Volvo S40

Car Sedan ⭐ Popular pick Discontinued

1 production run · 1 variant · 9 registers with powertrain counts

Years on record

The first and last year each official register has the Volvo S40 on record.

Netherlands: 1997–2013; Surviving fleet by first-registration year.
Finland: 1996–2026; Surviving fleet by first-registration year.

Worldwide popularity

Top 10% worldwide

Measured from real registration and fleet counts, not clicks or hype.

Where it's been spotted

Australia Canada Finland Israel Luxembourg Netherlands New Zealand Norway Spain Switzerland Ukraine United Kingdom United States

Evidence of real vehicles in each country's official register. Grey imports count, because they're real vehicles on real roads.

Production history & variants

1 production run · 1 variant · 9 registers with powertrain counts

Powertrain counts straight from official registers, each with what that register counts.

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Building on it? The same record is one API call: /api/v1/vehicles/car/volvo/s40/full

Registration history

Netherlands: Surviving fleet by first-registration year

Finland: Surviving fleet by first-registration year

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Netherlands
1997	101
1998	163
1999	172
2000	231
2001	224
2002	350
2003	450
2004	1,146
2005	826
2006	1,018
2007	659
2008	506
2009	387
2010	272
2011	142
2012	141
2013	4

Finland
1996	56
1997	167
1998	203
1999	300
2000	315
2001	347
2002	623
2003	663
2004	1,326
2005	1,191
2006	1,052
2007	718
2008	763
2009	404
2010	389
2011	422
2012	256
2013	32
2014	20
2015	24
2016	22
2017	29
2018	51
2019	56
2020	24
2021	19
2022	10
2023	9
2024	3
2025	4
2026	2

From official registers, as of 2026.10.3. Bases differ per country, so never compare across panels.

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The Volvo S40 as JSON, one request away: its canonical id, where it is registered and how popular it is.

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{
  "id": "car/volvo/s40",
  "name": "S40",
  "make": {
    "id": "volvo",
    "name": "Volvo"
  },
  "kind": "car",
  "body_type": "sedan",
  "availability": [
    "au",
    "ca",
    "ch",
    "es",
    "fi",
    "gb",
    "il",
    "lu",
    "nl",
    "no",
    "nz",
    "ua",
    "us"
  ],
  "regions": [
    "as",
    "eu",
    "na",
    "oc"
  ],
  "popularity": {
    "global_decile": 3,
    "mass_decile": 1,
    "rarity": "common"
  },
  "aliases": [],
  "former_ids": [
    "car/volvo/s-40",
    "car/volvo/s40-2-4i"
  ],
  "years": null,
  "era": "discontinued",
  "enrichment": null,
  "enrichment_gated": true,
  "dataset_version": "2026.10.3",
  "upgrade_url": "https://vehiclesdb.com/pricing",
  "attribution": {
    "source": "VehiclesDB",
    "url": "https://vehiclesdb.com",
    "license": "Identity layer: CC-BY-4.0; enrichment/resolution: proprietary. Display requires visible credit — see https://vehiclesdb.com/legal/attribution",
    "dataset_version": "2026.10.3"
  }
}

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