New Volvo XC60 helps drive Volvo sales UP by 22.4% in January

Volvo sales in the first month of 2018 have jumped by an impressive 22.4 per cent, helped by strong sales of the new XC60 and the 90 Series cars.

The big news from Volvo recently has been all about the impressive new XC40, and how Volvo has managed to deliver their first compact SUV to almost universal acclaim.

But the XC40 isn’t really figuring in Volvo’s sales yet – although it will, strongly, as 2018 unfolds – so posting sales up by an impressive 22.4 per cent is entirely down to Volvo’s existing range, including the new XC60.

Already the best-selling SUV in its category with the ageing, but still very good, previous generation, the new XC60 is beating even the sales of the XC60 Volvo was enjoying with the old model in 2017.

Add to that continuing strong sales from the XC90, S90 and V90 – all up in January – and of the long wheelbase S60L in China, as well as locally produced XC60s, and Volvo’s sales can only go one way in 2018.

And it looks like they’ll improve in all markets for Volvo, with the US posting sales up an impressive 60.5 per cent (although from a lowly 3,469 sales in January 2017), China up by 38 per cent and Europe up by 11.7 per cent.

And if winning coveted gongs translates in to sale, the new Volvo XC60 winning the US SUV of the Year award last month should translate in to even more sales for Volvo in North America.