40 series comes to Volvo and SUV ago. The new Volvo XC40 will be released before the end of the year with big ambitions. At the moment, you can see rolling across Spain. So is…

recent Volvo revolution It has articulated on the modular platform SPA to serve the medium and large models Volvo: first on line 90 (with the XC90 and S90 / V90), and then 60, with the recently launched SUV XC60 we have already tested. Now it’s time for this philosophy reaches the smallest segment, the line 40.

The premiere will be and, of course, shaped SUV Volvo XC40 with the new. And also it serves to present at the same time new platform which responds to the name CMA (Compact modular architecture, in English). It is also a modular basis, with the only obligation to structurally maintain a small part of the platform, immediately subsequent to the front axle and to the boot interior. The other measures are flexible to give freedom to the designers and engineers to generate very different silhouettes. And as you can imagine, this little platform Volvo You will be ready for receiving batteries to support the plug hybridization and in this case, proposed 100 percent eleto.

Volvo XC40 arrives in the 2017

What if, before the end of the year we will know definitely the new Volvo XC40 which so much it is being talked about for months. Before the end of summer must have completed their test test: he has been surprised by the car in Germany and Sweden, and He is now rolling around Granada as you can see in the video we insert below. It will enter full to compete in compact SUV territory with BMW X1, GLA Mercedes, Audi Q3 and Range Rover Evoque, always in the vicinity of the 4.4 meters of length. In addition we anticipate the way for S40 and V40 future, this innovative process because so far premiered conventional body before it reached the mandatory SUV. Not today.

The front of the new Volvo XC40 will ring you well known, with a grill black background and silver vertical bars that run through the front shield accompanying compulsory diagonal strip. The light language, the name of Thor’s hammer, but with a stylized and very horizontal headlights to stretch the car in the front view.

T5 born Plug-in

It has not yet arrived but Volvo has been announcing it for some time: his single bet on four-cylinder engines, Eliminating larger configurations in their upper and middle ranges, will be the axis for Volvo XC40… although as well they make their debut associated with this silhouette the three-cylinder Volvo. And just so above the plug hybridization name comes under T8, here it will be T5 to recognize motor combination 1.5 Turbo petrol and three cylinders, with an engine Power 50 kW (68 hp) And a transmission Automatic dual-clutch 7 relations. The battery will power the electric motor will have a capacity of 9.7 kWh, which should be guaranteed a autonomy of 50 km in electric mode.

But this new 3-cylinder engine will also conventional gasoline mode and with different power levels. Not long ago, Peter Mertens, Volvo Development Manager, stated that “with this engine We can reach the 150 CV, and it works so well that nobody would say that is a three-cylinder “. And remember that this proposed three-cylinder will also be used, like CMA platform, brand Lynk & Co, it should also commercially start next year and in 2018. But the four-cylinder will continue to help, especially in the section with a Diesel version D2 120 hp, a D3 150 and a D4 190 hp, and gasoline to close the range above. The most powerful version, logically, may use four-wheel drive.

Inside, the Volvo XC40 will have a very similar to his older brother XC60 design, but somewhat simplified controls. To highlight how not to its large touch screen panel and its many features in security systems, connectivity and infotainment. An SUV that really impress.

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