#VOLVO CROSSOVER SUV FULL#

In electric form it has that grille blank so many have adopted these days and which has not found any favour in this quarter, believing as we do, that this form of design is as unimaginative as it is unattractive. It is a stumpy looking thing, bless it, but endowed with enough character to make it appealing to the luxury buyer.

#VOLVO CROSSOVER SUV FULL#

We first saw the XC40 five years ago and it has gestated in that time from just having petrol/diesel options into a PHEV and, our tester this week, a full electric. There’s also opposition from supposedly non-luxury cars with such as the VW ID.4 and the closely related Skoda Enyaq still costing enough to put them close to the Volvo simply on price alone.īut this Volvo is set to be a growing electric army from the Sino/Swedish outfit and is actually made in China alongside the Polestar 2. On the all-electric front, the Volvo has also now got opposition like the Kia EV6 and the Ionic 5 from Hyundai and, of course, Tesla, which appears to be losing popularity quicker than a former American President with a funny orange coloured hue about him. There’s also an excellent 12.3” digital driver’s display.

In the case of this week’s tester, which is a Volvo XC40 Recharge, that means it is going in against any number of things from BMW, Audi, Mercedes, sister company Polestar, Jaguar and Lexus, among others.

In the luxury class it has lately swung from having a Tesla to owning something coming from a more established manufacturer. And, largely, it can be driven with great confidence that people will notice.Īfter all, that’s why so many people will fork out the bobs for such beasts – so folk will sit up and say: “Christ, yer man/woman has done well for him/herself.”īut you can never predict which way the fickle wind of taste will swing. A crossover SUV – luxury – therefore has to look just mildly embarrassed outside a cut-price supermarket, but perfectly comfortable in the owners’ car park at the hunt – perhaps even pulling a trailer containing a beast even larger than the driver.

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