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Will Volvo do a V40 saloon?

  • 21-03-2014 8:48pm
    #1
    road_high
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,657 ✭✭✭✭


    Always loved the old S40 and was always popular.
    Look at the A3 saloon, I think Volvo are missing a trick not advancing a saloon version of the new V40. Especially in the premium sector it's not all about hatchbacks.


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  • #2
    bazz26
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 51,364 ✭✭✭✭bazz26


    I'd say they are keeping an eye on how sales of the A3 saloon go along with BMW.

    It's a little ironic that Volvo produced a small premium saloon for years when BMW and Audi offered hatchbacks, then Volvo replace it with a hatchback to be more competitive and now Audi introduce their small premium saloon.


  • #3
    Jesus.
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,794 ✭✭✭Jesus.


    To be honest, Audi always had a small premium saloon. It was called the A4. Its now called the A3. The other car has grown up and moved into the next segment up. It happens with an awful lot of models that start at the bottom rung. They become too big over time and and no longer compete in that class. Another car is then produced for the same consumer group that want something compact.


  • #4
    MuppetCheck
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,865 ✭✭✭✭MuppetCheck


    Except it hasn't. If I was paying the money for a fully specced one I'd buy the A4. Otherwise it's a Golf with a vastly inflated price and a bit extra sheet metal. Same trick is being done with the Octavia and that Rapid yoke. Seen in a few magazines them being tested against cars from a higher class. You'd only see it with VAG cars. Advertising spend is related to it imo.....


  • #5
    Stavros Murphy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,440 ✭✭✭Stavros Murphy


    road_high wrote: »
    Always loved the old S40 and was always popular.
    Look at the A3 saloon, I think Volvo are missing a trick not advancing a saloon version of the new V40. Especially in the premium sector it's not all about hatchbacks.

    Is V not the designation for estate models, S for saloon?


  • #6
    pablo128
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,219 ✭✭✭pablo128


    Stavros Murphy wrote: »
    Is V not the designation for estate models, S for saloon?
    It is.


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  • #7
    road_high
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,657 ✭✭✭✭road_high


    Stavros Murphy wrote: »
    Is V not the designation for estate models, S for saloon?

    Used to be. Appears to be dropped for the V40 hatch.


  • #8
    Stavros Murphy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,440 ✭✭✭Stavros Murphy


    road_high wrote: »
    Used to be. Appears to be dropped for the V40 hatch.

    Confusing Swedish feckers. Getting worse than BMW on that front. 316- 2.0L 318-2.0L...make yer minds up..


  • #9
    colm_mcm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73,523 ✭✭✭✭colm_mcm


    Stavros Murphy wrote: »
    Is V not the designation for estate models, S for saloon?

    V stands for versatile apparently.
    No idea what C or S are supposed to stand for. I would imagine its saloon and coupe/convertible


  • #10
    Stavros Murphy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,440 ✭✭✭Stavros Murphy


    colm_mcm wrote: »
    V stands for versatile apparently.
    No idea what C or S are supposed to stand for. I would imagine its saloon and coupe/convertible

    Sloopskverskasm or some such Nordish guff :D


  • #11
    bazz26
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 51,364 ✭✭✭✭bazz26


    I like the styling of the new V40, it's a breath of fresh air but it isn't cheap. The A3 styling is predicable and too similar to the previous model which was designed 11 years ago. And the 1 Series styling is ugly all day irrespective of which wheels drive it.

    All in my opinion of course.


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  • #12
    road_high
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,657 ✭✭✭✭road_high


    Reading Autocar there they are saying the V40 replacement in 2017 will host a range of versions in collaboration with Geely. Including a saloon.
    Pity they couldn't have done this with the current V40! If I was on the market for a small premium car I'd love a V40 but not a hatchback, I never got premium hatchbacks.


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