VOLVO V40 · 2.0 Europa Sports · Wagon · 2001 ‐ 2002

From 2001 Volvo began manufacture of automobiles type V40, modification of 2.0 Europa Sports and closed it in 2002. This car has 5 doors, the body chassis is shaped like a wagon, weight 1.3 tons and length 4.5 meters, which can seat 5 men total.

«V40 2.0 Europa Sports» is a front-wheel drive car with a 5-speed manual gearbox. 4-cylinders petrol engine with «multipoint injection fuel system» can produce output 136 horsepower at 5800 rmp, which allows you to speed up the vehicle in 9.7 seconds to 100 km/h and achieve maximum speed of 205 km/h.

Gas tank capacity of this vehicle is 60 l of petrol, therefore when average fuel consumption is 8.3 liters per 100 km (6.3 l on the highway, 11.8 l in the urban), accordingly allow you to go approximately 723 kilometers unrefuelled.

The front wheels of this car have ventilated disks, 256 mm brakes and attached to the chassis by dint of suspension type «MacPherson, independent, coil springs» and equipped anti-roll bar. Rearward wheels have disks, 260 mm brakes and attached to the underframe through suspension «Multilink, coil springs» and equipped stabilizer bar. Tires have the next measure - 205/60R15.

In accordance with the information of Euro NCAP crash test, this model of Volvo V40 got the many quantity of stars - four, which indicates that it is a reasonably safe vehicle. Furthermore to passive safety features (head/curtain, driver, passenger, side airbags), it is also has active systems of safety such as ABS, EBD.