Volvo V70 D5 SE Lux review
Volvo V70 2.4 D5 SE Lux Road Test
Test date 22 August 2007
Price as tested £30,270
For Big load bay, economy, performance and CO2 emissions, finish
Against Fussier appearance, diesel's clatterings, less convenient control layout
A Volvo estate is the archetypal big estate, although this has been challenged by German makers recently.
But they don’t have Volvo’s long heritage, which began with 1953 Duett PV445 wagon (see gallery), grew with the classic Amazon (1962) and the 145 (1967) that became the big-bumpered 245/265 (1974).
The rectilinear, American-esque 740/760 and 940/960 came in 1985, to be followed by Volvo’s first big front-drive estate, the smaller 850 (1993), which morphed into the first V70. The just-replaced, S80-derived V70 appeared in 2000.
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