目前，沃尔沃XC40已经收到8万辆订单，为满足消费者对该车的强烈需求，沃尔沃除了增产别无他法。不过，沃尔沃表示，比利时根特和中国路桥工厂要等到明年上半年才能实现增产。由于老款S60和V60车型已经退出比利时根特工厂生产线，因此该厂有足够的空间提产量。新一代S60轿车将于今年夏季发布，作为首款不提供柴油引擎的轿车，S60将在美国工厂生产。而新一代V60旅行车将在瑞典托斯兰达工厂投产，但仍有部分车型将在根特工厂生产。XC40今年获评欧洲年度车型，该车是唯一一款基于CMA平台的车型，但沃尔沃表示，正在开发更多基于该平台的车型。据欧洲汽车新闻报道，沃尔沃发言人表示，V40掀背车将不会获得更新。这意味着V40将与V60和V90一样回归其旅行车的本源。另一款正在开发的车型是基于40.2概念车的S40轿车。

 

Volvo To Boost XC40 Production To Keep Up With Strong Demand

Having received nearly 80,000 orders already for its smallest crossover, Volvo has no other way but to bolster production of the XC40 to meet the strong customer demand. It’s not going to happen right away as the Geely-owned marque mentions it will ramp up production at the Ghent factory in Belgium and also at the Luqiao plant in China during the first half of 2019.

 

It will be possible to free up production capacity for the XC40 at the Ghent facility because the outgoing S60 and V60 models are exiting the assembly lines. Due to be revealed this summer and set to become Volvo’s first car to come without a diesel engine, the next-gen sedan will be manufactured at the firm’s new U.S. plant. As for the new wagon, it will be built at the Torslanda plant in Sweden, but some of the production output for the next-gen V60 will still come from Ghent.

 

The XC40 a.k.a. European Car of the Year is currently the sole member of the CMA-based compact car family, but Volvo says more are on the way. However, the V40 hatchback will not be renewed as per a statement made by a company spokeswoman in an interview with Automotive News Europe. That probably means the V40 will revert to its wagon origins to join the bigger V60 and V90. Another model in the pipeline is obviously a new S40 sedan previewed by the 40.2 concept.