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City Safety provides braking and steering support, adding to the driver’s input when necessary to help avoid an accident. As part of the Advance package, my S60 came with Pilot Assist, Volvo’s “hands-on-the-wheel, eyes-on-the-road” driver assistance system. This system provides steering, distance and speed control in a variety of situations, which can make a long drive much less stressful and fatiguing. The T6 engine makes great power with minimal turbo lag, and no torque steer is felt through the S60’s steering wheel during brisk acceleration. The 8-speed automatic, from Aisin-Warner, shifts smoothly and unobtrusively, and highway cruising in this new Volvo is both comfortable and relaxed.
While the Polestar Engineered has a ton of power, it's the R-Design that delivers the sports sedan.
For reference, the 2019 Volvo S60 originally had a starting sticker price of $36,795, with the range-topping S60 T8 Polestar Engineered Inscription Sedan 4D starting at $56,395. Unless otherwise noted, all vehicles shown on this website are offered for sale by licensed motor vehicle dealers. By accessing this website, you agree to the TrueCar Terms of Service and Privacy Policy.
Interior
With its low hood and short rear deck, the 2019 Volvo S60 looks like a modern sedan shaped in the wind tunnel, but it’s a handsome design that’s still very much a Volvo. Notable details include attractive sculpting on the hood and sides of the car, along with T-shaped LED “Thor’s Hammer” front driving lights. In back, dual chromed exhausts are on duty beneath LED taillights that emphasize the width of the new S60. If there’s any doubt this car is a Volvo, a big badge in the middle of the diagonally bisected grille leaves no doubt. Also, in a neat trick, Volvo stylists have made it look as if the grille floats inside the S60’s front opening.
Engine & Transmission
Cobus has never been able to keep his car opinions to himself and at age 12, he expressed them in no uncertain terms to a certain motoring magazine’s editor. THE T8 HYBRID POWERTRAINWhen you order the T8 powertrain, you get a turbocharged and supercharged 2.0-liter gasoline engine with 313 horsepower, along with a rear-mounted electric motor that has 87 horsepower. That makes for an especially quick S60, a plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV) that’s as fast as it is efficient. The T6 received a 302-hp version of the 2.0L with both super- and turbocharging. The R-Design at first retained its 325-hp turbo-six, but both five- and six-cylinder powertrains were soon dropped.
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But to access most of the car’s adjustments is a little overwhelming at first. You’ll have to do some math to compare that to covering the lease, insurance, taxes and maintenance on anything else you’re considering, but it’s promisingly competitive. It’s basically Apple Care and the iPhone upgrade program all in one, but, you know, a car. Something you can drive, not something that makes you irrationally mad at somebody in a blue shirt. I even think the smaller proportions makes the design language edge out the S90.
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2019 Volvo S60 T6 Momentum: What We Learned on a California Road Trip.
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The now-familiar four-tile layout still works like a dream, with familiar tablet gestures (pinch and pull, swipe, etc.) working just like they should. Bluetooth hands-free and audio streaming are standard, as are Apple CarPlay and Android Auto (both of which require a USB connection). The S60 Inscription, also with the 250-horsepower 2.0-liter, builds on that with bright chrome window trim and driftwood inlays, together with 4-zone climate control and power front seats that offer lumbar support and power-cushion extensions.
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Sedans may be out of fashion right now, but I’m here to sing their praises – in particular, I’m here to praise the 2019 Volvo S60 T6 AWD R-Design that I drove for a week recently. While crossover SUVs are all the rage for their carrying capacity, taller stance and off-road pretensions, sedans win when it comes to elegance, lower center of gravity, and ability to conceal and secure cargo. Compared to the XC60, S60’s midsize equivalent in the Volvo lineup, the S60 T6 AWD delivers objectively superior fuel economy (21 mpg city/32 mpg highway/25 mpg combined for S60 vs. 21 mpg city/27 mpg highway/23 mpg combined for XC60) and subjectively better handling. This tester is the T6 AWD R-Design model, which starts at $46,400 and features the S60’s second-most powerful engine – a trick 2.0-liter four-cylinder engine that’s both turbocharged and supercharged to produce 316 horsepower.
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2019 Volvo V60 T6 AWD Inscription Test Drive And Review: State Of The Wagon.
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From a design standpoint, these screens integrate perfectly, avoiding the tacked-on look of some competitors. Beyond the three powertrains, the S60 also gets the Momentum, R-Design and Inscription trim levels. The Momentum is the lower trim level available on the T5 and T6 models. These come with 18-inch wheels, Android Auto and Apple CarPlay, eight-inch touchscreen, and a panoramic sunroof standard. Every S60 comes with City Safety, a suite of driver assistance features that includes collision avoidance and mitigation with other vehicles, with cyclists, with pedestrians and with large animals.
T8 Polestar Engineered Inscription Sedan 4D
Best of all is the optional set of 19-inch R-Design wheels that sets the perfect tone for this car’s mission. If you want to adjust the heads-up display, for example, you swipe to the right on the main screen, where you’re ambushed by rows and rows of icons for just about every function on the car. This is how most of the adjustments are made (happily not stuff like wiper speed, as on a Tesla Model 3). That includes the safety alerts, engine start-stop, rear-headrest remote folding, and cruise control settings. All cars come with automatic emergency braking, forward collision warning, and cross-traffic alert and braking, drive-mode selection, road-sign information in Volvo’s new digital driver display standard, and the Pilot Assist semi-autonomous system standard.
The M440i and 430i now benefit from mild-hybrid technology, improving engine response and efficiency. It’s also just as solid on the road and in the bends as the Polestar was, and I’m confident I could have pushed it a lot harder than possible on most of the roads we drove on. It’s a Volvo that wants to have fun, even if the squeezing seatbelt has the potential to rupture a bladder if you even think about getting a little bit of air. Ultimately the Polestar left me wanting more, though I’d like to drive one again, with fewer cops around next time.
The vertical central screen is huge with crisp graphics and a powerful-enough processor to keep pace with inputs, while the flat menu structure of three screens that you swipe left or right to access is ingenious. Impressively, this screen and the Sensus infotainment with navigation is standard on all S60s. Apple CarPlay and Android Auto come standard on every S60 as well, as does a hands-free trunk, keyless entry, a parking assist system for both parallel and perpendicular spots, and an air filtration system. As mentioned, the even larger 12.3-inch driver’s display that houses the digital gauges and gives redundant access to main parts of the Sensus infotainment system is equally impressive, though it’s not available on the base T5 FWD Inscription model. When the first of the Volvo S60 generations burst onto the scene in 2000, it was only the second Volvo to follow the Swedish automaker’s new corporate design language previewed by the 1992 ECC concept car and launched as the 1998 S80 large sedan.
