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Originally Posted by DuSh
Volvo owned by some Chinese company afaik. Does this mean they both skipped on paying big bucks to designers and just copied ideas from x5  |
Actually, it's opposite.
Chinese company just poured money in to Volvo and said "do something different and sell more cars". So China's involvement is only on the finance dept, rest (as far as I know) was still up to Volvo to design, and I think it could have gone a lot worse. I was under impression that Volvo was a Chinese brand now, but no, XC90 was designed by German and Swedish designers, assembled in Sweden and Malaysia. I don't really know where the engine and transmission is from, might be worth looking up.
About Jaguar, I didn't look into it, since I would get another one of the 10s of other better SUVs if I wasn't considering a 3rd row.