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Volvo crossover vehicles5/27/2023 ![]() It can accommodate four-cylinder engines (currently Volvo’s only internal combustion power source up to the 90 series) and forthcoming three-cylinders. Like the Scalable Product Architecture (SPA) under the recently launched S90, XC90 and XC60, CMA can be adjusted in any direction or dimension except the distance between the front axle and dash crossbeam (crucial for crash protection, and home to much of the powertrain). The XC40 is the first vehicle built on Volvo’s new Compact Modular Architecture (CMA). Those incremental dimensional increases translate to a bit more interior volume, and cargo space, and they inch the XC40 closer to compact-class SUVs like the Q5, X3 and GLC. I can’t speak for 30- or 35-year-olds, but to this late boomer it seems Volvo has dropped itself squarely among the best little luxury-brand SUV/crossover things going.Īt 174 inches in length, on a wheelbase of 106.4, the XC40 is an inch or two larger by most exterior dimensions than the Audi Q3, BMW X1 or Mercedes GLA-vehicles Volvo considers the XC40’s primary competitors. The harder part is making a little SUV/crossover thing a Volvo, and making Volvo a relevant brand to younger buyers driving the sale of such vehicles-buyers who will still be purchasing some sort of new car three or four decades after old-time, boomer-generation Volvo loyalists are dead.īased on a bit of wheel time in the new XC40, Volvo’s solution seems fairly straightforward: Start by getting the basics right, in a space-efficient package that can be considered high-value as luxury brands go, and throw in a Scandinavian design aesthetic. ![]() The 2019 XC40 SUV/crossover drops Volvo into the fastest growing slice of the luxury-brand sales pie.
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