View all Volvo S90 Reviews ► Volvo’s S90 is on our fleet► Not hybrid, not diesel► Not very Volvo, then? Month 12 living with a Volvo S90: time to say goodbye After 12 months with the S90, I’m a Volvo convert. It joined us just after the arrival of our first child, at a time when steps, buses and just …
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View all Volvo XC60 Reviews Long-term update – 5 May 2009 After I came back from university, fully educated but with little more than beans in my wallet, I spent several months sleeping in the garret at the top of my parents’ house. It was so small, there wasn’t enough room to swing a hamster around it. It had a …
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View all Volvo XC90 Reviews ► Introducing Volvo’s latest seven-seater► We live with the XC90 as a daily driver► How the D5 squares up to T8 and T6 Month 8 running a Volvo XC90: the conclusion to our long-term test The XC90 is the poster boy of New Volvo, responsible for spearheading the reinvention of the brand as a slick …
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View all Volvo XC70 Reviews Final report – 6 May 2008. Let’s get the (very few) bad bits out the way first. With an 28mpg average, fuel economy was mediocre and no more. And the digital compass in the rearview mirror was too bright at night. Apart from these two problems, my long term Volvo XC70 verged on the genius. There. …
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View all Volvo S60 and V60 Reviews ► Long-term test diary of hybrid Volvo► Diesel-electric powertrain impresses► Price, dynamics, economy, not so much… Month 11 running a Volvo V60 Plug-in Hybrid: the conclusion to our long-term test When he mused that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts, Aristotle probably wasn’t thinking about Volvo’s V60 D6 R-Design Lux. …
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