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Written by Jack Rix
Who"d be a hatchback, ey? One day you"re soup de jour, the next you"re being shunned in favour of fancy new SUV-shaped things. If this troubles you as much as us, please direct your anger towards Volvo who is planning to replace the V40 hatchback with something a little more of the moment a little more BMW X2, to compliment the X1-rivalling XC40. Still with us? Excellent. "We won"t do a one to one replacement for the V40, we need to be more creative than that," Lex Kerssemakers, Volvo"s senior vice president told us. "Do not underestimate how appealing a high seating position is to customers." But there is another, more pressing reason why high-riding cars make sense right now. "You can"t launch a new car now that"s not EV ready," says Lex. "With a low-riding car like a hatchback the question is where do you put the batteries? You can"t add to the length or the width or you start bumping into the segment above, so if you put them under the floor, you quickly end up with something raised like an SUV."
Date written: 17 Jan 2019
More of this article on the Top gear website
ID: 14576
Who"d be a hatchback, ey? One day you"re soup de jour, the next you"re being shunned in favour of fancy new SUV-shaped things. If this troubles you as much as us, please direct your anger towards Volvo who is planning to replace the V40 hatchback with something a little more of the moment a little more BMW X2, to compliment the X1-rivalling XC40. Still with us? Excellent. "We won"t do a one to one replacement for the V40, we need to be more creative than that," Lex Kerssemakers, Volvo"s senior vice president told us. "Do not underestimate how appealing a high seating position is to customers." But there is another, more pressing reason why high-riding cars make sense right now. "You can"t launch a new car now that"s not EV ready," says Lex. "With a low-riding car like a hatchback the question is where do you put the batteries? You can"t add to the length or the width or you start bumping into the segment above, so if you put them under the floor, you quickly end up with something raised like an SUV."
Date written: 17 Jan 2019
More of this article on the Top gear website
ID: 14576
