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Written by Ollie Kew
Volvo has applied the Cross Country treatment to its handsome small estate car, the V60. TopGear is reliably informed that this does not mean being told to don short-shorts and plimsolls and run laps of the school playing field until your tears freeze. In Volvo-speak, Cross Country means taking a standard road car and adding ride-height, four-wheel drive and rufty-tufty plastic body armour. The results are always cars we like a lot. You get all the off-road ability most profligate SUV devotees will ever need and a slightly more commanding driving position, without ending up with a two-tonne Canyonero that causes solar eclipses wherever it lumbers. And that costs more to buy, insure, run and even jet-wash than a normal car. If you can do without the truly hearse-like cargo ability of the V90 Cross Country, try this. The specs are as predictable as they are appealing.
Date written: 25 Sep 2018
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ID: 13458
Volvo has applied the Cross Country treatment to its handsome small estate car, the V60. TopGear is reliably informed that this does not mean being told to don short-shorts and plimsolls and run laps of the school playing field until your tears freeze. In Volvo-speak, Cross Country means taking a standard road car and adding ride-height, four-wheel drive and rufty-tufty plastic body armour. The results are always cars we like a lot. You get all the off-road ability most profligate SUV devotees will ever need and a slightly more commanding driving position, without ending up with a two-tonne Canyonero that causes solar eclipses wherever it lumbers. And that costs more to buy, insure, run and even jet-wash than a normal car. If you can do without the truly hearse-like cargo ability of the V90 Cross Country, try this. The specs are as predictable as they are appealing.
Date written: 25 Sep 2018
More of this article on the Top gear website
ID: 13458
