Most XC40s in the USA have been leased (either through a standard lease or through Care By Volvo), so we've seen relatively few of these cars appear on the used market.
#Volvo crossover launch drivers#
A spokesperson for Volvo Australia told The Driven that cars will arrive in September, and that drivers will start. Īlso new with the XC40 was Volvo's " Care By Volvo" all-in-one lease program, bundling the car's lease fees, insurance, repairs, and even maintenance and tire replacements in to one subscription package. The first new Volvo C40 electric crossovers will start to arrive towards the end of the first quarter, as the Swedish carmaker prepares to launch its second all-electric vehicle by the start of the fourth quarter.
New Volvo small-car architecture to spawn XC40 crossover ahead of. This new CUV, the XC40, launched in the USA using Volvo's by now ubiquitous " VEA" ( also sometimes badged " DRIVe ", pronounced "drive eee") 4-cylinder turbo and Aisin-Warner TG-81 8-speed automatic powertrain, but also appeared as Volvo's first all-electric model for general sale: the 200-mile-range, AWD, 400hp Recharge. Volvo pushes Australian XC40 EV launch back to 2021, plug-in hybrid to come first. As with the SPA platform, CMA (also called the P6 platform) was developed with an eye towards electrification, with built-in support for either internal combustion engines and fuel tanks or electric motors and battery packs. Vehicles like the BMW X1 and Range Rover Evoque took advantage of this demand and racked up huge sales.Īfter the launch of its larger, SPA-platform based XC90 and XC60 siblings, Volvo turned to their new global compact architecture, CMA, to break in to the CUV market. As the Volvo brand moved more and more upmarket during the 2010s, its smaller cars, the P1 platform C30, S40, and V50, all completed their production runs in without obvious replacements the V50's compact wagon replacement, the V40, never made it to the USA.Ĭhanging consumer tastes throughout the same period showed declining interest in small premium cars, but increasing interest in premium compact crossover SUVs, or " CUVs", with similar footprints and equipment levels as premium compacts, but a taller seating position and AWD.
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