Volvo's little brown shooting brake may sprout into a full-blown luxury wagon. A rendering provided by Germany's Auto Bild shows what the Concept Estate would look like with two more doors and a roof rack.
Auto Bild says this new model will be designated V90, a short-lived moniker that adorned Volvo's top wagon in the 1997 and 1998 model years. The magazine says the V90, supposedly built off the next XC90 chassis, will debut in 2015 as the successor to the V70, the Volvo wagon without "XC" body cladding and off-road pretensions sold elsewhere in Europe. Likely, the Concept Estate won't be sold as-is, which is a shame but understandable given Volvo's quest for bigger sales.
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As Volvo has previously announced, all future models will see four cylinders and potential hybrid power. Auto Bild also mentioned the possibility of a subcompact V20 wagon to compete with the Audi A1 and Mini Countryman. Now that Volvo is letting Americans play with the V60 and the 350-hp V60 Polestar, adding more station wagons might not be the long shot it once seemed one or two years ago.
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