Volvo V40 R-Design and V40 Cross Country

Volvo V40 R-Design and V40 Cross Country Volvo is dangling forbidden fruit in our faces at the Paris Motor Show. The automaker is showing off not one, but two wagon concepts based on the stunningly handsome V40 -- the Volvo V40 R-Design and the Volvo V40 Cross Country. Volvo V40 R Design Rear The Volvo V40 R-Design can be filed under "never gonna happen." This stunning compact wagon (shown at the Paris Motor Show in Polestar's signature shade of Rebel Blue) takes a standard V40 and adds a satin metal-framed black gloss grille, a unique diffuser, twin exhaust pipes, 17- or 18-inch five-spoke diamond cut wheels, and an optional Polestar-developed Sport chassis.

 Volvo V40 R-Design and V40 Cross Country

Volvo V40 R-Design and V40 Cross Country

 Volvo V40 R-Design and V40 Cross Country

Volvo V40 R-Design and V40 Cross Country

 

 Volvo V40 R-Design and V40 Cross Country

 The Sport chassis is lowered almost a half-inch compared to the standard V40, and also includes new shocks, struts, dampers, and more. Though it's being displayed in T5 trim, with a turbocharged 2.5-liter I-5 making 250 hp, Volvo says the R-Design pack will be available with all engines, even its 1.6-liter 113-hp turbodiesel I-4. Volvo V40 Cross Country Front If any of Volvo's Paris Motor Show
concepts had a shot at making their way to the United States, it'd be the Volvo V40 Cross Country. Just as the XC70 is the high-riding version of the V70, and the XC60 is the high-riding version of the V60. Lifted by 1.6 inches, the V40 Cross Country also gets XC70-like wheels, faux-skidplates, unique bumpers, and a new grille. Despite the fact that Volvo will bring neither the V40 R-Design nor V40 Cross Country to the U.S., that doesn't stop us wishing for the forbidden fruit.