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.