Test drives Volvo S80 2006 - 2008 sedan

Choosing a large sedan, many traditionally prefer German classics. But is it worth it to be like a majority when there is a chance to show individuality? After all, there is a decent alternative to a banal solution. In the person, for example, the elegant Citroeon C6, delightfully brutal Chrysler 300C or safe, like Swedish matches, Volvo S80, the French are able to make beautiful cars! Let once in ...

The highest average of business class machines. Five of them are all -wheel drive. Four cars with a 3.5 liter engine or more. Three absolute new items. Choose tastes. If you have money, large enough to make a mistake in this choice. And at the same time, probably, there is not the latter money. Six applicants to take a place in your garage are on ...

A proposal, which can be abandoned by a car, this completely new, created from scratch. But it cannot be said that he greatly attracted attention. Many even think that this is restyling of the predecessor. But eight years ago, when he appeared, this model turned into eighty. This model broke the stereotypes of the brand. In our test S80 ...

Volvo cars have long been (since 2003) and more and more confidently crowd the products of eminent competitors in the Russian market. Neither Mercedes-Benz, nor BMW, nor Audi can boast of sales such as Swedes. Each of the German companies sold about 15 thousand cars in the past very successful for them, ...

Calm, measured life, small neat hotels, farms at a distance and fishing villages. Here, in the south of Sweden, they do not save on a comfortable rest, are given to aristocratic sports golf, tennis, Polo and value prestigious cars. Pre-cross? And yet, even by the standards of a successful Scandinavia, this is overcome by several dozen of the latest sedans of the VOLVO premium sedan ...

Not a single car in the modern world is done without looking at the market conditions, or rather, to the target audience. It is she, without knowing it, that sets the vector for car progress. Designers, engineers and other people who create cars only fulfill the desires of consumers. First of all, consumers from the USA, Europe and Japan. ...

The Swedes scored themselves by arranging a test drive of the new Volvo S80 on their native land. For a comprehensive assessment of the driving capabilities of the worst car than Sweden, there is probably no place. Do you know what Sweden is on the road? These are beautiful autobahns, which are almost empty by European standards (it seems to be ... about traffic jams in most areas of the country ...

After a close acquaintance with the last generation Volvo S80, there was a feeling of flight in the cabin of a business class aircraft with the same helmeter in the hands from nowhere. The car has such a high level of service that the driver does not have to take care of anything: everything is done as if by itself. The surroundings of the Swedish Malmo, where it was necessary to begin acquaintance with the novelty ...

I admit honestly: with the Volvo brand I have a special relationship, I myself have one of the old models of this brand. Therefore, acquaintance with a younger generation promised to be interesting to be an interesting Swede-blonde white beauty with a proud expression on her face and a long name Volvo S80 V8 AWD Executive expected us in a parking lot. Such a color ...