Wilvo XC70 test drive since 2007
Call to the ax
With a cute paradise in a hut, but in the barn, as for some reason it is customary to call a certain category of cars, there are much more chances to find family happiness. Especially if this barn is a new Volvo XC70. This is an exemplary car for an exemplary family. Not necessarily Swedish, and even more so in the sense that our obscene stereotypical thinking tells us. He is for a family who has a rise at 8 in the morning, at noon lunch, in 4 cinema, in 7 dinner with a prayer for the glory of the Lord, at 9 good night. The watch neatly add up on the same blissful days. On Tuesday Theater. On Thursday, grandparents arrive on Saturday, a children's costumed holiday, and on Sunday, do not forget to go to the ice cream with Ericksons. The modest charm of socialism. If this machine had not been cut down with an ax and was not made inside with a soldering lamp and a nail, I would swear with pleasure traveled to the Volvo XC70. But the appearance of the car stops me.
In general, if you figure it out, Volvo has shows Volvo for several decades what the Volga automobile plant should strive for. You look at the Volvo lineup and project: this is a penny, this is a shokha, but the seven, but here you have a dozen. The solemn ads are especially funny, they say, you will get a new rastiling body, over which our best designers sweat for many days and nights. The vase also has a very large and densely populated design bureau. And although it was impossible to distinguish the five Lada Lada from the fifs of 2007, it should be presented with a designer breakthrough every year following the example of Volvo. And print press releases with the text, for example, the following content: this car is equally pleased with the eye regardless of the year of its release. How many generations have already grown since the release of the first copy, and it is striking and amazing. Agree, Volvo does everything the same as the Togliatti giant (yes, with great success, but with the same principle). I drove on different Volvo models, especially a lot of rolling machines in Sweden, and it was always difficult for me to determine from the inside, in which car, damn it, I'm going now. Where I am? What is it? XC, S, C, forty, sixty, eighty ... The only exception to this batch of steel blanks is a car under the marking of 90, because it is high and off -road. I am subjective, and I do not hide it. I don't like what the car looks like. But this is a matter of taste. The tastes are different, because there is a world of Toyota lovers. Therefore, I do not press and are ready to admit the fact of the existence of VOLVO connoisseurs. Their darkness, and darkness and darkness, try to fight with them.
About Volvo I will not even say that it is dry. Or that this is a burgher-strict, like some German, a car. Or that it is concise, like a piece of soap (stone in the garden Koreans). There is nothing at all, in terms of design. It seems that this is not a design work, but a figure of a children's designer. I think that the LEGO models will be even more complicated. I would describe the XC70 as an accounting machine of the military unit. The tax policeman is also an organic driver of this car. Not the head of the tax police, but its full -time inspector will organically merge with such a vehicle. The system of warning about the danger of a clash with the function of automatic braking (in the English version is indicated by the abbreviation CWAB) one of many assistants, who is already starting to equip the new XC 70 this year. Unlike the early options for the S80 model, the new CWAB uses to prevent The accident is not only a radar, but also a camera. The radius of the radar is 150 meters. The radius of the vision of the camera is 55 meters.
Working in pairs, the camera and radar forces the system to turn on, when the collision in the absence of the driver’s reaction will be inevitable. We break the ura, the rod from the Swede. And with such a benevolent attitude to Scandinavian creativity, I got behind the wheel of the new Ha ha twice XC70. To say that I was shocked to say nothing. Such a number of options was not even on the spaceship of Buran. And the main price. For $ 56 thousand, they give you so much that just eyes. Of course, it is a pity that in Volvo, carried away by the cost of the metal, structures, materials and processes, they forgot about design. But for that kind of money there is such a wealth ... Yes, I don’t give a damn how it looks, this car. Let it even be cut down with an ax, even with a grip.
In a car for 56 thousand dollars, I want you to think about this figure, dear friends there is a BLIS system that warns about finding an outsider in a blind zone, and a system of help when driving on the descents, and active cruise control, which is strongly incomparable, which is strongly incomparable, which It itself slows down the car ... And this is all in the application to a set of standard automobile audit.
