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Volvo XC60 T8 PHEV SUV – Road Test

17th January 2020

The Volvo XC60 T8 twin engine PHEV large-sized SUV... ...Test-driven by Robin Roberts (and Miles Better News Agency). Volvo saw record UK sales in 2019, led by its SUV family including the XC60 series. Last year British registrations went up 12% to over 56,200 with the compact XC40 taking 15,445 and the XC60 recording 11,766 sales as the brand out-performed some other premium rivals and … [Read more...]

Volvo XC60 – Road Test

7th November 2017

Keith Ward puts Volvo’s latest compact SUV through its paces… VOLVO’s original XC60 compact SUV sold nearly 1m around the world in its nine-year production run, claims to be currently the best-selling premium mid-sized SUV in Europe, and attracts as many as 30 per cent of the Swedish brand’s customers. Thus this second generation version, new for 2017, commands interest. It reflects Volvo’s … [Read more...]

Latest Volvo XC60 – Road Test

12th September 2017

New Volvo XC60 mid-sized SUV First Drive. By David Miles (Miles Better News Agency). When the first generation mid-sized XC60 was introduced in 2008 it didn’t take long for it to become Volvo’s best selling model range and the market leader in its class in Europe, as it was just at the time the SUV market overall was beginning to boom in terms of sales. Today with the introduction of the … [Read more...]

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