Sitting at the elegantly crafted helm of the XC60 with the engine running reminds one of Clement Clarke Moore’s Twas the night before Christmas – you know the line: ‘Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse.’ The Volvo is epically refined. After a week’s worth of starting and stopping the motor at inopportune moments you start looking instead at the dashboard displays for true signs of life rather than trying to hear the 3.0-litre 210kW, 400Nm turbocharged V6 heart thrumming away under its bonnet. The worst was when I shut off (actually started) the engine so that the petrol attendant could ‘fill ’er up’.
Yet I can’t fault the XC60 for the way it cossets in those two-tone leather seats and cuts me off from the hustle and bustle of city life. Volvo is well placed with this car not only to lure patrons of other marques but certainly to retain its current crop of owners.
With the XC60, Volvo believe they have found a home for current C30 owners once they too have grown up, or at least until they can afford one, because this petrol range topper is no cheap thrill.
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Not A V6
Common man -- if you want to be a journalist then get the facts straight -- its not a v6 its a straight /inline 6 -- do you need a diagram of the differences?? -- did you look under the bonnet -- the differences are extremely easy to see even with all the plastic covers in place.
Not A V6
Someone steal your breakfast, careful there - you'll have a stroke before your time.
A COMLETE RIP OFF
OK, FOR A MINI SUV, IT IS NOT WELL PRICED, AND U MIGHT AS WELL JUST WAIT UNTIL THE NEW XC90 COMES OUT, SINCE ITS DUE IN 2010/11 AND IT WILL BE A BRILLIANT CAR
What do you mean? If it were
What do you mean? If it were a Toyota ppl in this country would gladly cough up 562 000 for it, even if it came with a grossly underpowered motor and a sticky accelerator.
A EXCEPTIONAL VEHICLE.
THE XC90 WILL ONLY BE JOINING US CLOSER TO 2012. I HAVE DRIVEN THIS VEHICLE AND ITS MAIN RIVAL WOULD BE THE AUDI Q5, WHICH IS PRICED VERY SIMILARLY, BUT LACKS ABOUT R20 000 TO R40 000 WORTH OF FEATURES YOU WOULD FIND AS STANDARD IN THE XC60. THE VOLVO XC60 IS A PERFECT EXAMPLE OF BREAKING THE MOULD AND PURCHASING A VEHICLE INSTREAD OF A BADGE.
A EXCEPTIONAL VEHICLE.
THE XC90 WILL ONLY BE JOINING US CLOSER TO 2012. I HAVE DRIVEN THIS VEHICLE AND ITS MAIN RIVAL WOULD BE THE AUDI Q5, WHICH IS PRICED VERY SIMILARLY, BUT LACKS ABOUT R20 000 TO R40 000 WORTH OF FEATURES YOU WOULD FIND AS STANDARD IN THE XC60. THE VOLVO XC60 IS A PERFECT EXAMPLE OF BREAKING THE MOULD AND PURCHASING A VEHICLE INSTREAD OF A BADGE.
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