2008 Volvo V70 R-Design impassioned, extrovert and challenging
The best-selling Volvo V70 becomes the fifth Volvo model to be offered with the sporty factory-fitted R-Design option pack. This further cements Volvo Cars’ aim to offer unique products to particularly discerning customers.
The Volvo V70 estate car is for many people the very essence of Volvo: practical, safe and exuding Scandinavian elegance. The R-Design pack spotlights a new dimension: impassioned, extrovert and challenging.
Optimised sports chassis
Volvo R-Design not only offers visible …
2006 Volvo S80 V8 AWD
Among luxury sedans, the Volvo S80 has always been something of an alternative choice. Through two generations, Volvo’s largest sedan has spurned outright luxury and serious performance in favor of cutting-edge safety features and in-cabin technology. And, in a class dominated by rear-drive sedans, Volvo continues to tout the virtues of front-wheel drive, while offering all-wheel drive as an option.
There are plenty of premium-brand sedans that feel more upscale than …
2006 Volvo XC70 AWD Volvo Ocean Race Edition $ 40,735
The V70-based XC70 station wagon is an SUV pretender, styled with a slightly higher ride height to appeal to SUV intenders. It’s powered by a turbocharged, 2.5-liter in-line-five-cylinder engine that generates 208 horsepower and drives all four wheels via a six-speed Geartronic automatic transmission that can be shifted through the gears manually. For 2006 the XC70 includes a newly upgraded Haldex “Instant Traction” all-wheel drive system. Four-wheel disc anti-lock brakes, …
2006 Volvo C70 Convertible T5 218 hp $38,710
Sometimes when you have bad news, it’s a good idea to soften the blow with a distraction. For example, “Say, Jim, that’s a handsome suit you’re wearing; it should really help you land your next job, seeing as we have to let you go on Friday.” But good news doesn’t need a buffer, which is why Volvo really didn’t have to take us journalists all the way to Hawaii to …
2008 Volvo C70 Caresto Edition V8 4.4L
The Caresto V8 Speedster makes a comeback at the 2007 SEMA Show in Las Vegas – accompanied by its posh cousin, the stunning Volvo C70 Caresto Edition.
“The Speedster is a dream car that few people can afford, while the new C70 is the affordable distant relative. Two very different cars, but put them next to each other and you see that they dropped from the same family-tree,” says specialist car …