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Desperate housewife
Compared to the predecessor model, the modern sixty received a wheelbase and short overhangs elongated by 60 millimeters Your correspondent is a very envious personality. All my life I envy people in a white one who is able to see a unique, beautiful and romantic in what you pass by without turning your heads without holding your eyes. Apparently, for this reason, I never knew how to find a common language with fans of cars with the Volvo logo.
Yes, these are solid, well -constructed cars. Yes, their price tags in the showrooms of dealers force more attention to the cars of the German automakers of the premium segment. Yes, the company has made safety with a traditional feature of all its advertising campaigns. As a manufacturer of collection armored cars, however, not so long ago, a new S60 appeared on the market. The commercials, which we all have to believe, called the model only at a athlete. For the first time in my life, I firmly decided to fall in love with a car from Volvo I should once start! Moreover, with its help, the Swedes once again threaten to squeeze the BMW with her three, Audi with A4 and C-class from Mercedes.
Looking at the front of the S60, you immediately understand that the car was developed even when Volvo was under the control of Ford. In the design of the front, you can clearly see how, in a serious battle, on the one hand, the requirements of a certain continuity of the features inherent in the predecessor model, and on the other, the distinct influence of the Ford with its kinetic design came together. What kind of current defeated, it is difficult to say with confidence, but it is worth recognizing that the alloy received as a result is quite pretty.
In the back seat, the S60 you are convinced that it is not for nothing that the advertisers call her athlete at all. It is very convenient to refer to this, explaining to customers why the legs of the rear passengers are so crowded here.
Frankly, the author of these lines was looking forward to the landing in the sixty salon. And all thanks to the impression obtained a couple of years ago from the S60 concept on one of the automobile shows. Only the crystal central console of that exhibit that was hanging in the air is worth it! The average blonde usually expresses such an experience with a capacious phoneme wow!. In anticipation of the aesthetic extravaganza, we open the door, sit on the driver's place and the balloon of hope bursts cynically. No, a long time ago, a console hanging in the air is present in the air, of course, is present. But she is made of banal plastic! The impression is that you are in some XC 70 console-stringing is habitually occupied by a pile of buttons responsible for all kinds of useful and not very functions. The display of the navigation-multimedia complex also ranged, with which you can adjust the pile of individual parameters of the car, for example, the severity of the rotation of the steering wheel, the sequence of automatic unlocking of the doors, etc. Now crawling along a rather voluminous, but logical Russified menu can be using both Kruilki (Hello Luxury in German!) On the console and the keys on the steering wheel.
What surprised was the frank gust of design of electronic dials on the dashboard. Even many Koreans can now boast of a more stylish design of this interior element. Or are the creators of the car thus stimulate the driver to look more at the road than to admire the tidy? If this is not so, then why, when the sun is in the front hemisphere relative to the car, the dashboard becomes so poorly readable? There is nothing unusual in this effect, this happens on some cars, but the car of the brand, which stubbornly considers itself luxury, a similar nuance of surprise.
It is felt that the back of the cabin, although it can easily take a couple of adult passengers, is still not ideologically intended for this. Yes, the riders here will not support the crown of the ceiling and their shoulders are unlikely to be able to touch. But sitting down on the rear sofa in the mode yourself, you understand that you would prefer to take one of the front seats. Still, this machine is mainly focused on the driver and the front passenger. Yes, and the volume of the trunk (less than 400 liters) makes it clear that for the transport of any serious family cargo it is worth thinking about the acquisition of some other car. Moreover, in the basic configuration, the sixties are equipped only with a reptile for sealing the punctures of the wheels. The reserve will appear only for an additional fee, and it will have to live right in the trunk, eating an already not record useful volume.
However, the discussion of the dimensions of the trunk of this car looks quite funny against the background of its dynamic capabilities. A six -cylinder in -line gasoline six produces 300 with small horses, there is a full -wheel drive controlled by the rigidity of shock absorbers. Inspires! But, of course, a pile of all kinds of strangulations that bake about security is thrown on all this driver of the Volvian tradition. In addition to the track control, which has, by the way, by a well-imputed algorithm of work, there is a collision system and a system that prompts the presence of cars in neighboring lanes, and a system that independently slows down the car when the pedestrian suddenly appears in front of the hood, everything that is required is required A standard housewife to get to the nearest supermarket and vice versa. But the car is charged, as they say, for drive and buzz! What is the point of paying nearly 2 million rubles per cart from a supermarket? After all, the S60 is capable of more! A little cut on the gas pedal, get a weighty kick in the kidney area! Slightly cut off on a slippery turn and the machine in the most delicious way wags the booty, and the stabilization system will work so competently that the average driver will immediately have a flattering feeling that it was he, with his own hands, like a typical flying Finn, easily and professionally caught Car in drift beauty! But where to realize the adrenaline potential of this machine? On the track in some goat? It is possible, but for such purposes, other models of the car usually acquire. In urban traffic jams, a powerful motor and a sprinkled suspension do not matter. Well, then let's roll out Volvo S60 to the Moscow Ring Road! Gas to the floor, powerful, but melodic m-u-rrrrrr! From the T6 cylinders, we start a spot. In fact, in normal countries, such a driving style is sharply not welcome by the police and is gambling is suppressed by its representatives. The spectacle excites domestic road policemen only if it is accompanied by excess speed, drawing to deprivation of rights. We do not exceed so much and therefore rush unhindered, enjoying the psychedelic color music in the cabin. How else? On the sides, in the area of \u200b\u200blateral mirrors, the orange morzyanka is repelled of warning about the neighbors by stream, a system of preventing clashes is blazing right in front of my eyes. It is good at least that the latter can turn off the sound duplication of warnings, its sharp sober is able to cause volley loss of feces from all the inhabitants of the car. Riding turns into a continuous idiotic trick. The stiffness settings of shock absorbers significantly affect the behavior of the machine. It’s just nice to go in comfort, and handling at a height. But in sports or that cooler in an advanced car begins to steer better better. But the average person will only feel that the salon has become louder and tougher. In this sense, it was not surprised that all colleagues who were entrusted with traveling to the S60 admitted: they quickly humbled the sports part of the ego, put the suspension into a comfortable state and enjoyed measured smoothness. To the question why is it so? The exhaustive answer followed: And the car is like that. Calmness evokes. Apparently, this is already in the genes of the brand to make a car for phlegmaticians. Therefore, the entire power of this magnificent T6 and sports bells out of the suspension and automatic transmission modes are felt as excessive.
Volvo S60 T6 AWD
SPECIFICATIONS
Dimensions (mm) 4628x1865x1484
Wheel base (mm) 2776
Mass (kg) 1710
Slave. engine volume (cm3) 2953
Max. Power (L.S.) 304
Max. Twisting the moment (Nm) 440
Max. Speed \u200b\u200b(km/h) 250
Acceleration 0100 km/h (c) 6.1
Cf. fuel consumption (l/100 km) 9.9
Trunk volume (L) 380
Price (rub.) From 1,800,000
A source: Mkobil magazine [April/2011]
