From smooth lease box to economical occasion?
The Volvo V40 is truly a people’s Volvo. After the introduction of the new model in 2012, sales figures quickly went through the roof. In 2013, 2014 and 2015, the brand sold more than 10,000 of them in the Netherlands every year, with 12,310 copies in 2013 as a record. Tax-friendly diesels gave the model a big push, although it was of course also available with petrol engines. The last new V40s rolled off the production line in 2020, but all those copies have not suddenly disappeared. That’s why, especially for used car buyers: that’s how economical the Volvo V40 is.
The engine range of the Volvo V40 is not very clear. Until mid-2015 the petrol versions T2, T3 and T4 were equipped with Ford’s 1.6 EcoBoost turbo engine, after which they received different power variants of Volvo’s own engines. Extra confusing is that the cars with automatic transmission have the 1.5 three-cylinder and cars with a manual gearbox a 2.0 four-cylinder. Because manual transmission cars appear more often in the Consumption Monitor, we focus on them. Volvo also performed a switch trick with the diesels in 2015, but more on that later.
Consumption Volvo V40 T3 gasoline
The Volvo V40 in T3 version is the most common petrol V40 in the AutoWeek Consumption Monitor. We can therefore give the best indication of this. With the ‘old’ V40 T3 with Ford engine, owners drive an average of 1 in 14.6 (6.9 l/100 km), with the tire width being between 1 in 16.2 (6.2 l/100 km) and 1 at 13.5 (7.4 l/100 km).
With the new Volvo V40 T3, owners drive an average of 1 in 14.3 (7.0 l / 100 km). The most favorable value is 1 in 15.8 (6.3 l/100 km) and the least economical driver who drove a longer distance drove 1 in 12 (8.3 l/100 km). It should be noted that this is a V40 Cross Country, a slightly higher model.
Consumption V40 D2 and D4 diesel
As written, Volvo followed the same policy for the diesel engines. In 2015, Peugeot said goodbye to diesels in favor of its own engines. That’s why we’re looking at both the pre-2015 and 2015 and later D2 diesels. With the ‘old’ V40 D2, 45 owners drive an average of 1 to 19.8 (5.1 l/100 km). The most favorable consumption is 1 in 24.6 (4.06 l/100 km), at the bottom dangles a D2 R-Design with an average of 1 in 16.8 (6 l/100 km). Few figures are available for the new D2, but with 1 in 19.8, the average practical consumption is the same.
Buyers pay a small price for the extra power of the Volvo V40 D4. With the variant before 2015, they drive an average of 1 to 18.6 (5.4 l/100 km), after that there are too few figures available for a clear conclusion.
It is clear, however, that the Ford engine and the later Volvo engines differ little in practice if we focus purely on consumption. Which one you buy as a second-hand car probably has hardly any influence on the number of refuelings. The influence of the engine change also seems limited for the diesels.
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– Thanks for information from Autoweek.nl