With such a package of standards and options XC70, a direct competitor AlloD, for example. If you do not compare prices. Because, comparing, you will be faced with a difficult choice of what to buy: one Allroad or two XC70. I note, on theater, aside, that you will not find half of what XC70 has in Allroad. Positive options are not exhausted. In the heading to this article there is a certain stretch, inaccuracy. XC70 This is not a shed in the derogatory sense of experienced drivers. The car is absolutely reliable. In it like in a tank. There are few equal in the market, and I'm sure the quotas will buy it on it. XC70 drives very cool. Absolutely not like Volvo. The car accelerates quickly. It stops perfectly. Stunningly balanced.
Even the tail, which Volvo is usually terrible, and that behaves decently. He, as they say, does not wag the dog. In other words, there is no such thing that you give in a little, and the tail of the car met with the muzzle, and it twisted herself. I almost did not notice the paroism that Volvo always had, like the Volga, the ambulance of the 1976 named after 1976, which was buzzing and whistled so that the patient was not stuffy.
The CWAB algorithm is as follows: first on the windshield, the reflected red light is lit, which the driver reflexively perceives the stop-signals, at the same time an alarming sound signal is heard in the cabin, then the brakes come into effect to reduce the reaction time of the brake pads closer to the discs, they fit to the disks, And hydraulics increases pressure to maintain braking force. Finally, if the driver does nothing after that, the car slows down itself. Forcibly. As tests show, even a slight discharge of speed is a great good for the motorist and his passengers. A decrease in speed in a collision from 60 km/h to 50 km/h reduces the energy of the blow by about 30 percent, says Jonas, the manager of the CWAB technical project. Right in snow dawn. The Volvo XC has a sports spirit. Not like that, of course, like stallions or bulls, but it is felt. This is all the more strange, because Volvo and sports concepts are incompatible. VOLVO VOLVO in sport is a chronicle of failures. How much they did not put their brand at the world championships, they still shot it in a couple of seasons. Volvo cars, in theory, should not drive 110 km/h.
I tell my story. We, Russian Age Racing, were supposed to chase in Anderstorpe, and arrived, of course, to Stockholm. I lingered in Moscow, flew in later and therefore catastrophically late. Go from the airport to the track 400 kilometers. The maximum permitted speed on the highway is 110 km/h. Typical Swedish road: one row in one direction, the other to the other. A very good road, but very narrow. And so I fly along this road, nervously glancing at the watch. At some point, I rest against the tail of the car. The column, of course, is all of the Volvo cars. Volvo trucks, Volvo bus, five or six private cars Volvo, another bus, more trucks ... and they all travel 110 km/h. And they are not going to accelerate. And they will never go faster. I am ashamed, I repent, I violate the rules, go to the oncoming lane through the continuous line and by 180 km/h I bypass the caravan. And I rush, I think on. I go up to the village, I see a sign 110, I understand once again that I am committing a bad act, once again I check with the clock and realize that I have caught up with time and rush to me no longer need. From this moment I am going at the set speed.
I'm leaving for a turn, it stands like a dwarf from a photo, the whole policeman is in a new form. He stops me and says: you have not seen, did not overtake you at a speed of 180 km/h Volvo S60 blue? Unfortunately, the number was not given to me. I answer: be sure that no car overtook me. He: Well, if you see this car, call me, and holds out a business card with the phone. I acted abnormally, like the Tunguska meteorite, and the policeman was waiting for a meeting with an abnormal driver. He could not even imagine that I, such a calm and reasonable person, is that malicious offender.
Volvo in Russia, including the new XC70, now you can buy with a diesel engine. Especially for the shame of skeptics, confident that the diesel engines do not live in our harsh latitudes, Volvo conducted an indicative raid of Arkhangelsk-Arkhangelskoye.
The Lomonosov highway of 1263 kilometers was passed in two with a small tank. The device of the dashboard on the XC70 shows that with perfect driving, a car with an D5 engine can pass 600 kilometers. The five-cylinder engine D5 (2.4 liters) has a power of 185 hp, torque 400 nm at 1500-2700 revolutions per minute. It fully complies with Euro-4 standards. All diesel cars supplied to Russia are equipped with a parking heater with a timer. What Russian death. The Volvo XC70 can go quickly, but more than 110 km/h will not travel on it. I am almost sure that sooner or later Volvo cars will begin to put some special device that will not allow this. By the way, the option of a sober driver breathed into the tube in the cabin, and the car, cringing from the fumes, is not starting for the XC70 is offered today. Sweden is going to achieve zero mortality on its roads, and for this all funds are good. It is a pity that we are not the Swedes. We have, with the exception of representatives of the middle class, who are just beginning to grow stronger and Europracture another design. We have everything else. Brains, traditions, roads, even attitude to life and death. Swedes are rule the laws and cars of Volvo. Russians rules the grave. We do not achieve zero mortality on the roads, because we do not strive for this. If we reach it, then we will die all at once. Boredom. It is generally not clear how it is when no one beats in a cake. We need it all, how many Kuti we release. Then again: and get together? And the reason?
