VOLVO S40 test drive since 2007 sedan

It is possible to distinguish the updated Volvo S60/V70/XC70 from the predecessors only if you know in advance what you should pay attention to. The appearance of the cars remained almost untouched, and all changes were more practical than cosmetic. Small strokes, which is primarily subjected to alteration when the appearance of the car decides to refresh? That ...

In order to understand how Volvo S60 changed after another shallow restyling, we had to overcome some temptation. The temptation was the ability to take on the test the updated S60 R. The hot 300-horsepower car, which we tested in late spring of last year (see motor for June 2006). However, we have on a long test ...

For Volvo, the image of one of the most expensive cars in terms of content has long been fixed. And where do volvaters go? To voluntarily embark on bankruptcy a year and a half ago, Mikhail Kolodochkin decided. The manager of the car dealership was at a height. he asked politely. - You can, of course, but - why do you need it? Mark Volvo stands apart ...

For Volvo in Russia, the reputation of reliable, safe, but expensive in content was firmly entrenched. The ratio of myth and reality was found out by Igor Kozlov. Photo: Konstantin Yakubov. Family drawings of the Volvo chief Peter Khorbury will not confuse with any others, except among themselves. Surely S60 owners are insulting when their cars are confused with the youngest S40, because ...

Following its new, asymmetric strategy (sedans and SW are spaced on different sectors), Volvo, following the representative S80 and a full-size V70 station wagon, presented the S60 middle-class sport-sedan. The gap that existed in the lineup of the Swedish company is liquidated. And what did these gentlemen from Gothenborg imagine themselves there? That you can produce cars for pensioners for decades ...

Volvo once again demonstrates who the Master in the manufacture of first -class salons is not a Volvo expert easily confuses the S40, S80 and S60. But if outwardly, almost all Volvas on one face seem banal (especially in front), then penetration into the S60 salon will surprise many pathos aesthetes. As a steering wheel of such a machine as S60, ...

Remember, as in that joke: once a German, an American and an Englishman met. Further, improvisations were possible. So we got almost an anecdote: Frenchman, Japanese, puppy and well, say, the Middle European. Using the exclusion method, you can easily understand that the average European, I called Ford Mondeo. Whereas the nationality of the other three participants in the test does not cause doubts, ...