2008 Volvo C30

The 2008 Volvo C30 is considered one of the smallest Volvo cars that were sold in the United States. The car is supposed to appeal to the young and hip who want to have a small car that is easy on gas, while still maintaining a sporty image. The C30 has been compared to other cars such as the Audi A3, the Mini Cooper, or the Volkswagen GTI. However, the C30 really is a car of its own since it does not have the four doors that the Audi A3 does, which is the most often the one that the C30 is compared to in terms of comparable performance.

Probably one of the biggest features about the C30 that may have helped the popularity of the car is that the car can be designed and tweaked to the drivers every need. For example, there are seventeen choices of colors that a person can choose for their C30. They can also choose other options such as technology that alerts the drive if a vehicle or someone is in their blind spot, as well as the colors of the interior. With the C30, Volvo really made the consumer the one who can control everything and have a car that is completely unique to their taste, something that not any other automaker was doing at the time, and it was something that consumers loved.

The C30 is basically the same as the S40, however, with a much smaller frame. The car was chopped down and lowered to the ground in order to give off a more sportier appearance, which did work. The wheel base was always widened slightly to give it more grip during the curves of the road. The cars are also mechanically the same. The C30 has a five cylinder engine that is enhanced with turbo giving it around 227 horsepower that can give a time of 6.2 seconds to go from zero to sixty, which is not too shabby for a small car. The top speed for the car is around 149 miles per hour, which may not seem like much for a performance car, however, for those trips that people would take in this, it is plenty of speed. The steering of the car is something that gets a lot of attention from the professional world simply because it is effortlessly, however, not so easy that you have to be extremely careful.

Overall, the reason that the C30 was so popular in 2008 was because it joined a small list of those small sized performance cars. If you take a look at the small cars during this year, there is little competition. With the reputation of Volvo being one of performance and safety, for those wanting a small car, the C30 was the choice to make since you knew you would be getting top quality German engineering. For more information on the top cars of the year 2008, visit the website CEMA2008.com to learn more about these great cars.