Volvo C30

The Volvo C30 is one of 83 Volvo Cars models in the MotorJury library, the catalogue that sets out to hold every car ever made — production, prototype and concept alike. The record places its introduction in 2006. The photography on this page is hotlinked from Wikimedia Commons under an open licence, with the photographer credited on every frame.

The era it was born into

To read the Volvo C30 properly it helps to place it in its decade. The 2000s were the decade of electronics — stability control, dual-clutch gearboxes and the first serious hybrids arrived while platform-sharing consolidated the industry into a handful of giants. Any car launched into that world was shaped by it — by what materials, engineering and regulation allowed, and by what buyers of the day demanded. Its direct contemporaries in this catalogue, introduced within three years of it, include the Nissan Nissan Qashqai, the Audi AG Audi R8, the Audi AG Audi Q7 — the cars a buyer of the period would actually have cross-shopped.

The numbers, read closely

On paper, the Volvo C30 reads like this: the record lists its engine as Petrol engine / petrol: / 1.6 L Ford Motor Company / Ford Ford Sigma engine#Duratec / Duratec Straight-four engine / I4 / 1.8 L Mazda Mazda L engine#1.8 L (L8-DE, L8-VE) ; kerb weight is recorded at 1331 -; drive goes through 5-speed Getrag M56 Manual transmission / manual / 6-speed Getrag M66 manual / 5-speed Aisin Aisin AF33 transmission / AW55-50 Automatic transmission / automatic / 6-speed Aisin AWT; the layout is Front-engine, front-wheel-drive. Every figure above is a manufacturer specification carried by the Wikipedia infobox or the open Wikidata record for this model — nothing on this page is estimated, and where a source is silent the row simply does not appear. Production is recorded at 209,510 units, which makes it a solid production run.

Its place in the Volvo Cars story

Within Volvo Cars's own catalogue the Volvo C30 sits alongside the Volvo 140 Series (1966), the Volvo 142, the Volvo 145 (1967), the Volvo 164. The record names the Volvo 480 as its predecessor and the Volvo V40 II / Volvo EX30 as its successor, fixing its place in the model line's chronology. Design is credited to Simon Lamarre. Assembly is recorded at Belgium: Ghent (VCG).

How this catalogue works

This library is generated, verified and rebuilt from the open record on every deploy. The catalogue skeleton comes from Wikidata, specifications from Wikipedia's infoboxes under CC BY-SA, photography from Wikimedia Commons under each file's own licence, and the ownership data from United States federal safety records. Nothing is written by hand and nothing is invented: every fact on this page traces to a public source, and every page is rebuilt nightly as those sources improve. Errors in the source record will appear here too — and disappear the night the source is corrected.

From catalogue to ownership

What this page cannot yet tell you is what the Volvo C30 costs to live with — that is a different dataset. MotorJury's ownership verdicts are computed from federal complaint and recall records plus EPA economy data, published per model year as the nightly ingest reaches each car. If this model was sold in the United States, its years will surface in the ownership database; browse it live or price any car yourself with the true-cost calculator.