Wilvo S80 test drive since 2011 sedan
The piano in the bushes
A sedan that excludes the alteration of the station wagon. Already interesting. The transversely located in a line six -cylinder engine. Intriguing. The world's first environmental certificate received from Lloyd. Unusual. It's all about her - about Volvo S80 Comfortable speed
Each car has its own comfortable speed. One at which you can lead it for a long time without straining, holding the steering wheel with one finger and talking relaxed with the passenger (of course, if the road allows). The Volvo S80, which we tested in Sweden, lies in the range of 160-180 km/h. Above - you have to steer seriously. Below - boring; It seems that you are crawling. Swedish roads contribute to this. They are beautiful and almost empty. It would seem that Davi is full - but no. The speed restrictions are simply Jesuit. On the autobahns near Gotharg - 110 km/h. And try to grow old faster. For a single excess of more than 30 km/h - a fine of about $ 300, and for systematic impudent - up to the prison. There is no police on the tracks, but she sees everything and knows. Thanks to television cameras and voluntary informers.
We walked for two hundred, and, as we later found out, the calls to the police from indignant Aborigines were in bulk. But we were lucky. Volvo has such a weight in Sweden that even a boring-brown-making local traffic cop (naturally warned by the company), gritting her teeth, closed her eyes to journalistic pranks. Test there is a test.
There will be no station wagon
500 thousand cars - this is how much the company intends to sell in the first year of the third millennium. For Volvo, this is a lot. We must strain. The S80 Swedes call a pass (sometimes a punch) in a new age, a starting rate is made on it. Already this year, they plan to sell 500-1000 of these machines only in Russia and this despite the fact that sales will begin in the last quarter. But the Russian market for the company is not the main one. For example, 40 percent of all S80 will go to the United States. No wonder the appearance of the model was developed in the California Volvo design studio - the proposals of European designers were rejected as too traditional. Nevertheless, the car, although it was oriented primarily on the tastes of the Americans, turned out to be quite European. A lot is borrowed from old models: the Swedes themselves admit that in the 80th there is even something from the ancient Amazon.
An amazing thing: although S80 opens a new unification platform (on which, perhaps, a compartment and a convertible will appear), there will be no station wagon on its base? It is believed that in design he is not at the box office. The new station wagon, by the way, will come out in the coming years, but it will be on its own, and not at all as a derivative of the sedan S80.
Lunar dust and piano cover
The car is thorough, solid, large. Inside spacious. And the trunk is so easy. And if you throw the back of the rear seats forward, thus continuing the trunk into the salon, then the idea comes that on the basis of this sedan the station wagon can really not be done. There is no need.
For the first time in the world, the Swedes managed to transversely install a in -line six -cylinder engine. This is more than a solid winning place. Plus a record compact checkpoint. Plus a revolutionary replacement of kilometer wires collected in thick bundles with bulky connectors, for one cable common to all 24 electronic modules and 18 computers (local computer network in a pure form) plus in general, the result of this global desser is a mass of space used for both comfort and security, in particular to increase the crushed areas
As for the external design, then you need to watch, not read. The Swedes themselves, likening the face of a person’s face to the person, especially paid attention to the noble -protruding nose and the hollow cheeks, emphasizing the power of wide cheekbones.
And they also rested on the shape of the rear lantern, it looks like a piano lid. The rear lantern has become a symbol of novelty S80 for the Swedes - it is his album that serves as a spine in advertising films about the car.
Well, the color, of course, should not be forgotten. The one you see in the photo is called Moon Dust. Lunar dust. Also a symbol of the car. It is sprayed only on the S80.
Are you sure you should be faster? The engines are excellent. We managed to carefully skate cars with in -line six - with a boost and without. This is far from a full range of engines for the S80 (there are 5 more cylinder); We focused on six, because it is their Swedes that match our market in the first place - Russians love large motors.
We noticed the difference between the two sixes only in dynamics. The above comfortable speed with both engines is the same, but it is achieved, of course, differently. The turbocharged motor makes the car a kind of gun: it brilliantly pulls in all modes and, for acceleration, for example, from 100 km/h (gas to the floor) Sedokov presses into the chair almost the same as when jerking off. The atmospheric engine, of course, is calmer. The car with it is powerful, but smoothly accelerates somewhere to 160-180 km/h, then flows into a light slumber (as if asking the driver: are you sure that you need faster?) And if you press further, it wakes up again: the set From 200 to 220 km/h pretty good. We did not go above: signs sticking out everywhere with a limitation of 110 km/h acted on nerves.
Naturally, the dynamics also depends on the transmission. On the S80 T6 there was a GEARTRONIC machine, which allows the transfer to manual switching mode - it is quite to match the engine: the dynamics gives a cannon. On an unmistered S80, the machine was ordinary, as recently, the machine guns adapted to the road and the driving manner. It is very good. Only in one mode did it seem a little sluggish to us: if at a speed of 100-120 km/h it must be sharply torn to overtake, the machine becomes more thoughtful than we would like.
The behavior of the S80 on the road (stability, controllability, etc.) can be briefly described as follows: the machine allows you to be careless and forgives very many blunders when driving.
