It’s important to make allowances for automobile lovers. We now have our bizarre affections.
One constant love is Volvo wagons. So many people realized to drive in a traditional boxy Swedish longroof with ladder-frame headrests which you can’t convey the topic up at a gathering except you’re prepared to listen to lengthy tales.
[Editor’s note — Sean, you, too? No. An early Explorer. But I’ve been around enough to know.]
However a lot of the automotive world has modified. Dodge doesn’t make V8-powered muscle automobiles anymore (although they’ll promote you one with an inline-6). Hummers are electrical now. Jeep sells $120,000 autos. And Volvo? Volvo would possibly cease making wagons.
The information comes from the U.Okay.’s Autocar, which interviewed Volvo CEO Jim Rowan.
When Autocar requested him if Volvo might abandon wagons quickly, he answered, “Yeah, as a result of I believe it’s modified, proper? SUVs have modified with experience top.”
The change might come as a result of Volvo consumers have modified, Rowan mentioned. “One of many issues that modified over time is the choice makers of shopping for a Volvo automobile over-indexes to girls, as a result of they like a better experience top.”
The model canceled its strange V90 wagon in 2021 however stored the high-riding Cross Nation variant. It trimmed the V60 wagon’s lineup to only a Cross Nation model and a high-performance Polestar Engineered mannequin across the similar time. Final month, the Polestar model was retired, too.
V60 Cross Nation and V90 Cross Nation fashions stay at dealerships for now.