Car news of the oral part of the presentation did not last long and touched my heart, but not the brain. I have never heard before
such beautiful stories about the appearance and interior of the car, about an inconceivable high level of security, about sports, about comfort and brilliant market prospects. The conclusion suggested by itself to abandon xc70 means not to respect oneself! I am ready to agree with this, but there are also engines, electronic devices, gearboxes, a full -wheel drive system ... Not a word about a scornful metal! Believe me, reader, I suddenly realized that asking some technical questions in this audience would be a monoton. And there was no one to ask them. www.h-class.ru: the new Volvo XC70 feels in its place both in the parking lot in front of your favorite bistro, and in front of the opera theater, as well as on a broken forest road or mountain serpentine. Thanks to a more convenient and luxurious salon, functional flexibility of the station wagon and a complete drive and capabilities of the XC model, the new XC70 is an ideal tool for outdoor activities. Owners of most cars care more about their image and how they are perceived. Nevertheless, most modern and future owners of the XC70 chose their car because they intend to fully use its capabilities. XC70 was originally created in order to bring you to the place where the road ends. But he also showed his ability to deliver you further if you dare to do so. A couple of years ago, we organized a test drive in Mexico, on the most terrible roads that are more reminiscent of off-road. Even the most avid adventure lovers were impressed by what XC70 could deal with, adds Fredrick ARP, president and Executive Director of Volvo Cars
To be honest, the author, from the 185-horsepower five-generation D5 five-generation, I expected more. Yes, it is burdened and crystal clean the motor is equipped with a soot filter and satisfies the EURO 4. But there are not enough agility of diesel Volvo on the German autobahns: even accelerating into the floor, it is not always possible to join the stream from the secondary road without interference. However, in this sluggishness, not only the engine is to blame, but also a six -speed machine operating with it paired. When you sink the pedal, it first of all takes care of comfort: all switching is soft, smooth, but not fast. According to passport data, the diesel Cross Country gains a hundred for 9.9 s. Not a little. No, the diesel XC70 does not have sports driving. Even if you transfer the adjustment of the steering wheel amplifier to the High difficult position, even if you set the sports mode of the shock absorbers (this allows you to do the Four-C option), Volvo continues to go in the country of country with decent rolls and without sports in reaction. In the same way, by the way, a gasoline version is also traveling, under the hood of which there is a in -line six with a capacity of 238 liters. with. The gasoline station wagon accelerates, of course, more fun gains a hundred for 8.6 s. But the suspension for sports does not pull. 
5 Wheel new Volvo XC70 retained the best features of the predecessor. The changes turned out to be restrained-conservative. It's good. A radical change in image can lead to a loss of part of potential buyers. Three operating modes allow you to radically change the nature of the car from supercom's to sports. Salon. Interior XC70 The embodiment of Scandinavian design. Everything is restrained, strict, practical. Comfort. In the cabin, even people of high stature will be conveniently accommodated. Security. Electronic stabilization systems are responsible for the behavior of the car. A person’s mistakes are corrected by a computer. Passive safety is traditionally at a high level. Nobody will surprise anyone to get five stars on Euro NCAP tests. Volvo XC70
Gasoline engine, 6 in a row
Working volume (l) 3192
Power (L.S. at rpm) 238 at 6200
Moment (nm at rpm) 320 at 3200
The drive is complete
Gearbox automatic, 6-speed
Length/width/height (mm) 4844/1860/1605
Wheel base (mm) 2815
Equipped mass (kg) 1640
Maximum speed (km/h) 215
Acceleration to 100 km/h (c) 8.6
Fuel consumption, medium (l/100 km) 10.8
The price of the tested car in Moscow is 1,400,000 rubles.
We thank the VOLVO representative office in Russia (495) 745-9780 and the Russian Automobile Federation for help in organizing the shooting
Text: Nikolai Fomenko
Photo: Andrey Danilov
A source: "Autopilot"
