2019 Volvo S60

2019 Volvo S60

2019 Volvo S60 Volvo Cars, the top class vehicle maker, found out the brand new Volvo S60 mid-size premium sports sedan at the business enterprise's first US manufacturing plant in Charleston, South Carolina.

The new Charleston plant is officially inaugurated. The blended car launch and manufacturing facility beginning enhance Volvo Cars' commitment to the US, an crucial marketplace for the corporation and its new top rate sports sedan. The new Volvo S60 is the primary Volvo vehicle made inside the US.

"The new S60 is one of the maximum interesting Volvo automobiles we have ever made," said Håkan Samuelsson, president and chief executive of Volvo Cars. "It is a real driving force's car that gives us a sturdy position in the US and China sedan markets, growing extra increase possibilities for Volvo Cars."

The new Volvo S60 is the first Volvo automobile to be sold with out a diesel offer, signalling the employer's enterprise-leading commitment to electrification and a protracted-term future past the conventional combustion engine. In 2017 Volvo Cars changed into the primary worldwide car maker to announce its method that from 2019 all new fashions will be electrified.

Two turbo-charged and remarkable-charged plug-in hybrid petrol engines could be available in the new S60: Volvo's T6 Twin Engine AWD plug-in hybrid that generates a combined 340hp, and the award-prevailing T8 Twin Engine AWD plug-in hybrid that delivers 400hp. Volvo's established T5 and T6 petrol engines may be available at release.

In a primary for the segment, clients can access the brand new S60 via Volvo Cars' new premium subscription service Care via Volvo, which gives automobile access and not using a down fee via a monthly flat-charge subscription in preference to ownership. Care via Volvo makes having a automobile as obvious, smooth and problem free as having a phone.

"The energetic chassis and force modes supply terrific manipulate and an engaged performance that makes this a driving force's automobile," stated Henrik Green, senior vice president for studies and development at Volvo Cars. "It additionally brings the acclaimed generation from our ninety Series and different 60 Series vehicles into this segment, making it one of the excellent sports activities sedans available on the market."

The new Volvo S60 stocks Volvo Cars' personal Scalable Product Architecture (SPA) platform, safety era and infotainment gadget with the new V60 top rate mid-length estate, launched earlier this yr, in addition to the one of the best 90 Series vehicles and award-triumphing XC60, all of that have completed enterprise-leading safety ratings. This makes the brand new S60 one of the most secure automobiles on the street.

The City Safety with Autobrake technology assists the driving force in keeping off ability collisions, and is the only system on the market to recognize pedestrians, cyclists and big animals. In a international first for the mid-size sedan segment, City Safety now additionally engages automobile braking to mitigate oncoming collisions.

The non-obligatory Pilot Assist device - which helps the motive force with steerage, acceleration and braking on nicely-marked roads up to 130km/h - has been upgraded with progressed cornering performance. The Volvo S60 also consists of Run-off Road Mitigation, Oncoming Lane Mitigation and other steering assistance structures. The non-compulsory Cross Traffic Alert with autobrake further enhances protection for people outside and inside the auto.

Volvo Cars' Sensus Connect infotainment gadget is completely well matched with Apple CarPlay, Android Auto and 4G, and continues drivers linked always. The intuitive manipulate is a pill-fashion contact display interface that combines vehicle features, navigation, connected services and in-car amusement apps.

Electrified versions of the brand new S60 also offer a overall performance managing upgrade called Polestar Engineered - developed via Volvo Cars' electric overall performance arm, Polestar.

Polestar Engineered is to be had exclusively at the T8 Twin Engine plug-in hybrid and is a entire offer that improvements the automobile's wheels, brakes, suspension and engine manipulate unit, boosting the Volvo S60 T8 combined output to 415hp.

2018 Volvo XC60

2018 Volvo XC60

The new Volvo XC60 is the second one generation of Volvo's premium mid-length SUV, and brings new levels of sophistication, connectivity, performance and safety to the elegance. It is also the first of Volvo's mid-variety 60 collection models to showcase the agency's award-winning new layout language and to be built on its advanced Scalable Product Architecture (SPA) platform.

On the interior, the Volvo XC60 combines elegant Scandinavian layout, top class herbal substances, skilled craftsmanship and the revolutionary Sensus enjoyment and control system to create a modern, costly area in which to journey.

Every XC60 is extremely nicely ready as popular, and comes with all-wheel drive and an automated gearbox. The engines are all Volvo's personal Drive-E gadgets, which give fantastic power and efficiency. The variety incorporates D4 and D5 diesels, a T5 petrol and a petroleum-electric T8 Twin Engine plug-in hybrid. Power degrees from a hundred ninety to 407 hp, with CO2 emissions from as little as forty nine g/km.

