The Volvo V40 is a 5-door hatchback from Volvo, built from 2012 to 2019, as electrification stopped being an experiment and the crossover took every market. Under the bonnet: 2012–2015. Peter Horbury / Chris Benjamin / Pontus Fontaeus drew it.
How it came about
The Volvo V40 is a small family car (C-segment in Europe) manufactured and marketed by Volvo Cars from 2012 to 2019. It was unveiled at the 2012 Geneva Motor Show, and was on sale in Europe between 2012 and 2019.
The hardware
Power comes from 2012–2015; other versions carried different engines, listed in the specification table below. It weighs 1357 -. It shifts through a 6-speed Getrag B6 Manual transmission / manual / 6-speed Volvo M66 Manual transmission / manual / 6-speed Ford PowerShift transmission / Powershift / 6-speed Aisin Seiki / Aisin TF. The layout matters: the engine drives the front wheels, the packaging choice that gives a small car a big cabin. The wheelbase is 2647 mm. These are manufacturer figures carried by Wikipedia and Wikidata, not road-test measurements.
Family and rivals
Its family tree is legible: it took over from the Volvo C30 / Volvo S40 / Volvo V50; assembly was at Ghent (Volvo Car Gent. Its contemporaries in the catalogue — the Peugeot 208, the Tesla Model X, the Mazda CX-5 — show what else the money bought that year. Its Volvo stablemates include the Volvo 144 and the Volvo 264 TE.