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Volvo C70: Who is the place in the sun?
It’s easier to find a grouse that claims that the convertible is impractical. Gather the heels of your friends, say a seditious word, and then hear in response: who needs a convertible in our climate?, They don’t have a roof, you won’t put anything in the trunk and you won’t stick passengers back. Critics, your knowledge is outdated modern convertibles (not to be confused with double relatives!) Almost as utilitarian as sedans. At least in the case of Volvo C70, this is exactly the case.
The closest relatives of the VOLVO C70 Capricop compartment, the release of which began in 2005, S40 sedan, hatchback C30 and V50 station wagon. Cars are made on one platform, which is called Volvo P1 or Ford C1. European Ford Focus and Mazda3 are also built on this platform
We will start, however, with the negativity of the Volvo C70, you can and should be scolded for something. Moreover, it is with regard to practicality. It's funny, but the main flaw is in no way connected with the features of this machine as a convertible. The top version of the C70 implies a white salon made of non -certified skin of special dressing. Beauty, of course, is indescribable, but in the summer the lack of ventilation does not affect the well -being of the fifth point of the driver, and besides, these chairs are incredibly dirty. In hot weather, a dark mark on jeans clothes may remain in the heated seat. And if you take up the chair with not fresh fingers, then even a novice forensicist recognizes your clear prints. All this is completely impractical, but, by the way, excusable: the convertible does not make skin color, but the roof.
The hard roof of the Volvo C70 is more than seven hundred parts, hydraulic pump and four electric motor
With her, Volvo C70 has a complete order. The first generation of the model, which was produced from 1997 to 2005, the roof was fabric. The current car protects the driver from the outside world much more reliable than three metal sections, a glass rear window, and even a full -fledged chubby and soft internal casing (which is very rare in the convertible world). So in the clogged salon of the modern Volvo C70 both quietly, dry, and warm even in the frost. With a folded top, the weather will seem more aggressive: if the driver and front passenger up to 100 km/h is still comfortable, then, for example, the young ladies who are behind, the wind will catch up with the haircut even 40 km/h.
The Volvo C70 T5 can not be called driver. Nevertheless, here all 230 hp. and the maximum torque of 320 nm, which is issued by the engine in the range from 1,500 to 4800 rpm
For the opening or closing, honest 30 seconds go, by the way, in these half a minute the time of lowering/lifting the four glasses. At any time, releasing the key, the process can be stopped. The Volvsky roof also has pinching sensors: that is, getting on the way of the levers of someone’s hand or head, the sections are immediately hanging. So they say in the company's representative office, and we did not poke our own heads under the impending roof. They say that it was precisely because of the security system that complicated the opening/closing mechanism that Volvo engineers had to prohibit manipulations with the roof during movement. You can open a place in the sun or hide from the rain only by holding a fully squeezed brake pedal for 30 seconds.
There is another restriction. The roof mechanism will earn only if no one forgets to snap a protective curtain in the trunk in the groove reserved for it. And by the way, in three days of dough, we missed this trifle five times. However, the whims of the curtain compensates for the volume of the trunk. In 404 liters granted by a closed top, for example, a set of a baby stroller plus a road bag will fit. The folded three sections of the roof eat half the trunk remains 200 liters of truth, and so there you can place two small suitcases.
Volvo C70 is far from just a deck chair. The car boasts to choose from two engines. Simple a five -cylinder atmospheric with a volume of 2.4 liters, issuing 170 hp. Those who have little tasty option, one of the most successful engines in the line of Volvo engines. These are 2.5 liters with turbocharging, the main decoration, for example, the charged version of the C30 hatch and the hot Ford Focus ST. The test convertible was equipped with just such an aggregate, also known for the abbreviation T5.
It is interesting that if the most powerful version of the Volvo S40 sedan (the nozzle of our convertible) is equipped with a T5 engine only complete with all -wheel drive, then on the C70 model such a transmission is not provided at all. Only front -wheel drive is available. But with a top engine on C70, you can order both a five-speed automatic box and a gambling six-to-mechanic with a short clutch, reminiscent of hot hatches, but with unexpectedly smooth and therefore comfortable switching. The car with this box, by the way, can show 7.6 seconds to hundreds.
Engineers promise that the roof of the convertible will withstand at least 10 thousand openings/closes, even if the first half of them will be done in the cold, and the second with a strong slope
Naturally, the driver hoping for extreme will have a new desire to feel sweet side overloads in a steep turn. But it was not there. A soft suspension, tangible rolls and a vigilant DSTC stabilization system (non -closed) will not allow like a rider. So the pleasure of acceleration, wind and sun is always please, but there will be no positive emotions from high -speed slalom.
But still, Volvo C70 knows how to inspire the driver with the illusion of gambling. Here, the settings of an electro -hydraulic amplifier with an increase in speed of the steering wheel are increasingly filled with an effort effort. On potholes and bumps of the barracks, the driver tells the driver even excess information about the condition of the road surface. Again, charged compacts are recalled! With one hand you can’t hold such a steering wheel, you will not relax.
Though at the back in the C70 and more supplanted than in the S40, even large passengers will have enough space. It will only be difficult to climb into the salon, the front seats are pushing and folding, but the passage is still released insufficient. Yes, and to unhook the breakdown of the seat belt, you will have to tinker
Volvo does not care, take you you with an open or closed top. It is believed that convertibles are more controlled with the raised roof, but in C70 it is almost impossible to notice the difference. By the way, with the naked eye you can see: with the weight of the roof displaced in the trunk, the car squats onto the rear axle. Accordingly, the unloaded front of the front becomes a little more sensitive to irregularities.
We started with the chairs, the salon and finish. The convertible C70 went to his closest relative, to the S40 sedan. The reckless received the same soaring panel with buttons closely pressed to each other and a small monochrome display of the audio system. Volvo engineers again hit the extremes if they shoved 56 different buttons into the SUV SUV, then minimalism triumphs in C70: there are not even separate Play and Pace keys. You can turn on the excellent system with twelve Dynaudio speakers by turning the volume wheel, like on old radio. The result is an enveloping driver pure calibrated sound impressive. And even with a folded roof.
The roof hidden in the trunk prevents access to things, but for this, the designers came up with a special system that raises plane sections of 20 centimeters up. Press the button, hold and get a hole through which (though it is possible (though, not without difficulty) to pull the desired bag into the light of
The basic version of the convertible with a 2.4 -liter engine costs 1,700,000 rubles. A car with a T5 motor will cost three hundred thousand more - 2,000,000 rubles. Not cheap - at the prices of the Volvo C70 is comparable to BMW 3 convertibles (from 1,758,000 rubles) and Audi A4 (from 1,400,000 rubles). Recall that Volkswagen EOS (from 1,096,208 rubles) and Saab 9-3 Convertible (from 1,189,000 rubles), with which C70 costs one step is cheaper.
Volvo safety traditionally pays increased attention. The seventy cockpit is made of high -strength steels. The database has a couple of frontal inflatable pillows and a pair of lateral IC curtains that protect the front riders in the event of a side blow. IC is shot from the inner door panels, regardless of whether the roof is folded or not. Rising arcs contribute to a decrease in the risk of passenger injury with possible overturning (they come to combat readiness at the command of electronics in a couple of tenths of a second) of the ROPS system, they are installed behind the back row of seats
Source: Auto.mail.ru
