We have the new Volvo V60 Estate with Momentum Pro trim in for review and test, Volvo’s second 60 Series car and little brother to the big V90 estate. We’ve always liked the last Volvo V60, offering as it did an ‘almost’ premium estate car with good looks and practicality, and without the German obsession […]
Volvo V60 D2 R-Design Nav Review (2016)
This week we’ve had the Volvo V60 estate in for review, with Volvo’s least powerful D2 diesel engine but with R-Design Nav trim. Is the D2 with R-Design a good match? The compact executive market for estate cars usually means buyers defaulting to the German offerings from BMW, Mercedes and Audi, but despite Volvo’s V60 estate […]
Volvo V60 Cross Country D3 SE Nav Review (2016)
This week we have in the Volvo V60 Cross Country D3 SE Nav for review and road test, the V60 Volvo with added ride height and ruggedness. Volvo is busy tidying up its range of cars – and in the process introducing new class-leading models – with the aim, in the next few years, of […]
Volvo V60 Plug-in Hybrid Review (2014/15): D6 AWD Geartronic R-Design Lux Nav
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 like the V40 […]
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? 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 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 […]