Volvo India starts local assembly of XC90

Volvo Cars has rolled out its first assembled car, the XC90 today from its plant in Bengaluru, Karnataka. Volvo announced in May that it would start local assembly operations in India in 2017.

The assembly operations is located near Bengaluru and will focus on models based on Volvo’s SPA modular vehicle architecture. Apart from the XC90 more models on the SPA architecture are slated for local assembly and an announcement on the same will happen at a later stage.

Volvo has teamed up with Volvo Group India — the truck, bus, construction equipment and Penta engines manufacturer for its assembly operations and is making use of Volvo Group India’s existing infrastructure and production licenses near Bengaluru.

With the local manufacturing, Volvo hopes to gain 10% market share by 2020.