The Volvo XC40 has been named the 2018 European Car of the Year, just a few months after the Swedish carmaker secured the 2017-2018 Japan Car of the Year award for the XC60. Volvo first revealed its compact SUV back in September last year, and more recently, gave it an update.
“Winning this award with our new XC40 is perfect timing. Volvo now has three globally available SUVs in its range for the first time. The XC40 will be a strong contributor to further growth, taking us into a new and fast-growing small SUV segment,” said Håkan Samuelsson, president and CEO of Volvo Cars.
The XC40 represents many firsts for Volvo, as it is the first model to ride on the company’s Compact Modular Architecture (CMA) that was co-developed together with Geely. Moreover, the SUV is the first to be offered via the Care by Volvo subscription service as well as a car-sharing feature.
According to Volvo, early orders for the model are now in excess of 20,000 cars across Europe and the United States. The XC40 will soon make its launch debut in China, where the company is expecting a similarly high level of interest. As for us here in Malaysia, we are expecting an introduction to take place by Q3 this year.
In order to take the top spot, the XC40 had to beat out other finalists that include the Alfa Romeo Stelvio, Audi A8, BMW 5 Series, Citroen C3 Aircross, Kia Stinger and Seat Ibiza.
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Volvo need to improve their interior, too uncle
Congrats VolvoGeely! From an ailing brand & now becoming Car of the Year. Thankyou Geely Chinas!
Cx3 is anytime more reliable and premium than this chinese car
CX 3 is a cheaper car .
Volvo is already premium long time ago and higher standard than Mazda image.
Reliability is much better than Mazda based on JD UK survey report 2018 which is top one tie with KIA
No doubt Volvo is own by Geely but the Volvo XC40 is built in Ghent, Belgium and the whole world know except Osaka Boy ( still leaving under the coconut tree).
Volvo technologies and engine outputs are way better than any CX3 .
Anyway , CX3 can only compare to VW , Honda HRV, Subaru XV ( all rung lower than Volvo )
Boyue is anytime more practical than Cx3
What about Audi Q5 make and built in Mexico?
So Audi Q5 is a Mexican car and it is
not reliable and poor quality then
Those BMW 3 series built in South African and so we say BMW 3 series is a African and is lousy and unreliable then.
Osaka Boy you are very stupid that what I can say
The Harrier’s cabin is uncle. The Volvo XC40’s cabin…are we even looking at the same thing?
correction, harrier’s cabin is grand uncle…
Must be one of those that can’t afford, and only heard from his uncle’s story kind of people
Tahniah VolvoGeely!
P1, Geely, Mesidis, VolvoCar, VolvoTruck, Lotus > all
Sell here under 120k.
What a joke, it’s totally irrelevant to Proton whatsoever.
Yeaaaaaaaa!
Volvo > all
This is China brains behind Volvo’s success. IF not for China’s brain, Volvo lingkup. This is why we need more Mainland people to help us build not only our car industry but also build up other areas of our country.
Hopefully we can learn how to be diligent and hard working like China
I couldn’t agree more than that anymore more.
nope, just like Tata pouring money into Jaguar Land Rover its similar thing with Volvo. Geely injected capital into Volvo and gave them the freedom to create the cars in terms of design and engineering aspects.
China as we all know lack the artistic dream to come out with a good design. look at Geely cars, they are modern but theres not much there. nothing new or special. the lines are ordinary and can be found on other cars as well.
Volvo designers are capable of doing so, just like Saab. just like JLR.
We should let Geely pump money and let Proton design their own as well just like Volvo. Wanna see the outcome?
Without China, Volvo is a dead brand, we really need them to build our broken nation
Huh? Really? Never knew Sweden was a broken nation…
try to improve your English john
Again I advice u read b4 bash lah.
No doubt Volvo needed China $$$ to be successful but Volvo is Swedish & its run by Swedish & its HQ is still in Sweden. In short, Volvo needed $$$ & brains to make it successful.
How does a car which is not even ‘on the road’ yet win awards?? Same goes to the oscars
Hehehe. U mean the Oscar is given to the winner B4 the movie are screen !!!
It’s already on the road in Europe bangang
Congratulation Volvo….. finally we have an award winning model from Volvo, the brand that always being associate with boring design. To me non of their models are boring be it 240, 740, 940 or even the latest XC/S/V models. It is about time people to appreciate Volvo, the brand that always put the safety of their customers first rather than the value of their cars. They always value life. Their design is all about life & surrounding. That’s make Volvo different than the rest.
Next award will be XC60, the top 2 highest score for World COTY 2017 beside Range Rover Velar.
Volvo, the emerging brand. Volvo for life.
Handsome car, as good-looking as a GLA; Countryman is still prettier.
Countryman is the ugliest actually !! compare to XC40 and GLA