{"id":537227,"date":"2026-02-27T17:34:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T06:34:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dmarge.com\/?p=537227"},"modified":"2026-02-27T17:45:48","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T06:45:48","slug":"volvo-xc30-cool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dmarge.com\/cars\/volvo-xc30-cool","title":{"rendered":"Volvo’s Tiniest EV Is Low-Key One Of The Coolest Cars On Australian Roads Right Now"},"content":{"rendered":"

There\u2019s a Volvo doing the rounds in Australia and it\u2019s doing something I genuinely didn\u2019t think a Volvo could do: making me look twice in a car park. The EX30 is the Swedish brand\u2019s smallest car<\/a>, a compact electric hatch that starts under sixty grand, and it\u2019s got absolutely no business being this good-looking.<\/p>

I\u2019ve been spotting them around Noosa lately and every time one rolls past I find myself doing that thing where you half turn your head and think, \u201cwait, what was that?\u201d<\/p>

That almost never happens with a Volvo.<\/p>

Because Volvo has always been a dad brand. Let\u2019s just say it. They made safe cars. Sensible cars. Cars your dentist drove. Car you drove with a sensible hat. The kind of thing you\u2019d see in the school pickup lane in a leafy suburb and think, \u201cgood for them.\u201d The old V70 wagon was a staple of upper-middle-class Australian driveways for two decades and it was about as exciting as the people who bought them.<\/p>

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