#Volvo crossover xc60 drivers#
#Volvo crossover xc60 plus#

The XC60 was already a handsome-looking machine-I find most of the current Volvos to be easy on the eyes-but I would struggle to tell you what has changed when comparing photos of the older and newer cars. Visually, the Volvo's facelift appears extremely subtle. Last year, Volvo gave the crossover its midlife refresh, adding a hefty bump in battery capacity-and therefore electric driving range-in the process.Īt the time, I wrote that the XC60 made a compelling case for itself, but is that still true five years later? A handsome thing, it has mostly supplanted the trusty Volvo station wagon, as car buyers prefer the loftier driving position but want to keep a generous cargo capacity and a handy rear hatch. The 15-speaker Bowers & Wilkins premium is fantastic, but it’s $3,200 the base system has 10 speakers.Back in 2018 we tested the Volvo XC60 plug-in hybrid, Sweden's midsize electrified crossover. Only the XC60 Inspiration, $3,800 more, provides access to the ventilated, massaging, premium leather seating package with heated steering wheel and heated front/rear seats for another $3,000. Dropping back to the turbo-only T5 engine saves $3,000. If you’re serious about safety and technology, you’ll want three more options packages: the $1,100 Vision package, the $1,900 Advanced package, and the $2,200 Convenience package. My suggestion: Start with the XC60 T6 Momentum, which costs $45,895 including $995 freight. They will have to choose carefully to get the right features and technologies. Most users will be happy with the Momentum trim and either the T5 or T6 engines. The XC60 is a polished vehicle, enjoyable to drive or ride in, and not at all cramped at 185 inches long. So far, the SPA platform has hatched the XC90, S90 sedan, V90 wagon (this summer), and XC60. SPA cars have one engine family available in turbocharged (250-hp T5), turbocharged and supercharged (316-hp T6), or turbocharged and supercharged with a hybrid-electric motor (400-hp T8). The XC60 comes two years after the breakthrough Volvo XC90, a midsize SUV that was the first to use Volvo’s Scalable Platform Architecture technology to build different size cars, wagons, and SUVs out of a common architecture.

#Volvo crossover xc60 drivers#

Volvo said drivers become more comfortable after a couple weeks. Volvo said it has improved the touch-screen interface, although others reviewers test driving the car said they found it at times confusing.

It mimics a tablet, including a home button just below the display, and the ability swipe left or right for additional menu pages: car functions and applications.

Volvo is near-unique in offering standard a vertical 9-inch center stack display, Sensus. Blind spot detection is part of an $1,100 vision package, along with parking assistance and dimmable rear view mirrors. Steering Assist is standard, as is City Safety. The jack-of-all trades Volvo City Safety (that detects cars, cyclists, people, and large animals, and slows or stops to avoid them) will provide additional steering effort if you try to steer around an obstruction at low speed. If you veer across the center line and there’s an oncoming vehicle, you’ll be steered back Volvo calls this Oncoming Lane Mitigation.

#Volvo crossover xc60 plus#

With Steering Assist plus blind spot detection, if you try to change lanes when there’s a car coming up fast in the blind spot (and if you ignore the alerts), Steering Assist nudges you back. Volvo added Steering Assist to three existing technologies.