After a lot of photos leaked on the net, Volvo decided to made an official announcement of the Volvo XC60 crossover which will make its world debut at the Geneva Motor Show. Fredrik Arp, Volvo Cars President and CEO said: “It’s not only the safest Volvo ever. If you ask me, it’s also the most stunning. Not a bad combination, is it?”. So, is he right or just talking big words?

As we already said, the car’s design is pretty cool, being close to the Volvo XC60 concept, presented last year at Detroit. Known as a producer that makes some of the safest cars out there, Volvo has equipped the XC60 with the latest safety technologies and the most important new feature is the City Safety system, which comes into action when the car is about to drive into the vehicle in front and the driver does not react, the car brakes itself.

As for the engines, the Volvo XC60 will be offered with three engines: the 285 hp turbocharged T6 and two versions of the D5 turbodiesel, producing 185 and 163 horsepower. All vehicles are fitted with All-Wheel-Drive (AWD) as standard. Next year, Volvo plans to introduce a front wheel version also, powered by a 163 hp Euro 5 diesel engine.

The Volvo XC60 will be built at the Volvo plant in Ghent, Belgium and sales will start during 2008’s second half (Europe) and early 2009 (US). Volvo hopes to sell over 50,000 units per year.

After the jump you can see more photos, a video of the XC60 and the full press release.

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Volvo planned to officially unveil their production-ready Volvo XC60 crossover on February 20, before its official debut at the Geneva Motor Show, which starts on March 4. But we all know that the Internet is an evil place and these leaked photo of the new SUV showed up on the web.

First revealed as the Volvo XC60 Concept at last year’s Detroit show, we can see that Volvo managed to keep the production-ready version’s design pretty close to the concept’s look, though the photos we have here are not the best. All the details we have so far are some rumors telling that the Volvo XC60 will hit showrooms sometime in the second half of 2008, but stay tuned, because as soon as we have some official info, we’ll let you know.

Check out the rest of the leaked photos after the jump.

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