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2022 Volvo V60 Go Nation B5 AWD

Magnificence: Top rate Midsize Automotive

Colour: Onyx Black Metal

Miles pushed: 419

CG Record Card
Room and Convenience	B
Energy and Efficiency	B+
Have compatibility and End	A
Gasoline Financial system	B
Worth	B
Record-card grades are derived from a consensus of test-driver opinions. All grades are as opposed to different automobiles in the similar magnificence. Worth grade is for explicit trim degree evaluated, and would possibly not mirror Client Information’s impressions of all the fashion lineup.
Giant & Tall Convenience
Giant Man	B-
Tall Man	C+
Giant & Tall convenience scores are for entrance seats handiest. “Giant” ranking according to male tester weighing roughly 350 kilos, “Tall” ranking according to 6’6″-tall male tester.
Drivetrain
Engine Specifications	247-hp 2.0L
Engine Kind	Turbocharged mild-hybrid 4-cyl
Transmission	8-speed automated
Pressure Wheels	All-wheel force

Noticed gas economic system: 23.0 mpg

Using combine: 75% town, 25% freeway

EPA-estimated gas economic system: 23/30/26 (mpg town/freeway/blended)

Gasoline sort: Top rate gasoline

Base worth: $54,100 (no longer together with $1095 vacation spot rate)

Choices on examine car: Local weather Package deal ($750), Baggage Duvet ($345), particular paint ($695), energy tailgate ($200), 20-inch alloy wheels with all-season tires ($3200), Bowers and Wilkins top class audio device ($3200),

Worth as examined: $63,585

 

Fast Hits

The nice: Tidy bundle that’s sensible and amusing to force, gorgeous cabin

The great: Excellent energy, Snow Belt-weather in a position, long-trip comfy

The no longer so excellent: Expensive choices, relatively eccentric

 

Tom Appel

I don’t personal a tweed jacket, smoke a pipe, or personal a canine with a center identify. Nor have I noticed Mummenschanz carry out are living or written a fan letter to Spalding Grey, would possibly he leisure in peace.

I do gather jazz CDs on the other hand, and incessantly surprise what I would possibly force if I had been a minimum of fairly rich and had the time and effort to deplete being eccentric. I feel I’d revel in being eccentric. I would possibly spend my days attending library lectures at the historical past of bookbinding between visits to the tea store to test at the standing of my da hong pao order.

And, had been I eccentric, I’d significantly imagine riding a Volvo V60 Go Nation. In a country of shoppers deeply dedicated to proudly owning way more car than they want, the V60 Go Nation comes throughout as a cheeky, derisive chuckle geared toward those that settle for massive, commodity crossovers and SUVs as cheap day by day drivers.

If truth be told, any station wagon acquire is a minimum of a bit of eccentric, as so few stay to be had to American customers. It’s attention-grabbing, too, that what wagons are to be had most commonly include raised journey heights and SUV-salted trim. Imagine the Audi A4 allroad and Mercedes-Benz E450 All-Terrain. Beginning at about $48,000 and $90,000 respectively, the Audi and the Mercedes bracket the V60 Go Nation in worth, which begins round $52,000. This positioning works properly, as eccentrics are prepared to spend cash for what they would like, on the other hand difficult to understand, however draw the road at conspicuous intake.

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Now, there may be the very good Subaru Outback, but it surely’s just a bit too reasonably priced and commonplace to paintings for the actually eccentric, a minimum of those who haven’t been too badly harm making an investment in start-up hemp dispensaries.

For 2023, the Volvo lineup comprises 3 wagons: the compact V60 and V60 Go Nation, and bigger midsize V90 Go Nation. All 3 Volvo wagons come handiest with AWD, and the V60 is obtainable handiest as a plug-in hybrid.

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The V60 Go Nation is obtainable in Plus and Final trim ranges. The bottom Plus begins at $51,190, and is satisfactorily properly geared up to fulfill maximum eccentrics. The simpler-equipped Final pads the base line through $5300, and provides such niceties as ventilated entrance seats, head-up show, more than a few and varied cabin appointment upgrades, and top class Hardon Kardon audio. True audiophiles, the kind that gather import Eastern jazz CDs possibly, will wish to additional improve the audio device to the non-compulsory ($3200) Bowers and Wilkins unit. Whilst this creator isn’t fully certified to check automobile stereos, I will say that that is about the most productive in-car device I’ve ever loved.

