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Rating from RICHADA 4 Stars ()

Advantages Style, performance, comfort, good economy for performance, well built

Disadvantages Not S60 prime model

Right up front I am going to confess that I am writing this as a slightly frustrated non-Volvo S60 driver. Strange statement that don't you think but there we are out here in the big bad world we do not always get what we want…….

…….and we (Mrs Richada and I) really wanted a Volvo S60, but not as it happens, this the most powerful 220bhp 2.4 litre T5 Sport version. 15 years ago I would have not looked at a Volvo fullstop. However if the S60 had then been on the market, this the fastest one would have been my natural choice.

Maturity and certain financial commitments now mean that I am inclined to make far more rational choices when it comes to choosing a car, no matter if I pay for it, or is currently the case I have a free choice of company car up to a given budget.

Part of my maturity also gives me pangs of conscience at the idea of running any car that is not capable of driving
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at least 30 miles on each gallon of fuel, day in and day out, under all driving conditions. I'm no "save the planet" campaigner, I just honestly believe that here in 2005 there are so many superb motorised choices available which can offer you a very good drive and make the best use of our declining oil stock.

How does a Volvo S60 review fall in with the above thinking? Well Volvo are actually a highly enlightened company when it comes to power choices for their stylish upper-mid range four door saloon. There are three choices of petrol engines, starting at a perfectly adequate 180bhp 2.0 litre (31.7mpg average consumption - pretty good), through a 217bhp 2.5 litre (31mpg) to this the 220bhp 2.4 litre, which according to Volvo will still average a highly respectable 30.4mpg.

Those Volvo aficionados reading this are going to tell you that I have missed three models out here. Firstly there is the much more specialised and rare road burning S60R which has 252bhp and four wheel drive, I have not actually driven one of those, but trust the opinion of the writers who have and take their word for it that I would not enjoy the experience.

View if you like, the S60R as the ideal car for the type of customer who pays £3000 for a top of the range PC and all the accessories to go with it and then proceeds to use it exclusively to do their weekly Tesco shop on line! In other words, it is the car for someone who just has to have the most expensive version available.

More relevant for those company car drivers amongst us are the other two options Volvo are offering - the dual fuel versions. You can order a 2.4 S60 with an engine that runs on CNG (Compressed Natural Gas - difficult to find in the UK) and another set up to run on LPG (Liquid Petroleum Gas - now becoming much more widely available). This is rather a swings and roundabouts exercise, both of these models are naturally more expensive than the simpler petrol version, they do have petrol tanks as well as suitable (very important this!) FACTORY INSTALLED gas containers. This makes them heavier, slower and less economical than the straight petrol version.

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    Entertainingly written as ever Richard :~) xXx

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