Volvo S60 dropped from UK mannequin line-up – low gross sales?

Volvo has eliminated the S60 sedan from its mannequin line-up for the UK, Autocar has reported. “We’re frequently re-evaluating our product portfolio and as a part of this course of, have quickly eliminated the S60 from sale within the UK,” a Volvo spokesperson instructed the journal.

The way forward for the S60 – in addition to the V60 – could possibly be unsure, on condition that Volvo has aimed to go absolutely electrical by 2030. The V60 station wagon that share the S60’s platform and powertrain decisions stays on sale for the UK market, together with the S90 sedan and V90 station wagon.

Past the product portfolio re-evaluation, one more reason for the S60’s elimination from the model’s UK vary could possibly be its low gross sales efficiency, famous Autocar.

Gross sales figures launched by Jato Dynamics, which mixes each the S60 and V60 as one mannequin, revealed that these have sustained a 51% drop in registrations up to now this 12 months, all the way down to 16,797 items in comparison with final 12 months, which is the largest quantity drop within the Volvo line-up, the journal wrote, and the S60 is assumed to account for the a lot of the drop on condition that the V60 stays on sale.

Earlier this 12 months, the 2023 Volvo S60 and V60 have been unveiled, bringing a revised specs checklist and the plug-in hybrid variants obtained a bigger capability battery for as much as 90 km EV vary.

The 2023 V60 arrived in Malaysia final week solely because the Recharge T8 Final priced from RM322k, changing the earlier Recharge T8 Inscrption. These upgrades introduced mixed outputs of 462 PS and 709 Nm from a 2.0 litre turbocharged four-cylinder petrol engine making 317 PS and 400 Nm, mixed with a 145 PS/309 Nm electrical motor on the rear axle.

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