Volvo releases first photos of the next Volvo S60, resembles S60 Concept

November 10, 11:01 PMAuto Review ExaminerJohn Matras

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When we saw the Volvo S60 Concept at the Detroit Auto Show last January, we proclaimed it production-ready. And with the release of the first official photographs of the second generation Volvo S60, we can proclaim that we got it right.

The new Volvo S60 will debut in the metal at the Geneva Auto Show in early March,2010, but the photos show that the production contours are very close to the concept's double-wave shoulder line and the grille and front end is more daring and closer to the production model than we could have hoped.

We think Volvo got it right, too, and we're even willing to reprint the quote from Stephen Odell, president and CEO of Volvo Cars:

"The all-new Volvo S60 is sculpted to move you. It looks and drives like no other Volvo before and the car's technology will help you to be safer and more confident behind the wheel."

Odell's reference to safer includes those around as well as inside the new Volvo S60. Volvo announced that the Volvo S60 will have Pedestrian Detection as an option. Pedestrian Detection can, as the name suggests, detect pedestrians in front of the car, and then applies the brakes automatically if the driver does not react in time.

Volvo didn't release a rear view of the new production S60, but with the rest of the production model looking so much like the concept, we would be surprised if the production S60 rear didn't look like the concept. The doors of the Volvo S60 Concept have been, as we predicted, changed to conventional front hinged for the production model.

For another angle on new Volvo S60 and a look back at the Volvo S60 concept from the Detroit Auto Show, view the picture gallery below. Production of the Volvo S60 will start in early summer 2010 at the Volvo Cars plant in Ghent, Belgium. On sale date in the U.S. will be late summer as a 2011 model.

Illustration: 2011 Volvo S60. Photo credit Volvo.

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