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Upgrading to the bigger V90 Go Nation prices rather less than $10,000, and brings with it about 8 cubic toes of additional shipment area and an inch extra rear-seat legroom. Subjectively, the V90’s longer silhouette is more uncomplicated at the eyes, which, we would possibly argue, is antithetical to the eccentric enjoy. Even though in our checking out, the V90’s longer wheelbase (116 inches as opposed to 113) additionally brings it with it a extra comfy and better-settled freeway journey, extra on that during a second.

The place the V60 falls down in eccentricity is the cabin. Whilst the controls are fairly unconventional, the cabin décor leans extra against avant-garde than eccentric. For years, Audi looked as if it would lead the trade in inside design, however lately Volvo has significantly upped its recreation. Judiciously hired rich-looking leather-based and matte-finish steel trim the V60 inside, and the impact is each daring and easy.

As for the controls, we at Client Information proceed our love/hate dating with the elegantly easy—but incessantly irritating—vertical-stack touchscreen interface Volvo now employs in all its automobiles. For easy and evident purposes, the device works lovely properly, and items properly at the center-dash display screen. However for extra sophisticated purposes—like sound/tone keep an eye on—discovering your method calls for each success and prayer. Moreover, whilst the principle purposes are handled to, and manipulated by way of, massive, clean-looking graphics, the lesser purposes are discovered on unpleasant, menu-driven black-and white monitors that glance somewhat like one thing from an Nineteen Eighties junior-college pc magnificence.

Apparently, Volvo infotainment programs at the moment are pushed through Google, an association which sounds peculiar, however in follow works lovely properly. We discovered programing the navigation programs easy and easy. That mentioned, we suspect some drivers will to find announcing “Whats up Google” as a substitute of “Whats up Siri” complicated to start with.

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Powering each Go Nation fashions is Volvo’s new B5 engine. The brand new 2.0-liter engine is turbocharged and mated to a mild-hybrid device. The B5 engine produces 247 horsepower and is obtainable handiest with an 8-speed automated transmission. With the B5 engine, the V6 Go Nation is rated at an estimated 26 blended MPG, a 1-mpg growth over the non-hybrid 2022 V60 Go Nation.

At the street, the V60 Go Nation most commonly impresses. The small turbo/hybrid engine works with out fuss, and offers a variety of helpful and most commonly seamless energy. That mentioned, the engine is a bit of loud and coarse at this worth level, a factor which would possibly qualify as eccentric, or could also be only a only a demerit.

The ’60 settles in properly at the freeway, although the journey by no means feels fairly sumptuous. The long-drive V60 Go Nation enjoy is healthier described as enticing than silky–subtle within the old-school, more-road-feel Ecu custom. There’s a typically subtle really feel to the V60 Go Nation that we predict maximum eccentrics would respect, although like maximum Volvos of present antique, the auto may just use much more steerage really feel.

This somewhat massive editor may just additionally use relatively better front-door openings, however that’s simply me. As soon as within, I discovered a variety of area, and loved a two-hour force from Palatine, Illinois to Janesville, Wisconsin without a court cases. Rear-seat area is a bit more restricted, and a full-size grownup would to find area in need of at the back of me with the driving force seat adjusted totally aft. If you happen to’re searching for a smoother journey and extra 2^nd-row folks area, imagine transferring as much as the V90, even it if is rather less quirky.

In Client Information checking out, we averaged a reported 23 mpg, respectable making an allowance for the facility, however a bit of disappointing making an allowance for our time at the freeway.

The 2023 V60 Go Nation does no longer come reasonable, particularly when as properly geared up as our examine automobile. However this can be a sporty, practical, properly appointed wagon with actual foul-weather capacity and a whole lot of shipment area. Possibly most significantly, it’s no longer a crossover, a factor which must attraction to the all well-heeled quiescent eccentrics wanting a brand new automobile available in the market. Oh, and if my canine did have a center identify, it will be Spalding.

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