Test drives Volvo V50 2004 - 2007 station wagon

In December last year, the VOLVO company introduced the V50 station wagon, created on the basis of the S40 sedan, at the Motor show in Bologna. And then the Swedes promised that in the fall of 2004 he would appear on the Russian market. But the promise did not keep the station wagon V50 will go on sale in Russia since May. That is, as…

Arctic, Lapland, light frost. Around the cleanest snow, sometimes bizarrely playing in the rays of the sun rising above the hills. And the silence of the various Volvo goes to the Mecca of Winter tests for the Test World training ground. In anticipation of the cunning snowy tracks, my colleague and I live a new-wheel drive Volvo V50 T5 AWD. We’re inhabiting, for with ...

Modification: Volvo V50 Library Marking. The new Volvo S40 was shown to the world last fall at the Frankfurt Auto Show, that is, on our continent. However, the United States announced the main market for the Swedish sedan. With an annual production volume of 70 thousand cars, a third will be sold behind the ocean. For comparison: in Sweden they plan to sell 5, and ...

Take the Volvo V50, put a 220 hp engine under the hood, equip all -wheel drive, and you will get something that makes others envy. This will be called the Volvo V50 T5 AWD. He is on our list of the fourth. The fourth Volvo, which takes place of a long -term test in the editorial office. If you remember, at first there was S40, then ...

Acquaintance with the car took place at the end of winter in snowy Finland. The company invited a motley company of journalists from all over the world - from Brazil, Jordan, Holland, Italy, the USA, Latvia, and the largest group arrived from Moscow. And in what other country is so many automobile magazines published? The surroundings of the town of Ivalo ...

Volvo V50 T5 AWD - a family man with an athlete's ambitions of the younger series of S40 sedans and V40 station wagons, which Volvo has produced since 1995, has already affected restyling in 2000: a track and base have been enlarged, new lighting equipment and bumers have appeared, an interior in the style of senior models has been updated . But a truly new model of a magpie ...

The concept of the platform has firmly entered the vocabulary of automotive business professionals. Ten years ago, no one really knew what this word means, and now the most interesting topic is a discussion of models created on the same platform. How they are similar, what is different, successful or not in general turned out to be a platform and how many more models you can ...

It ensures security, it is fast and is able to carry a large cargo - the Volvo V50 car and correctly, which did not ask the Swedes a banal question - why the station wagon now has an V50 index, and not V40, as it was before. It was worth driving on two versions of a car of some 500 kilometers, and it became obvious - despite ...

Nostalgia at times when the word Volvo was synonymous with conservatism and sedate reliability, unfamiliar to those who forgot when the last time went on the tram. Once again, the Volvo V50 T5 rewrites history. If I would put two cars, new S40 and V50s in front of me, and said: choose a gift, I would definitely choose ...