Volvo Cars wants to make sure that its next models will gratify the local tastes of the Chinese market and to achieve this, it will hire a team of designers in China. Design chief Peter Horbury said that there is a research center being set up in Shanghai's Jiading district that will be where these designers will be working.
Per-Ake Froberg, a Volvo spokesman, said that Volvo's next model will be in the premium compact segment. This model planned for 2012 is co-designed by Horbury and predecessor Stephen Mattin.
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