Test drive Volvo S40 2004 - 2007 sedan

About turbine and longevity

In any company there is at least one restless fan of German cars that does not recognize anything else. Such a character with a challenge asks: who else knows how to make real cars!?
 

So that there is prestige, and comfort, and dynamics in general, all things. He is triumphantly confident that there will be no answer. Why won't it be? Will be! Try to say Volvo S60 and rejoice in the effect.

 

Here, too, everything is in order with prestige, comfort and dynamics. Are there any doubts? The coolest modification of the S60 R takes a mark of 100 in 5.9 seconds, and has a four -wheel drive and adaptive chassis. In our hands, the copy is not too powerful, but also worthy, with a 2.5-liter engine and low-pressure turbocharged. It is impossible to ride such a machine with a disabled anti -wax system: the tires screech in an ill -manned effect at almost every start. A caressing pride supply of traction is in the entire speed range: a decent working volume of the motor helps out on the bottom, and then a turbine comes into business. So the tonic pickup is guaranteed at any speed.

  

At the same time, the sixties remains a very intelligent machine. Skillful, sociable and sedate. Even with such an ardent motor, she manages to maintain solid smoothness of acceleration and restrained-overtime reactions to the actions of the steering wheel. GEARTRONIC sectral automatic machine as English butler: how unhurried, equally impeccable. This idyllic picture is slightly disturbed by a noticeably hard suspension, which is equipped with all high -speed versions. If you want more comfort, pay attention to the S60 2.4. She has tires higher than the profile.

 

But for our car in the corporate sport-wing, native 16-inch wheels look alien. The rollers of inches at 17, or even all 18, are clearly suggested here. The course of the course will have to be finally forgotten about any smoothness, but it will become completely beautiful. And only plastic is expensive for about five thousand dollars. True, he is a stocky sixtie very much to face.
 
Please note that you have a 2004 restyled machine in front of you. Outwardly, it can be distinguished by a new pattern of headlights and rear lights, a different form, inside along the tightened central consol. The upholstery of the salon has also changed that, according to sellers, it is especially noticeable in the combined version of the skin plus fabric. All finishing materials have become honest: decorative inserts are now made of natural wood and real aluminum, and not of plastic, deceitfully glued with cheap film.
 

The interior was and remains the soul of Volvo S60. Her inimitable salon amazingly combines the Hai-tech style with home comfort, respectability with democratic spontaneity, and the fixture on trifles with Scandinavian laconicism. This is generally one of the best interior samples as a human habitat that automobile designers created. It is modern compositionally and old -fashioned in details here you will not find spectacular displays or sparkling chromium. But a lot of friendliness and no snobbery. Remaining a work of good taste, this salon will not grow old, but elegantly old, a year after year gaining the status of classics. Whether such a longevity is waiting for the sixtieth itself, to predict it is much more difficult.
 

The car was provided by Swed-Mobil, the official Volvo Car Corporation dealer
 

Autography
Volvo S60
Predecessor Volvo S70 (1996)
Volvo S80 platform
Premiere September 2000
Modernization of summer 2004
Sedan body
Engines 2.0-2.5 l (130-300 hp)
Production of Sweden
Expected replacement 2008
 
Text: Leonid Klyuyev
Photo: Roman Ostanin
 
 
 
 
 
   
 
 
 
 

A source: Wheel magazine [No. 94/2005]