What is it?
Blink and you might miss it, folks: this is something of a rarity these days, a value-priced Volvo. Decades ago, the firm didn’t mind mixing it with the volume-selling brands with plenty of its cars, but it generally keeps more rarefied premium-branded company these days.
However, the entry-level petrol version of the now middle-aged Volvo V60 estate is a car you might well be considering next to a mid-sized Peugeot, Skoda or Ford family wagon, or alongside a bottom-end Audi A4 Avant or BMW 3 Series Touring.
If you’re spending less than £35,000 on a V60, you can have only entry-level Momentum trim, and only Volvo’s bottom-rung, mild-hybrid petrol engine, which is badged B3.
Still, this is no austerity-spec offering: you get an eight-speed automatic gearbox and front-wheel drive, cruise control, LED headlights, a powered tailgate and heated front seats, as well as Volvo’s portrait-oriented touchscreen infotainment system and its digital instrument screen, all for no extra cost.
The leather seats, smartphone-mirroring system, inductive phone charging pad and sunroof of our test car are all cost options; but even so, for a sum you could easily spend on a handsomely equipped hatchback in 2021, a full-sized family Volvo does seem like quite a lot of car for the money.
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I always considered Vovo had the best seats is the business, never heard anyone complaining before, that's a first. But whats more a surprised is the report claims this has a big boot. No it doesn't, it has a small boot. 530L / 1440L with seats down. A VW Golf, a Peugeot 308, a Toyota Corollla, a Ford Focus al from a cass or two beloew aren't just a little bigger, their boots are way bigger - at least 15% bigger. As for the Skoda Octavia - wel that has a bigger boot than a V90 let alone a V60.
The days of Volvo exceling in estate cars has long gone, it's now form over function. No wonder dereciation is such an issue with Volvo's traditional cars, the fact is few peolple want them. £35k for the base model thats flawed in just about every department - jeez.