Volvo Cars
This is the catalogue record of the Volvo XC40, one of 83 models Volvo Cars has placed in the historical record and one of more than seventeen thousand cars the MotorJury library tracks. The record places its introduction in 2017. The photography on this page is hotlinked from Wikimedia Commons under an open licence, with the photographer credited on every frame.
To read the Volvo XC40 properly it helps to place it in its decade. The 2010s were the decade electrification stopped being a science project — Tesla forced the incumbents' hand, downsized turbo engines replaced displacement, and the crossover conquered every market. 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 Tesla Tesla Model 3, the Chevrolet Chevrolet Bolt, the Chevrolet Chevrolet Camaro — the cars a buyer of the period would actually have cross-shopped.
On paper, the Volvo XC40 reads like this: the record lists its engine as Petrol engine / Petrol: / 1.5 L Volvo Engine Architecture#B3154T5 / B3154 Straight-three engine / I3 Turbocharger / turbo / 2.0 L B4204 Straight-four engine / I4 turbo / Petrol eng; kerb weight is recorded at 1497 -; drive goes through 6-speed M76 manual transmission / manual / 7-speed 7DCT DCT / 8-speed AWF8F35 / AW TG-81SC automatic transmission / automatic / Single-speed automatic (EV); the layout is Front-engine, front-wheel-drive / Front-engine, all-wheel-drive / Front-motor, front-wheel-drive (EV, 2018–23) / Rear-motor, rear-wheel-drive (EV, 2023–present) / Dual-motor, all-w. 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.
Within Volvo Cars's own catalogue the Volvo XC40 sits alongside the Volvo 140 Series (1966), the Volvo 142, the Volvo 145 (1967), the Volvo 164. Design is credited to Ian Kettle / Thomas Ingenlath / Katharina Sachs (C40/EC40). Assembly is recorded at Belgium: Ghent (Volvo Car Gent / VCG) / China: Luqiao, Zhejiang (List of Volvo Car production plants / Luqiao CMA Super Factory) / Malaysia: Shah Alam (Volvo Car Manufacturing Mala.
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