The secret Swede

1 March 2017

In Geneva, Volvo introduced the second generation of the XC60 crossover.

All in anticipation of Geneva. And one of reasons – this is the new Volvo XC60. The model on which the firm has high hopes and through which is going to get close to his two main goals: the creation of fully Autonomous cars on the roads to 2021, and also zero percent of deaths or serious injuries in Volvo vehicles to 2020. Napoleonic plans, but looking at how are the Swedes, doubt that they will succeed disappear by themselves.

So, on 7 March, Geneva will see the second generation of the world bestseller, which will have three new advanced functions for active safety systems of the vehicle, which will provide assistance to the driver steering or automatic braking in case of need.

Already well-known City Safety has received a small upgrade that allows you to interfere with the steering control if the brake is not helps to avoid collision with another vehicle, pedestrian or animal. "Assistant" active steering available on speeds from 50 – 100 km/h.
The car is complemented by an oncoming Lane Mitigation system that returns the car back on the original lane if the driver for some reason left direction. System working on the 60 – 100 km/h.

And complements all the active safety system, which is responsible for a blind spot monitoring Blind Spot Information System. Along with alerting the driver about the presence of a vehicle located in the blind zone, the updated system can return the car in its lane.

On the XC60 have high expectations. With this model in Volvo want to break the record of worldwide sales and to achieve the volume of 800 thousand cars to 2020. To the way, in the XC60 last year accounted for 30% of sales.
Based on 60-series laid the scalable product architecture (SPA), which was applied on the XC90 and has earned worldwide recognition and several awards.