If you've been keeping up with the Volvo Of Lisle blog recently, you've heard about all of the big changes coming to Volvo. Among many other exciting announcements Volvo made at the Frankfurt Motor Show, Volvo President and CEO, Stefan Jacoby, shared that within the next ten years, the Scandinavian automaker plans to remove all six- and eight-cylinder engines from their vehicle lineup in favor of highly-efficient four-cylinder engines.

Creating a more efficient car will be easy for Volvo, especially since they plan to do so on more efficient equipment. In the coming years, Volvo engineering will be centered around the Volvo Environmental Architecture (VEA) engine for both gas and diesel engines. The new, lighter engines will allow for more standardized parts across the Volvo lineup. In conjunction with this engine architecture change, Volvo's production will also reform under the new modular scalable platform architecture (SPA), which will allow 80-percent of the lineup to be built on the same production line, regardless of model size or complexity.

Also by 2020, Volvo plans to gain a large sector of the global luxury market, with a goal to double their annual sales (about 800,000 units).  According to Peter Mertens, Volvo R&D Boss, "Both our new architecture and the new engine range will enable us to be on par or even beat our toughest competitors in crucial areas such as driving dynamics and fuel economy."¹

Rumor has it that the first four-cylinder, turbocharged, direct-injected engine will replace the powerplant currently found in Volvo S80. Volvo's concept will weigh several hundred pounds less than the current large-model sedan, and should arrive on the market in 2014. Stayed tuned with Volvo Of Lisle, located at 4375 LINCOLN Ave, Lisle, IL, 60532. Our committed to bringing you the latest news and updates ensures you're among the first to know when Volvo's  latest in four-cylinder technology arrives in our showroom!

Source:¹http://www.autonews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20110917/ANE/110919865/1494