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Description
It’s becoming rarer and rarer to find a vehicle with more than four cylinders under the hood. While it feels like smaller engines are being forced upon us as government fuel-economy regs become tighter and tighter, Volvo is coming at it with a different attitude: it doesn’t matter how many cylinders there are.