We, fortunately, did not manage to test the vaned Volvian Volvian Volvian Volvian systems of passive security: all these Sips, active head restraints, airbegi, inflatable curtains, and so on. But the consciousness that they are and, God forbid, will work when necessary, adds joy from communication with the S80.
Sit the Russian with buttons Russian
A set of comfortable lotions of S80 is generally standard for machines of this class. Let us pay attention only to what no one else or almost no one else has.
First. Parking lighting system of the machine. Not only do she see you to the door of the headlight for a half minutes - you won’t surprise anyone with this - it also shines in all directions with small bright lights, in particular, built into the body of external mirrors. Thus, a halo of light is created around the car. You get out of the car at night - you don’t get into your puddle anymore. At night you approach the car, press the key -button, and from afar it is clear whether suspicious personalities are spinning nearby.
Second. The most pleasant. GSM telephone as standard equipment. All in science: a loud connection, a set of numbers from the central console, a tube removed from the armrest for personal conversations. How this phone will function in Russia, known for unpredictable interference on the air, is still unknown to us, but in Sweden it works amazingly. Even in tunnels, and tunnels in Sweden are very long and deep, under the hills and rivers. No hearing downs, no interference. The radio in the tunnel stalls, but the phone is not.
I must say, we still found a shortage in this phone. There are no set buttons on the tube, which means to the rear passenger to dial the number, you need to strain the driver. Responsible employee of Volvo, when we told him about this, already hiccuped with indignation and was able to squeeze out only something like: well, you are browned, Russians
The autopilot thanks the Moscow representative office of Volvo Car International AB, (095) 974-1003, for organizing the test.
Who else
In mid -August, there were exactly four Volvo S80 in Russia, and all were the property of the Moscow representative office of the company and were brought here exclusively for the presentation. And only now, in early September, the first Russian owners of the new Volovsky miracle should appear.
It is this last word that best conveys the enthusiastic tone of reviews about this machine. Their quoting would look too monotonous: it’s good, and this is wonderful, therefore, we will try to summarize what maces can reduce the analytical information of the world press about the eighties.
The S80 is the first Volvo attempt to compete for the buyer with the BMW of the 5th series and the E-class Mercedes.
S80 is something in the sense of technology completely out of the ordinary.
S80 is a final break with an old chest -shaped direction for Volvo designers. The gap, the beginning of which was laid by the 40th series.
And the next information will make the future Russian buyers think S80. In the United States, Volvo had a conflict with a number of dealers who were not technically ready to sell and maintain a new super -complex model. Dealers who could well work with previous models have to spend up to $ 30 thousand on the preparation of staff and the purchase of equipment necessary for servicing the eighties. Something is waiting for Russian sellers
And one more detail, which hardly anyone in our country will pay attention, but which gives the entire world press in awe. The eighties radiator is covered with some special protective layer that prevents the formation of ozone, which could lead to the formation of Smog, which, in turn, etc., did this Volvo completely voluntarily, no toxicity standards for a long time will demand such delights for a long time.
What only these Swedes will not come up with.
Model/Modification Volvo S80 2.9 Volvo S80 T6
The manufacturer Volvo Car International AB
The country-producing Sweden
BODY
Type sedan sedan
Number of doors/places 4/5 4/5
ENGINE
Gasoline type with electronic injection gasoline with turbocharges (two turbines)
The location in front transversely transversely
Working volume (cubic meter) 2922 2783
Number/location of cylinders 6/rowing 6/row
Compression degree 10.5 8.5
Power (L.S. at about./Min.) 204 at 6000 272 at 5400
Moment (Nm at about./Min.) 280 at 4200 380 at 2000-5000
The number of valves per cylinder 4 4
TRANSMISSION
Front front drive
Gearbox Automatic four -speed automatic Geartronic with manual mode
SUSPENSION
The front is independent independent
The back of the semi -dependent multi -link semi -dependent multi -link
STEERING
Type gear rack with a hydraulic booster gear-rake with a hydraulic booster
The diameter of the turn (m) 10.9 10.9
Brakes
Front disc ventilated circular ventilated
Rear disk disk
ABS with an electronic distribution of brake efforts with an electronic distribution of brake efforts
Wheels
Tire size 215/55R16 W 225/55R16 W
Alloy wheels, 7JX16 alloy, 7JX16
Dimensions/Opam/Weight
Length/width/height (mm) 4820/1830/1450 4820/1830/1450
Wheel base (mm) 2790 2790
The track front/back (mm) 1580/1560 1580/1560
Clearance (mm) 150 150
The volume of the fuel tank (L) 80 80
Trunk volume (L) 440 440
Mass (kg) 1489 1489
Dynamic characteristics
Maximum speed (km/h) 225 250
Acceleration to 100 km/h (sec.) 8.9 7.2
Economy
Fuel consumption average (l/100km) 10.1 10.9
The estimated price of a trained car in Moscow is $ 60-65 thousand.
Sergey Sorokin, Dmitry Novokreshhenov (photo)
Source: "Autopilot"
