It looks like Volvo Cars Malaysia is gearing up to launch its next car – the Volvo S90 sedan. We first saw signs of this in June, where the S90 and its V90 wagon sibling appeared on the Volvo Cars Malaysia website.
This Volvo S90 was sighted by reader LimPeh28 in Section 15, Shah Alam. It wears European number plates, and a badge with the words ‘Test Vehicle’ can be found on the bottom of the front door.
This particular unit has a D4 badge on the boot lid, which means it is powered by a 190 horsepower 2.0 litre diesel engine. This is likely a unit brought in just for testing, as the D4 isn’t likely to be the variant launched here in Malaysia.
What we’re expected to get is the T8 Twin Engine plug-in hybrid variant, which we expect to be locally assembled just like its SUV sibling, the XC90. The T8 features a turbo- and supercharged petrol engine mated to a rear electric motor and an eight-speed automatic. Thus equipped, should be able to achieve Energy Efficient Vehicle (EEV) status and enjoy the same tax breaks as the CKD XC90 T8.
After all, the foundations for Scalable Platform Architecture (SPA) production are already in place, as Volvo has made huge investments to improve the the current infrastructure and capabilities of the Swedish Motor Assemblies plant in Shah Alam to handle the platform and the sophisticated powertrain.
As for specs, Volvo Cars Malaysia’s website mentions lane keeping aid, run-off road mitigation, pedestrian and large animal detection, and more.
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Volvo is leading the game now. Dwarfs the Jag, MB, BMW and Audi completely.
The power of China!! German take this!!
large animal detection? i prefer to get MO1 detection
Why waste money buying this S90? Go buy a Perdana for 1/3 the price. After all, our Ministers already said, Proton is FAR FAR FAR Better than BMW and Volvo.
According to our Cabinet, Proton is much higher quality than Volvo and BMW
Your jokes are boring nothing but Proton, proton, proton. If you like Proton so much might as well check out the Proton pages instead this page. Proton fanboys these days.
Mouth is just for sayin and talking crap, give yourself a minute to feel the quality first
You and your hatred towards Proton. If you don’t like Proton, don’t buy them. Fullstop. You don’t have to spill hatred on Proton in all PT posts. Grow up Kunta.
Kunta, you’re probably jealous cause you can’t afford this better car and all you do is nothing beneficial but to rant.
Beautiful Car. Nice to see Volvo producing desirable cars again. Love the rear look, very exclusive. I’ll have mine in the same Black Color please…
Albert now giveup hope to join P2. Alredi saw how much Persona2.0 and Saga3.0 will eat more into his nonexistent sales of his toyota junks. At least better than eating maggi everyday.
oh boy oh boy, can’t wait!
the rear lamp like honda civic…honda civic is copy from volvo s90?gov car should change to this s90…more high class,luxury and less maintenance…
So nice and sexy. Really handsome. Pricing below 400k
those rims looks terrible…
I don’t think we’ll get the T8 since even the UK only has D4 & D5 options.
Well, you could probably say the same for the XC90 as well, and yet we got it here.
Besides, diesel isn’t all that popular in Malaysia anyway. Given the recent emissions scandals surrounding Volkswagen AG and a few others, diesel’s not looking all that attractive anymore.
That is a Swedish number plate. I checked the plate, and it appears that it was registered on 20th June 2016. And indeed, it has a 140kW diesel engine.
Interestingly, it’s a right-hand drive unit… likely, this is a U.K.-spec S90.
Secretly, I’m hoping the new S90 will outsell its Teutonic rivals in Malaysia (like the old 240 did)… but that’s just my wishful thinking. haha But either way, it will probably sell well for VCM.
I totally agree. These times of revival are exciting. Volvo have really upped their game.
volvo needs to improve their marketing and advertisement for their cars here in malaysia. put more advertisement on TVs, newspapers, magazines etc. how to improve selling if people dont know about the cars?
You are wrong.
What are those factors retarding people from buying Volvos in Malaysia?
You go and find out the rest, I name you one: aftersales service.
Maybe you should start focus on how to make your aftersales service famous for its excellence.
Absolutely spot on. The aftersales service is beyond pathetic, service advisors are arrogant and uninformed. Troubleshooting is non-existent. If Volvo truly want to take on the Germans this would be where to start. After having Volvo’s for 30 years, the best the cars have performed is when they were kept out of the dealership in the hands of a knowledgeable independent mechanic. Most car owners will not persist under these circumstances, and neither should they have to.
this looks way better than the new e-class
Nice China car