VOLVO XC60 test drive since 2008 SUV

Volvo XC 60 with a new three -liter gasoline turbo engine T6

The new facets of the Scandinavian crossover Volvo XC 60: six cylinders, a turbine and 400 Newton meters starting from 1,500 revolutions ... T6 we have not had this yet. The six-cylinder gasoline 3-liter engine climbed across the hood with great difficulty.

There was practically no free space left: after all, there was also a turbine squeezed.

Coffee will not spill?
I close the hood and sit in the driver's seat. I look around the front panel and do not find the buttons of adjusting the rigidity of the suspension. They are not there, because for a 286 horsepower, only one sports regime was left for a 286 horsepower. Very well. The driver does not have to think. The designers decided everything for him. I am also a supporter of a radical approach. It's relaxing.

Volvo has always sought to make a pleasant client. So the motor, if desired, offers a powerful one. But Swede is good on a flat surface. Because XC 60 is like a breakfast cart. She is beautiful on the carpet or on the floor. And try to move it with coffee wires will spill. When accelerating into the floor, Volvo noticeably loses its connection with the front wheels, squatting back. And on the tram tracks and potholes of the asphalt, it transfers vibrations to the body and finish.

The longer the legs
When the car gets into your hands for the third time, you begin to notice what used to pass by. Here, for example, is design. The Swedes have long stopped making a body by welding. This is an outdated and dirty technology by North European standards. They plant a strong piece of iron of a strong Scandinava inside a whole piece of iron, which is environmentally friendly with his feet and hands. Everything turns out smoothly, the trouble is only with the fifth door: its silhouette comes out too fast. As if someone, sitting in a car, is trying to break out of it, resting his long legs. Actually, the way it is.

But because of these long legs, we have one of the few cars in which it is really convenient to sit. If you want to create a comfortable interior and an ideal landing at the wheel, you need to entrust this business with the most tall people on the planet. That is, to the Scandinavians. After all, when the car is well -long, the rest is certainly even better.

And what about the new motor? He was heavier in front, but not so critical as to greatly affect controllability. You can’t blame him for sound discomfort. The timbre is pleasant. The consumption, you yourself understand, such an unit is far from modest. He can generally be offended by hearing the word economy. But then it accelerates 7.5 seconds to one hundred kilometers per hour. Poles. And all the same, against the background of the fact that inside Volvo is always so nice, humane and comfortable, about such trifles as the motor, you immediately forget. Only the moment remains in the memory: 400 Newton meters with 1,500 revolutions. From three gasoline liters! From the place exactly what is tearing.

Author: Dmitry Leontyev, photo of Alexander Ortnova-Baranov
 

 

Source: Magazine 4x4 [July /2010]