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2009 Volvo XC70 T6, Part Three
Why you should buy the 2009 Volvo XC70 T6: Frankly, the world scares you. You've got three great kids and you'll do your best to guarantee that nothing happens to them between your gated community and their Montessori school. Your country club is on the other side of a somewhat bumpy road. You want a Volvo, so why not get a ridiculous one?
Why you shouldn't buy this car: You see this for what this is: the Volvo "Cross Country Club" and not an SUV. You could find a better use for $40K. You like your kids but, honestly, you survived in the back of a Country Squire with no seatbelts and a rust hole in the floor and you turned out all right. If you have to get a Volvo station wagon, you'll track down a classic diesel boxy wagon.
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12:40 PM on Fri Oct 10 2008
By Matt Hardigree
1,621 views, 23 commentsMost discussed Mad_Science: Dude, treehugers will be all over this car. Nevermind that it gets mileage on par with a Jeep Cherokee (RIP) more »
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2009 Volvo XC70 T6, Part Two
Exterior Design: ***
The 2009 Volvo XC70 T6 is one of the best looking Volvos currently made, which sounds like it could be a dig but isn't at all intended that way. The classically strange Swedish proportions combined with the elevated height and dark plastic cladding accented by satin metal create a tasteful effect that makes the regular V70 wagon the XC is based on look like the odd-man out. This is a marked improvement over the previous generation, which looked like a Volvo wagon with Honda Element ground effects glued onto the body.
Interior Design: ****
Half the fun of owning a Volvo is the quirkiness. They've rarely been able to compete with the other premium automakers on design, materials, usability or features. But they're different. The XC70 is a bit too modern, a bit too soft and a bit too well designed to be a Volvo. The center stack floats above the tunnel, which isn't quirky so much as just different. Thank God for the bizarre controls, which include adjusting air distribution by punching a graphic of a little reclining man in the crotch, and a built-in number pad, something most automakers abandoned in the early 1990s.
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12:30 PM on Thu Oct 9 2008
By Matt Hardigree
2,081 views, 30 commentsMost discussed brandegee: Why anyone would drop $10K over a nicely-equipped Subaru Legacy wagon on this is beyond me. But then I don't more »
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2009 Volvo XC70 T6, Part One
No amount of training or 24-hour news coverage-watching prepares you for the sight of your city, your home, suddenly transformed into a disaster area. Having recently moved back to Houston after a couple of years in Chicago, I made it just in time for Hurricane Ike to knock me around like a sack of potatoes. With power out, debris everywhere and traffic lights no longer functioning, it was by luck that the car I had scheduled to review was the 2009 Volvo XC70 T6, a vehicle safe enough for even the world's most paranoid soccer moms.
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1:00 PM on Wed Oct 8 2008
By Matt Hardigree
3,292 views, 28 commentsMost discussed Dr.Danger, I run the Death Star: So how many cases of two-buck chuck can you fit in there? more »
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The Volvo XC70chero Brings The Dream To Sweden
There's a stanza in a Stephen Malkmus song that goes "And the trashed young Scandi mistook me for a Swede. her slurred medieval accent was like a puddle at my feet. You could see chopped tobacco in her teeth." This made us wonder if Swedish people actually were into chewing tobacco and, by extension, if there were Swedish rednecks... because where there are rednecks there are El Caminos. Did this mean that there were Swedish El Caminos? Indeed. Here's a prime example of an XC70chero (owned by Ford) looking awesome outside the Volvo Museum. To make it better, it's being pulled by a six-wheel XC90chero. Pinch us.
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Chicago Auto Show: The Volvo XC70 SR Surf Rescue Vehicle, For When Hof Isn't Sober
Somehow we missed this XC70 SR at the SEMA show last year, overwhelmed as we were with things covered in pink carbon fiber. Unless you've passed out due to blood loss from a shark attack, you'll notice the five-inch lift and 20-inch wheels. While the XC70 SR sports the ubiquitous (on concept trucks) LED lightbar, it also features a unique and attractive set of blue strobes integrated into the fog light assembly, the mirrors and the rear light clusters. With scuba tanks, oxygen tanks, a first aid kit and a resuscitator box integrated into the rear cargo, it's all you need to save drowning tourists. We like it, but we're a little disappointed that the lifeguards won't be forced to make slow motion runs into strong headwinds in order to save us.
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2:30 PM on Thu Feb 7 2008
By Matt Hardigree
855 views, 14 commentsLatest by gadgetfanatic: Nice. more »
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Volvo Safety System Makes Assumptions About Your Beverage Preferences
If there is one thing that really grinds my gears, it's when an inanimate object judges me and makes assumptions about my lifestyle. A new safety feature to be included in the 2008 Volvo V70, XC70 and S80 will flash a coffee mug in the middle of the tachometer when it senses your driving is impaired. Despite automatically assuming every Volvo driver loves either coffee, tea, or a hairy mug, the system senses your alertness and level of impairment in a pretty unique way. More »
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