crash test all five stars! Although, Volvo dealers around the world are still repeatedly emphasizing its safety performance and zero accident deaths! But the "safety myth" that Volvo has shaped itself has actually been shattered!
At present, all Volvo XC90 models are produced at the Torslanda plant in Tolslanda, Sweden, and are sold in various countries in imported fashion, we have no way of knowing the details of similarities and differences between American and Chinese models, nor do we have the intention of guessing too much... But in short, the security performance of the Volvo XC90 in China is very disappointing!
Recently, this Volvo XC90 model confirmed to be domestic, with volvo electrified new flagship SUV model Embla unveiled within the year, and will be put into production at the South Carolina plant in the United States, this old XC90 flagship will no longer be the flagship, but will not be discontinued, but will continue to be produced in factories including Chengdu, China until 2025, for China to be launched, and the hybrid T8 model will continue to be released in the US market, but it is likely that the production period in the Chinese market will be longer!
It is difficult to imagine how the volvo XC90 will change or evolve in all aspects after the domestic production, and will it still be as safe as claimed? However, the market guidance price after domestic production is said to be within 500,000, after all, it is only a 2.0T power, which shows that its cost pressure is large!
In fact, the development of automotive industry products so far, the major manufacturers of safety measures are basically the same, but the value orientation of the publicity is different, to know that there is no absolute safety in the world, there is no so-called accident zero death, and blindly flaunting themselves with safety is just a cover-up! But in short, I still believe that with the progress of the times and science and technology, we can finally get infinitely close to the myth in publicity... Of course, the premise is that you believe!