Volvo V50
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Background

The Volvo V50 is the station wagon version of the Volvo S40 small family car ("C-segment") first unveiled at the 2003 Bologna Motor Show, both assembled at Ghent, Belgium. Sharing the Volvo, Ford, and Mazda Global C-car Platform with the European 2nd-gen Ford Focus and the Mazda3, the V50 featured interior "theatre" lighting, a floating center console, and "Volvo Intelligent Vehicle Architecture".

Text adapted from “Volvo V50” on Wikipedia ↗ · CC BY-SA 4.0 ↗ · retrieved 2026-07

Specification
Length
4,510 mm
Fuel
gasoline
Displacement
2.4–2.5 L · 5 cyl
Fuel economy
22–24 mpg combined — EPA 2005–2011
Still on UK roads
23,916
licensed vehicles · 2025
2014 ▼ 53% since 2014 2025

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0 · DVLA VEH0124 ↗

Sources
Wikipedia ↗Wikidata ↗ WIKIDATA · DVLA · EPA
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Contemporaries

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