The 248-hp version of that mill, baptised the T5, was initially the only unit available to power the XC40. Volvo wanted to simplify things for us consumers, by creating the impression there would now only be a 2.0L 4-cylinder turbo engine lurking under its vehicles’ hoods. See also: Our review of the 2020 Volvo XC90 T8. The SUV’s second generation launched in 2015 on the SPA (Scalable Product Architecture) platform, which would spread to the S90, XC60, S60, V60 and Polestar 1. Its initial platform was the P2, the same that underpinned the S60, V70 and S80 models of the time. The CMA platform has been used for the Polestar 2, and for the first vehicles produced by Lynk & Co, a new brand started by Geely.įor its part, the XC90 has been at it since 2002. It was also the very first 5-door luxury compact SUV in Volvo’s history.
This was a new unibody platform for midsize vehicles developed conjointly by Volvo and Geely, the Chinese auto giant that swallowed up the Swedish company in 2010.Īs it happens, the XC40, unveiled in September 2017 (and presented at the Montreal Auto Show in January 2018) was the first vehicle developed using the CMA platform.
And so it was that in 2017 the automaker inaugurated the CMA (Compact Modular Architecture) platform. Forget structure, at Volvo the preferred term is platform, a trendier way to designate the skeleton of a vehicle.