Wilvo S80 test drive since 2009 sedan

Test drive Volvo S80: Unbearable security

Perhaps every motorist and ordinary pedestrian who knows at least a couple of car brands, to the question, which car is the safest? Volvo will answer. We will leave the reliability of the Volvo S80 specialized organizations and statistics, and we will see what is in the car, except for airbags.
If you list all innovative and not very functions of the S80, there is not enough volume standard for this article. Most of these options were created for safe driving and salon comfort of the driver and passengers. This is not surprising, because the Volvo car of the representative class, and the competitor recognizes only the Mercedes brand, which, in turn, in the opinion of its representatives, has no competitors at all. However, the marketing wars of auto -brands the topic of a separate article.
The company, whose engineer invented a three -point belt, has to support the Renom of the legislator in the field of safety for eighty years. Now in the luggage of passive amulets there are airbags with phased air filling, inflatable curtains, an enhanced body design of four types of steel, including traumatic security frames of the front seats. The same list also includes glass of increased strength. It is not known whether they can withstand the sofa that flew from the roof of the summer resident vehicle, but leave no chance to get a chip from the road pebble.
As befits a car of increased comfort and reliability, all active safety functions in Volvo per step above. Here you will not find the already standard simple ABS function: the anti -lock system is paired with a function of braking (RAH). In addition to the really necessary system of course stability, Volvo is stuffed with other systems for assistance to the driver, such as the control of the occupied strip and the control of blind zones (BLIS).
The usefulness of the last function can be argued. Undoubtedly, there are situations when, during restructuring, it is difficult to notice some participants in the movement in the so -called blind areas, where there are not enough information content of mirrors. However, to know that someone is on the right and left, when moving in a dense stream, at least unnecessarily. But in general, flashing lights under the side mirrors are very distracted from the road.
Unfortunately, it was not possible to check on the track the function of control of the occupied strip. For a full-fledged test, the effectiveness of its use would have to drive at least 500 km after a working day in order to achieve emergency-hazardous fatigue. In Russian urban conditions, (especially if we recall situations where as many as four cars of the drives fit in two pages) there is a danger of the notorious boiling of the brain.
By the way, the electronics failure took place. During a photo shoot, either from the scorching sun, or from other incomprehensible reasons, the car refused to recognize the key and, as a result, start. The solution to the problem was the idea of \u200b\u200bSisadmin from a joke about a broken car: let's try to get out and go again. Indeed, after several attempts to block and unlock the doors, the engine started. However, after turning off the ignition, he again refused to wake up. I was not ready for such surprises on the roads, and the car went to the dealer on the tow truck. The electronic ignition and blocking control key has long been no longer something extraordinary, and as the specialist assured me, such problems are found in many new cars.
In the eternal dispute about the impracticality of the skin, the opponents of the rag appeared a significant argument in favor of the comfort of a leather salon in the heat. At an air temperature of +30, the driver in the S80 does not stick to the seat, and no parts of the body sweat. The front seats have a pleasant ventilation option through a perforation in leather upholstery. Yes, and climate control very quickly cools the heated salon to a refreshing degree.
 
In conversations about electronics and safety, I completely forgot to mention the design and decoration of the interior. The driver’s hands lie on the steering wheel framed in a varnished walnut, armchairs, doors and doors handles are sheathed with light beige skin. Paul S80 cover very soft velor rugs, adding homemade comfort to the environment of the car.
How do reinforced one and a half car tons on the road behave? I can’t say that the Volvo S80 is difficult to manage, and it is clumsy. Yes, perhaps a large steering wheel and can create such an impression, however, you can twist it with one finger, and the constantly turned on all -wheel drive fills the maneuvers with confidence. In a turn at a right angle of 80 km/h, the S80 is entered with enviable unshakability, acceleration to a hundred is 8 seconds.
However, all these turns are not performed with the adrenaline that can be obtained from the management of the sports compartment. Drive at Volvo S80 is just an excellent confident movement and no sport. However, all the data laid out by the speeches of the representative of the representative class S80 may present. These include a soft, absorbing all the irregularities of the suspension, informative steering wheel and confident movement.
 
And why do you need this sport? In my purely personal feminine look in the Volvo S80, it is much more pleasant to go on the spot next to the driver, plunging bare feet into the fluffy velor of the pure rugs, enjoy the high -quality sound of music from twelve speakers and know that your health is in good hands Volvo.
The editorial board of the business car club thanks Volvo Cars Russia and the official Musa Motors dealer
Author: Natalia Bernadskaya
 
 
 

 

Source: Business car club