The XC60 is likewise the first Volvo with Steer Assist, a technologically superior safety aid that can automatically follow the steering or provide extra guidance enter in an emergency to assist avoid a ability collision.

The new Volvo XC60 is built in Gothenburg, Sweden.

Distinctive, elegant exterior design

The Volvo XC60's striking exterior shows the persevering with development of Volvo's new layout language, as already seen inside the S90 premium saloon, V90 property and XC90 seven-seat SUV.

It has the equal basic standards - clean, simple lines, conventional proportions and putting details - as those different fashions, however introduces new elements to make it even extra exclusive. These encompass Volvo's signature headlights with their T-shaped daylight going for walks lighting fixtures that now amplify proper to the brink of the front grille. The doors even have a heavily sculpted decrease section, while the pronounced ridge that runs from simply above the rear door manage backwards enables deliver the auto an athletic, effective stance.

Aspects of the Volvo XC60's outdoors have additionally been designed to make your existence less difficult. The 'beneath-wrap' doorways, as an instance, increase all the way right down to the lowest part of the car's body, overlapping the sills. Not handiest does this make it simpler to get into and out of the automobile, there's much less danger of having dirty because the door sills are continually clean.

A highly-priced, modern indoors

The XC60's indoors is based totally upon that of the Volvo Concept Estate, from the 2014 Geneva Motor Show. It takes the first-rate of current Scandinavian design and combines it with natural materials which include timber and leather-based to create a complicated and enjoyable surroundings.

Its smooth, elegant design is viable way to the revolutionary Sensus touch display screen control system, which lets in the indoors to be largely free of buttons and switches.

Attention to detail and craftsmanship are visible throughout the Volvo XC60's indoors. From the hand-finished 'drift wooden' indoors inlays of Inscription versions to the diamond-cut rotary manage knobs within the middle of the air vents and the little Swedish flag emblem in the dashboard, the XC60 showcases the satisfactory of Scandinavian luxurious.

Drive-E powertrains: energy with efficiency

Each XC60 is powered by a Volvo-evolved-and-constructed Drive-E powertrain. These all-aluminium engines use advanced injection and boosting generation to make them impressively powerful but efficient.

The engines inside the Volvo XC60 are all 2.0-litre, 4-cylinder gadgets. D4 and D5 diesels are to be had, together with a T5 petrol and a T8 Twin Engine plug-in hybrid that mixes a potent petrol engine with an electric powered motor.

Both the D4 and D5 have  turbochargers that paintings sequentially to provide responsive performance at low and excessive revs. The D5 takes this one degree further with an innovative Volvo-designed machine referred to as PowerPulse. This injects compressed air - that is stored in a small tank in the engine bay - into the path of the first turbocharger to get it spinning when it would otherwise be dormant, consisting of at very low engine revs. This permits the engine to respond as quickly as you press the accelerator, overcoming the momentary put off (known as rapid lag) you may sense in effective turbocharged diesel engines.

The T8 Twin Engine offers an unrivalled blend of overall performance and efficiency. It features a supercharged and turbocharged 320 hp petrol engine that powers the front wheels and an 87 hp electric powered motor that drives the rears. Total electricity output is 407 hp, but CO2 emissions are just forty nine g/km. It is likewise viable to drive for up to 28 miles in electric powered-simplest mode, in close to silence whilst emitting no tailpipe emissions. The T8's 400 V/10.Four kWh high-voltage battery p.C. May be recharged in as low as two and a 1/2 hours the usage of the optional sixteen-amp speedy-charging cable. Fully recharging thru the usual 3-pin plug cable takes among 3 and a half hours (at 10 amps) and 6 hours (at six amps).

Every XC60 comes with an 8-speed computerized gearbox, made by using Aisin-Warner.

Advanced SPA platform

The Volvo XC60 is the first of Volvo's mid-size 60 series models to be built on its Scalable Product Architecture (SPA) platform. Not handiest is this structure surprisingly modular - so its dimensions can be without problems adapted to suit different motors - it's far designed to contain next-technology electrification, connectivity and safety technology as they end up available. SPA is the correct platform from which to build a vehicle with great dynamics.

Based on a deep know-how of Volvo clients, the engineers tuned the XC60's dynamics to be controllable, predictable and cozy, no matter what the road surface or pace. "The XC60 is designed to provide you with 'stimulated confidence'," explains Per Ola Fuxin, Director of Volvo's Vehicle Dynamics Centre. "This is the feeling of the car helping you, of it and also you operating in concord."

R-Design suspension settings

R-Design XC60s include a greater dynamic version of the same old suspension set-up. They characteristic 30% stiffer springs, thicker anti-roll bars (+1 mm) the front and rear, and faster-appearing dampers (shock absorbers) for sportier, more responsive handling.