Volvo Euro Sales (By Model) : 2000-2019

Volvo cars arrived in 1927, the company ticking along nicely and in due course enjoyed considerable popularity in North America. It acquired the Dutch car brand DAF in the early 1970s and that was intergrated into the company with success.

It then lost ground and the Volvo Group decided to sell the automobile business and Ford took control in the year 2000, which is where our more detail coverage commences. I must say that I find the way Volvo classifies some of its cars muddled, as if to make the company appear it has more models than is the case.

2000-04. I guess what could be said for this period is registrations are consistent. The arrival of the XC90 SUV gave sales a modest upturn but apart from that, uneventful. Its share was at 1.5% and Sweden accounted for 50,000 sales per annum.

	Model / Year	2004	2003	2002	2001	2000
	40/50 Series	106,404	66,920	75,146	87,953	97,391
	80/70 Series	83,018	88,753	99,084	83,828	120,060
	60 Series	34,718	41,320	52,289	46,580	6,871
	XC90	32,032	17,983	1,143
	C70	2,571	3,359	4,029	5,295	6,490
	Others	245	6	127	28	167
	Total	258,988	218,341	231,818	223,684	230,979

2005-09. The small C30 3-door hatchback arrived but was poorly received while the XC60 SUV seemed to take sales off the larger XC90. Therefore, no progress was made and in fact 2009 was disappointing with Volvo's share down to 1.4%.

	Model / Year	2009	2008	2007	2006	2005
	40/50 Series	64,157	78,957	79,793	97,650	108,962
	80/70 Series	57,859	78,501	95,814	81,531	80,573
	XC60	39,852	5,842	11
	C30	22,554	26,146	36,225	1,573
	XC90	11,153	15,999	27,976	34,921	34,653
	60 Series	4,832	10,206	14,620	21,434	28,239
	C70	4,785	7,129	10,242	6,770	1,797
	Others	98	125	32	203	108
	Total	205,290	222,905	264,713	244,082	254,332

2010-14. In 2010, Ford sold the company to Chinese firm Geely. Registrations were fairly stable and the only change of note was the end of the C90. Market share touched 2% in 2014 and sales in Sweden were just over 60,000 units.

	Model / Year	2014	2013	2012	2011	2010
	40/50 Series	81,299	74,765	53,281	49,923	61,654
	XC60	62,968	46,270	46,148	50,668	44,565
	60 Series	54,673	53,776	59,170	68,077	15,026
	80/70 Series	48,956	43,639	49,476	54,275	64,396
	XC90	6,980	7,719	9,340	13,108	14,578
	C70	172	1,947	3,055	4,138	4,701
	C30	101	2,292	10,269	15,334	24,120
	Others	206	0	0	18	172
	Total	255,355	230,408	230,739	255,541	229,212

2015-19. The new XC90 came in 2015, likewise the second generation XC60 in 2017 and the new compact XC40 in 2018. This propelled sales to near 350,000 in 2019 and its share of Europe to 2.2%. This was achieved despite the fact that sales in Sweden peaked at 75,000 and dropped to 65,000 in 2019. After years of not going anywhere in particular was turned around in the last few years.

	Model / Year	2019	2018	2017	2016	2015
	XC40	84,189	47,696	117
	XC60	83,142	80,782	99,387	83,898	77,141
	60 Series	64,996	48,844	45,357	53,640	54,478
	40/50 Series	39,551	56,926	70,593	75,280	81,348
	90/80 Series	38,979	56,138	55,003	42,119	51,706
	XC90	29,248	30,731	30,171	36,442	20,633
	Others	57	109	70	246	0
	Total	340,162	321,226	300,698	291,625	285,306

Picture source: Netcarshow.

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The XC40, the model that helped Volvo come in from the cold