Eight Volvo cars, including three plug-ins, named Car and Driver Editors’ Choice winners

MAHWAH, NJ (Jan. 30, 2025) – Eight Volvo cars, including two plug-in hybrids and one fully electric, have been named Car and Driver Editors’ Choice Award winners for 2025.

 

The winning vehicles include the XC90 T8 and XC60 T8 luxury plug-in hybrid SUVs, the fully electric EX30 SUV and mild hybrid versions of the XC90, XC60 and XC40 SUV, as well as the V90 Cross Country and V60 Cross Country wagons, which all received recognition from an esteemed group of the most discerning and critical editors in the industry.

 

As interest in plug-in hybrids continues to grow in the U.S., so do sales of Volvo plug-in hybrid models.  For 2025 the Swedish brand also offers three fully electric models: the Volvo EX90, EX40 and EX30.

Winners were selected from nearly 500 models tested. The recognition deems them to be some of the best at fulfilling their mission, maximizing value, and delivering an engaging driving experience.

 

“Volvo’s consistent approach to performance and luxury throughout its lineup wins it several Editors’ Choice awards in numerous segments,” said Tony Quiroga, Editor-in-Chief of Car and Driver.

 

Editor’s Choice is an award intended to help in-market shoppers cut through the clutter to quickly find the best vehicles in their respective segments. The winners are selected as the results of Car and Driver’s industry-leading rigorous instrumented testing; editors’ expert assessment of how successfully each candidate vehicle delivers in terms of mission-fulfillment, value, and driving enjoyment; and the ranking each vehicle earns within its market segment. Only vehicles from the 2025 model year, and those that the staff has hands-on driving experience with, are eligible for Editors’ Choice.

 

To learn more about the award-winning Volvo cars, please visit www.volvocars.com.  

 

Read Car and Driver’s complete list of 2025 Editors’ Choice Awards at CarandDriver.com. 

 

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About Volvo Car USA

Headquartered in Mahwah, New Jersey, Volvo Car USA LLC (VCUSA) (www.volvocars.com/us) is a subsidiary of Volvo Car Group of Gothenburg, Sweden (Nasdaq Stockholm VOLCAR B), providing sales, marketing, parts, service, technology, and training support to Volvo automobile retailers in the United States since the 1950s. Operations also include a manufacturing campus in Ridgeville, SC that underlines the company’s long-term commitment to the U.S. as a key market. In addition, VCUSA maintains offices in California and parts distribution and training centers across the country. More information is available on the Volvo Car USA media website: http://www.media.volvocars.com/us

 

Volvo Cars in 2023 
For the full year 2023, Volvo Car Group recorded a record-breaking core operating profit of SEK 25.6 billion. Revenue in 2023 amounted to an all-time high of SEK 399.3 billion, while global sales reached a record 708,716 cars. 

 

About Volvo Car Group 
Volvo Cars was founded in 1927. Today, it is one of the most well-known and respected car brands in the world with sales to customers in more than 100 countries. Volvo Cars is listed on the Nasdaq Stockholm exchange, where it is traded under the ticker “VOLCAR B”.

“For life. To give people the freedom to move in a personal, sustainable and safe way.” This purpose is reflected in Volvo Cars’ ambition to become a fully electric car maker and in its commitment to an ongoing reduction of its carbon footprint, with the ambition to achieve net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2040.

As of December 2023, Volvo Cars employed approximately 43,400 full-time employees. Volvo Cars’ head office, product development, marketing and administration functions are mainly located in Gothenburg, Sweden. Volvo Cars’ production plants are located in Gothenburg, Ghent (Belgium), South Carolina (US), Chengdu, Daqing and Taizhou (China). The company also has R&D and design centres in Gothenburg and Shanghai (China).