Volvo XC30 2013: It was very predictable

All brands of luxury vehicles will offer in the next two years, a luxury SUV compact size.

After breakfast and the future Audi Q3 compact SUV from Mercedes-Benz, Volvo here seriously considering to offer in 2013, its first compact SUV that would be called XC30.

As its name suggests, so it will be a vehicle designed and developed around the platform used for the next generation of cutting C30. However, it will be preceded, for next year, a five-door hatchback version of the Volvo C30, which would logically called V30.

Very recently, the Swedish manufacturer announced the death in North American soil models S40 and V50 due to the decline in sales of these in America.

So here two models that will be quickly replaced, initially by the Volvo V30 five-door hatchback has a which will be added, 12 months later, the compact SUV XC30.

With a length that oscillate around 4,400 mm, it would be in the presence of a vehicle whose dimensions are equivalent or nearly the Volkswagen Tiguan and Audi Q3 has come.

It can also be expected that the silhouette of the XC30 resume features of its big brother, the XC60, but in a slightly reduced format.