2016 Volvo V60 Cross Country Review

2016 Volvo V60 Cross Country Review

2016 Volvo V60 Cross Country Review - For Volvo, the most recent five years have been an uneven ride. In 2010, the Swedish carmaker was off-stacked by Ford and assumed control by Chinese car combination Geely Holding Group. From that point forward, the organization has been occupied with retooling for the future and building up to a goal-oriented arrangement that will see a totally new line-up by 2019. 

Basically, Volvo is starting taking its image back â€" not from its Chinese proprietors, but rather from the chasm that lives outside the spotlight. 

2016 Volvo V60 Cross Country Review

The 2016 Volvo V60 Cross Country is not one of the vehicles that will lead this charge; its a return to the previous, a stopgap measure to bait past clients into showrooms â€" itll hit Aussie showrooms in the not so distant future â€" until the new period starts. This home auto is a blend of excellent Volvo qualities (which are great) and some obsolete elements (which are, all around, obsolete). 

This doesnt intend to suggest that the V60 CC isnt a decent auto (in light of the fact that it is), yet rather that its the famous response to a question nobody is truly inquiring. Permit me to sloppy the waters a bit. The V60 CC is not in view of the V60 stage, but instead on the XC70 stage. Its basically a XC70 raised by 65 mm that resembles a V60 with rough terrain body cladding slapped on. 

The V60 is accessible with three unique sorts of undercarriage: Touring, Sport or Dynamic. The V60 CC is just accessible with the Dynamic Chassis, which brings a more unbending body and enhanced suspension for an all the more, well, element driving background. The XC70 is accessible with just the Touring and Sport case, so its reasonable that the V60 CC, in each appreciation aside from outward styling, ought to have been known as the V70 CC. 

(A f urther word on Volvo terminology: Cross Country (CC) is a piece of the new naming framework, while the "XC" assignment will be held just for hybrids and SUVs later on.) 

This makes one wonder: Why is a V60 with more ground freedom and muscular embellishments required when individuals who need this kind of vehicle ordinarily simply purchase a hybrid or SUV? The somewhat explanatory answer: The first V70 Cross Country, which initially showed up in 1997. 

2016 Volvo V60 Cross Country Review

The V70 Cross Country was an extremely powerful vehicle that went ahead to wind up a brazen car symbol. It additionally helped make ready for a subset of hybrids that look more like tall bequest autos than SUVs â€" a subset that keeps on resounding with lovers. 

In delivering an auto that harkens back to the past, Volvo is reporting its expectation to keep up brand respectability, even in the wake of surrendering control to a Chinese organization keeping in mind experiencing a monstrous item push that has as of now started with the to a great extent superb 2016 Volvo XC90. 

2016 Volvo V60 Cross Country Review

In this way, yes, the V60 CC is in fact "another vehicle", however it is not another vehicle under the skin. For instance, this Volvo highlights a turbocharged 2.5-liter five-barrel petrol motor, not one of the cutting edge four-chambers that is set to upset the whole armada. 

With 184kW of force and 361Nm the turbo five-pot is a respectable motor with sensible intestinal mettle and a decent snarl, however it endures regarding general proficiency contrasted with what one finds in the new, cutting edge XC90. To be sure, the V60 CC is a parched, with asserted fuel utilization of 10.6 liters for every 100 kilometers. 

2016 Volvo V60 Cross Country Review

To make matters all the more difficult, the motor is connected to a six-speed programmed transmission, not precisely what one expects in 2015 from the run of the mill extravagance auto maker (were accustomed to seeing double grasp or seven/eight-speed transmissions). Top this off with the certainty paddleshifters are not accessible and the V60 CC driving knowledge feels extremely 2010. 

The Volvo comes standard with an all-wheel drive framework by Haldex, the Swedish organization that knows a thing or two about winter. Unseasonably warm climate in Lake Tahoe kept any genuine testing of the frameworks abilities in antagon istic conditions, yet we did tear around an arch course in a void landing strip. Amid this work out, the Volvo indicated characteristic yet marginally moderate directing and great parity. 

The V60 CC is fitted with a torque-vectoring framework that brakes within wheel to help in cornering and a system of dynamic wellbeing frameworks that convey the vehicle to a granulating end before loss of control can happen. The accentuation here is doubtlessly on strength no matter what and not on tail-glad driving delight. 

2016 Volvo V60 Cross Country Review

The lodge is a well known and agreeable environment, yet as with the mechanical underpinnings, there are signs that things are getting dated. The 7.0-inch screen set at the highest point of the dashboard is little contrasted with the present standard, and the variety of modest catches remains in stark resistance to the moderate methodology brought with the new XC90. 

The 2016 Volvo V60 Cross Country is a bizarre creature. Its a better than average auto, an auto all that much with regards to the producers "Swedish extravagance" ethos and it executes of course. In any case, it feels so dated in examination to the XC90, its as though diverse make rs built up the two vehicles. Whats more, in numerous regards, the "old Volvo" and the "new Volvo" are distinctive