Final chord is for XC90
A special milestone for Volvo: it has built its last passenger car with a diesel engine. The diesel story ends with a blue Volvo XC90.
Volvo announced about six months ago that it was discontinuing diesels worldwide. We are of course talking about Volvo Cars and its passenger cars, Volvo Trucks, which operates separately from Volvo Cars, continues with diesel trucks. Volvo’s first passenger car with a diesel engine, a 244 GL D6, rolled off the production line in 1979. Now, about 45 years later, it is over.
The last car is the blue Volvo XC90 in the photos. It was assembled in Torslanda, Sweden. At the beginning of February, the production of diesel Volvos in Ghent, Belgium, stopped. The bottom line there was a Volvo V60. Volvos with a diesel engine have not been available in the Netherlands for some time now. The last Volvos with self-igniter disappeared from the market here in 2020. Volvo announced in 2017 that it would no longer develop new diesels.
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