The Volvo Concept C, first teased in a set of images released this week, will have its debut at the Frankfurt motor show next month.

 

The Volvo Concept Coupe is the first Volvo to be penned by design chief Thomas Ingenlath, who arrived at the firm last year. It is underpinned by Volvo’s versatile new Scalable Product Architecture (SPA) platform, and powered by one of the firm’s new Drive-E four-cylinder petrol engines mated to a hybrid system for performance equivalent to a V8.

 

The SPA will first appear on a production car next year with the all-new XC90. But Volvo has chosen to preview the architecture on a coupe to showcase its versatility, and how it has ìliberated designers and engineers from the limitations of previous cross-brand platformsî, a reference to Volvo’s current Ford-derived underpinnings.

 

'The Volvo Concept Coupe is no futuristic dream car,' said Ingenlath. 'It is designed to demonstrate the capability of our new architecture: the confident stance, the proportions and the most prominent design signatures.