May 20, 2013

Volvo V70 Review: D5 R-Design Nav 2012 (2013 MY)

Volvo V70 R-Design exterior image

We’ve had the most traditional of Volvo Estates in for a week – the Volvo V70 with the D5 engine and R-Design extras – to review and road test. There once was a time when all Volvos were boxy and capacious, and a Volvo estate that sacrificed capaciousness for style was anathema. But that perception of [...]

Volvo V40 Review: D3 SE Nav (2012)

Exterior of 2012 Volvo V40

This week we have Volvo’s very promising new V40 in for review and test in the guise of the V40 D3 SE Nav manual. If the volume of traffic we’ve seen on Cars UK in recent months viewing stories, videos and photos of the all new Volvo V40 is anything to go by, the new [...]

Volvo V60 T6 Polestar Review (2012)

Photo of white Volvo V60 T6 Polestar

We have the AWD, R-Design equipped Volvo V60 T6 Polestar in for a road test and review. Can a 329bhp, 4WD Volvo estate make sense? So, you buy a Volvo estate if you want to lug round big lumps of brown furniture from boot sale to Antique fair. Don’t you? Not any more you don’t, [...]

Volvo XC70 D5 Review – SE LUX (2012)

Volvo XC70 D5

We’ve had the Volvo XC70 D5 SE LUX in for review and road test. Does Volvo’s now quite old 4WD Estate still have something to offer? The Volvo XC70 isn’t a car you see on every street corner, far from it. Maybe that’s because as a rufty-tufty, jacked-up premium Estate there’s not a huge demographic, or [...]

Volvo XC90 D5 R-Design (2011) Review & Road Test

Volvo XC-90 D5 R-Design (2011) Review

With winter looming, we spend a week with Volvo’s now quite ancient XC90 R-Design. Can the Volvo SUV still hack it? In this review & road test we’ll find out. Volvo has been threatening to replace the XC90 for quite some time. After all, it’s now pushing on a decade old and is still pretty [...]

Volvo V60 D3 R-Design Review & Road Test (2011)

Volvo V60 D3 R-Design

This week it’s the turn of Volvo’s newest estate / sport wagon  - the Volvo V60 D3 R-Design – to arrive for review & road test. Just another Volvo estate, or something more interesting? It takes a very long time for established views to change. I mean, who’d have thought that Take That could ever be cool or [...]

Volvo S40 Review & Road Test: Volvo S40 SE DRIVe Start/Stop (2011)

Volvo S40 SE DRIVe Start/Stop

We have the Volvo S40 SE DRIVe Start/Stop in for review and road test this week. Is Volvo’s frugal S40 a quality car? There was a time – when Adam was a lad and so was I – Volvo just made a certain kind of solid, respectable saloon car for solid, respectable middle class families to [...]