[nggallery id=2263 template=customlinks] This week we have the 2016 Volvo V40 D2 Manual R-Design Lux Nav in for review, complete with Volvo’s latest Drive-E D2 diesel engine. It’s more than three years since we last had the Volvo V40 in for review, at which time it was still really the new kid on the block, fighting […]
Volvo XC60 Review: 2015 D5 Geartronic SE Lux Nav
[nggallery id=2245 template=customlinks] This week we’ve had the Volvo XC60 D5 SE Lux in for review, complete with all wheel drive and Volvo’s old-school 5-cylinder diesel engine. When you think of more compact SUVs, the Volvo XC60 isn’t necessarily the car you first think of, with offerings like the BMW X3 and Range Rover Evoque […]
Volvo V60 Plug-in Hybrid Review (2014/15): D6 AWD Geartronic R-Design Lux Nav
[nggallery id=2032 template=customlinks] We have the Volvo V60 Plug-in Hybrid in for review and test, with the D6 AWD Geartronic R-Design Lux Nav offering impressive economy and performance. At a price. Volvo is busy reinventing itself as a maker of proper premium cars that aren’t German, and making a decent fist of it with newer cars […]
Volvo S60 Review (2014): S60 D4 SE Nav 181 PS manual
[nggallery id=1969 template=customlinks] We spend a week with the now quite venerable Volvo S60 D4, but this one has the new Drive-E 2.0 litre diesel with 181PS and improved economy and performance. Most of the Volvo news of late has been about the new XC90, and Volvo’s new range of engines – the Drive-E range […]
Volvo V70 Review: D5 R-Design Nav 2012 (2013 MY)
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. [nggallery id=1376 template=customlinks] There once was a time when all Volvos were boxy and capacious, and a Volvo estate that sacrificed capaciousness for style was anathema. But […]
Volvo V40 Review: D3 SE Nav (2012)
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. [nggallery id=1303 template=customlinks] 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 […]
Volvo V60 T6 Polestar Review (2012)
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? [nggallery id=1273 template=customlinks] 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 […]
Volvo XC70 D5 Review – SE LUX (2012)
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
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)
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 […]