26 February 2009 - 11:00
Small change
There’s a new Volvo S80 heading to Geneva next week. Well, not new exactly. But quite substantially different. OK, a little bit different.
The facelifted sort-of-5-Series-rival gets a more distinctive front end – which wasn’t a tough thing to achieve, what with the current S80 being as distinctive as a lentil in a great big pot of lentils – with a larger badge and some extra chrome. You’d spotted that already, obviously.
Inside, there’s a bit more leather and shiny metal, giving the S80’s cabin the ambience of a wealthy hip-hop cow.
More excitingly, you can now get your S80 with the new higher-powered version of Volvo’s ‘D5’ five-cylinder turbodiesel, which develops 205bhp and 310lb ft of torque while returning 46mpg and 164g/km of CO2 – near-identical to the BMW 525d and very respectable figures for a car of this size.
“The new S80 should not just be seen, it has to be experienced,” says Volvo CEO Stephen Odell. We’ll get all touchy and feely with it in Geneva. Just for you.
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Please, we swedes are sensitive these days about our auto industry :(
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Please, we swedes are sensitive these days about our auto industry :(
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well built,big, kinda sporty brilliant technicly but boring
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No offence to Volvo but all volvos look the same to me apart from the C30 and the XC90. They really need there designs to be special like Saab which have some really nice looking concepts and have some nice cars down the pipeline if they survive the credit crunch
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Tom90 what do you think of the new XC60, I think its quite cool looking.
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It still looks boring. Though i'ld like to see what that s60 concept might turn out to be like. That one does looks pretty cool. And volvo's interior is a nice place to be though...
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the s80 is a beautiful looking car that looks tough, its interior is fantasitc its simple yet interesting. but the best part its not a lexus
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dorcari commented on this article
26 February 2009
Quoting : "164g/km of torque". Won't that be the CO2 emissions ???
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