It’s important to make allowances for automobile lovers. We have now our bizarre affections.
One constant love is Volvo wagons. So many people discovered to drive in a traditional boxy Swedish longroof with ladder-frame headrests you could’t deliver 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 vehicles anymore (although they’ll promote you one with an inline-6). Hummers are electrical now. Jeep sells $120,000 autos. And Volvo? Volvo may cease making wagons.
The information comes from the U.Okay.’s Autocar, which interviewed Volvo CEO Jim Rowan.
When Autocar requested him if Volvo may abandon wagons quickly, he answered, “Yeah, as a result of I feel it’s modified, proper? SUVs have modified with trip peak.”
The change may come as a result of Volvo consumers have modified, Rowan stated. “One of many issues that modified through the years is the choice makers of shopping for a Volvo automobile over-indexes to ladies, as a result of they like a better trip peak.”
The model canceled its bizarre V90 wagon in 2021 however saved 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.