{"id":46094,"date":"2021-02-17T14:52:53","date_gmt":"2021-02-17T12:52:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themotorist.co.za\/?p=46094"},"modified":"2021-02-17T14:53:03","modified_gmt":"2021-02-17T12:53:03","slug":"the-swedes-are-on-a-roll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.themotoristold.co.za\/wp\/2021\/02\/17\/the-swedes-are-on-a-roll\/","title":{"rendered":"The Swedes Are On A Roll!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Volvo reports best January in its\nhistory<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Volvo is often considered the\nalternative premium marque to the likes of BMW, Mercedes-Benz and Audi. But with\nthe latest sales results, that could be turning around!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Starting 2021 on a strong note, Volvo\nCars reported the best January in its history. Global sales rose by 30.2\npercent to 59 588 cars, boosted by a strong year-on-year performance in China\nwhere the company more than recovered losses from earlier COVID-19 shutdowns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Demand for Volvo Cars\u2019 SUV line-up\nremained strong and represented 71 percent of overall volumes, while the\npopularity of its Recharge line-up of chargeable cars continued to grow. The\nvolume of Recharge models more than doubled in January year-on-year, now\naccounting for 23 percent of all Volvo cars sold globally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In China, sales grew by 91.3 percent to\n19 160 cars in January, as Volvo Cars\u2019 biggest market more than recovered from\na pandemic-related sales drop in the first month of last year. The sales\nincrease in China was helped by strong overall market demand, but also boosted\nby a sales ramp-up of the company\u2019s XC40 compact SUV and the S60 sedan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

US sales reached 8 151 cars in January,\nan increase of 32.4 percent compared with the same period last year. The\ncompany\u2019s award-winning SUV line-up, led by the XC90, drove the strong sales\nincrease.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

European sales for the month increased\nby 9.0 percent to 24 857 cars sold, helped by strong performances in key\nmarkets such as Sweden, Germany and the Netherlands. Recharge cars amounted to\n41 percent of total European sales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

South African sales were strong too. According to Greg Maruszewski,<\/a> managing director of Volvo Car South Africa<\/a>, the XC40 was the star of the show.\n\u201cSales rose by 37 percent in January 2021 (versus<\/p>\n\n\n\n

January 2020). This is encouraging\ngiven the fact that the XC40 had a good 2020; it had an 8.40% share of its\nsegment in 2019; that grew to 14.70% in 2020,\u201d he reveals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In January 2021, globally the XC40 was\nthe company\u2019s top selling model with 17 770 cars (2020: 10 802 units), followed\nby the XC60 with 17 053 cars (2020: 13 353 units) and the XC90 with sales of 7\n564 cars (2020: 6 902 units).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maruszewski says that 2020 was a landmark year for Volvo. \u201cOn a global front,\nwe introduced our first all-electric car, the XC40 Recharge Pure Electric,\nwhich will come to South Africa soon. Our plug-in hybrid line-up range also\nenjoyed growth. We\u2019re facing 2021 with optimism and we look forward to\ncontinuing to meet our customers\u2019 ever-evolving needs,\u201d he concludes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Volvo reports best January in its history Volvo is often considered the alternative premium marque to the likes of BMW, Mercedes-Benz and Audi. But with the latest sales results, that could be turning around! Starting 2021 on a strong note, Volvo Cars reported the best January in its history. Global sales rose by 30.2 percent… Continue reading The Swedes Are On A Roll!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":46127,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themotoristold.co.za\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46094"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themotoristold.co.za\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themotoristold.co.za\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themotoristold.co.za\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themotoristold.co.za\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46094"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.themotoristold.co.za\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46094\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46140,"href":"https:\/\/www.themotoristold.co.za\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46094\/revisions\/46140"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themotoristold.co.za\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themotoristold.co.za\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themotoristold.co.za\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themotoristold.co.za\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}