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What happened in Sweden? Trump's world view and Volvo's globalised SUV

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Published Sun, Mar 12, 2017 · 09:50 PM

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VOLVO'S luxury XC90 SUV has a quintessentially Scandinavian design. But the cabling comes from Morocco, the catalysts from South Africa, the leather keys from Portugal and its plug-in hybrid batteries from South Korea.

Oh, and its owners are Chinese.

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