The all-new 2018 Volvo XC40 has been revealed, ahead of an Australian debut confirmed for the second quarter of next year.
It’s a badge that has been in the offing for more than five years, and now it’s official, with the 2018 XC40unveiled at a standalone event in Milan tonight.
The new small SUV joins the only recently revealed (and driven) new-gen XC60, and the big XC90, as the third model in the brand’s growing XC-badged SUV range.
We had our first official look at the new XC40 in May last year, with the unveiling of the XC40.1 – a concept whose name left little to the imagination. And, last week, an early leak confirmed the small SUV’s final design would not stray far from the look of its show-car progenitor.
Importantly for Volvo, the XC40 is the first model built on the Compact Modular Architecture (CMA) platform developed together with Chinese parent company Geely. CMA will underpin all 40-series models, including a number of full-electric variants.
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