Volvo has reconfigured its type of crossover Sports utility vehicles, departing the XC90 as the only person with three rows of seats and adding the brand new XC60 since it's littlest, cheapest-cost entry.
Volvo also cut XC90 prices 8% (about $3,250) this month.
Despite it's "60" designation, the $38,000-and-up XC60 is dependant on the bigger chassis employed for the XC70, V70 and XC90, this is not on the S60 sedan chassis.
Short take: looks good and works quite nicely round the and surrounding suburbs. Less pleasing on the road.
The characteristics (all optional) making it exceptional:
•Built-in booster seats ($495). Two positions fit taller, heavier kids and shorter, lighter ones. Safety devices instantly go ahead and take proper height and position. If not being used and articulated in to the rear chair, the boosters are invisible to eye and rump.
•Cold-weather package. For $1,000, you receive heated seats front and back, front lights washing machines, heated car windows-washer mister nozzles, rain-realizing wipers — helpful features, even when you do not reside in Fargo, N.D.
Three standard products enhanced the XC60's appeal: all-wheel drive, free satellite radio for six several weeks and City Safety, a method that may instantly brake before you decide to tail-finish the vehicle ahead in low-speed traffic.
Made to make amends for distracted motorists, City Safety idol judges distance and hits the binders at speeds from 2 to 9 miles per hour. Does not activate reduced than 2 miles per hour or maybe the motive force is popping, speeding up, stopping (even resting a feet around the brake pedal).
A 500-mile Virginia-to-Manhattan round trip for that New You are able to auto show provided other experience. Northbound on Interstate 95 and also the Nj Turnpike were fast and furious. The return was literally stop-and-go, interspersed with short, high-speed possibilities.
Salients:
•Styling's great. Second glances at relaxation stops. Enough like Volvo's other XCs for any family resemblance. Enough different to have an attitude.
•Navigation system's a dud. Was adamant several occasions that you simply change and return to the path before it recognized you'd transformed the mind, then calculated a brand new route.
Besides being persistent, Navi Girl (or perhaps a Boy, when you purchase), was an airhead, rerouting from the interstate for mysterious traffic-related reasons and smack right into a one-lane funnel for major construction. When the real-time traffic feature can track traffic-flow changes and provide you with allegedly better routes, should not additionally, it learn about significant construction projects on major streets?
•Seats were not perfect. Large disappointment. Volvo's been tops for a long time. The exam-vehicle chairs were not bad but were not superb.
•Drivetrain needs work. Power's there, okay. The turbocharged six-cylinder is ranked 281 horsepower, 295 pounds-ft. But nail the gas to squirt right into a hole in traffic and you receive a delay, a slam-bam downshift. Puttering though slow/stop/go traffic shipped upshifts adopted immediately by downshifts inside a jitterbug spiced using what felt such as the periodic straddle of two gears at the same time and often what felt like no gear.
•Interior's sweet. Classy materials, nice controls, easy-to-use indicators.
•Optional safety devices were an assorted blessing. The good thing may be the "off" switch. Otherwise, you receive scolding beeps whenever you change lanes without signaling, as well as an explosion of noise and red-colored light in the dash top when you get too near to the vehicle in-front, then automatic stress stopping in the car's save-your-keister system.
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