Comments on: Review: Volvo XC70 http://www.leftlanenews.com/volvo-xc70-review.html Car news, reviews, and specs for the auto-industry Fri, 10 Feb 2012 15:59:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: melias http://www.leftlanenews.com/volvo-xc70-review.html#comment-370534 melias Fri, 04 Apr 2008 02:46:20 +0000 http://www.leftlanenews.com/volvo-xc70-review.html#comment-370534 gilby7, I will pose that question to Volvo, and will hopefully get an answer. I'll post it here at that time. Cheers Mark Elias gilby7,

I will pose that question to Volvo, and will hopefully get an answer. I’ll post it here at that time.

Cheers

Mark Elias

]]> By: gilby7 http://www.leftlanenews.com/volvo-xc70-review.html#comment-370504 gilby7 Fri, 04 Apr 2008 01:46:07 +0000 http://www.leftlanenews.com/volvo-xc70-review.html#comment-370504 I'd love to have one, if it wasn't for the bad mileage they get. Question, and a dumb one at that: Why does Volvo pair up the heated seat buttons/switches/controls all the time? It seems like most other manufacturers give each front (and sometimes, rear) occupants a separate control, either on the console or door or seat or somewhere, not paired up on the dash like that. Just wondering. I’d love to have one, if it wasn’t for the bad mileage they get. Question, and a dumb one at that: Why does Volvo pair up the heated seat buttons/switches/controls all the time? It seems like most other manufacturers give each front (and sometimes, rear) occupants a separate control, either on the console or door or seat or somewhere, not paired up on the dash like that. Just wondering.

]]> By: melias http://www.leftlanenews.com/volvo-xc70-review.html#comment-370242 melias Thu, 03 Apr 2008 16:08:54 +0000 http://www.leftlanenews.com/volvo-xc70-review.html#comment-370242 I am an XM subscriber so I take every chance I can when in a Sirius equipped car to catch up with the king of all media! Mark Elias I am an XM subscriber so I take every chance I can when in a Sirius equipped car to catch up with the king of all media!

Mark Elias

]]> By: cbrejwo http://www.leftlanenews.com/volvo-xc70-review.html#comment-369970 cbrejwo Wed, 02 Apr 2008 16:03:37 +0000 http://www.leftlanenews.com/volvo-xc70-review.html#comment-369970 Love how the tester was listening to Howard 100 on Sirius! Love how the tester was listening to Howard 100 on Sirius!

]]> By: MikeFX http://www.leftlanenews.com/volvo-xc70-review.html#comment-369935 MikeFX Wed, 02 Apr 2008 14:06:35 +0000 http://www.leftlanenews.com/volvo-xc70-review.html#comment-369935 Veda - I have had the new S80 for about a year, and have been happy with it so far. It is actually slightly smaller than last years model, which I heard was part of Volvo's eventual strategy to eliminate the S60. They will eventually end up with the S40, XC60, and the S80. My only problem with the car is that it is very low tech, and more focused on design. Coming from an Infiniti FX, the S80 is somewhat dull. But it has nice lines, and I like that there are not thousands of them on the road like the ubiquitous 5-series or E-class (nice cars, but very expensive, and almost cliches at this point). Veda – I have had the new S80 for about a year, and have been happy with it so far. It is actually slightly smaller than last years model, which I heard was part of Volvo’s eventual strategy to eliminate the S60. They will eventually end up with the S40, XC60, and the S80. My only problem with the car is that it is very low tech, and more focused on design. Coming from an Infiniti FX, the S80 is somewhat dull. But it has nice lines, and I like that there are not thousands of them on the road like the ubiquitous 5-series or E-class (nice cars, but very expensive, and almost cliches at this point).

]]> By: Veda http://www.leftlanenews.com/volvo-xc70-review.html#comment-369897 Veda Wed, 02 Apr 2008 08:51:14 +0000 http://www.leftlanenews.com/volvo-xc70-review.html#comment-369897 Volvos are nice rides but they do appear to have some sort of fatal problems after 3 years or so. Like the flawed brakes of the old S40... I'm actually off to check out the S80 later tonight. Haven't sat in one even if I saw a few in Europe. Volvos are nice rides but they do appear to have some sort of fatal problems after 3 years or so. Like the flawed brakes of the old S40… I’m actually off to check out the S80 later tonight. Haven’t sat in one even if I saw a few in Europe.

]]> By: bigp http://www.leftlanenews.com/volvo-xc70-review.html#comment-369876 bigp Wed, 02 Apr 2008 05:06:20 +0000 http://www.leftlanenews.com/volvo-xc70-review.html#comment-369876 nice the t6 will be even better nice the t6 will be even better

]]> By: jayjc08 http://www.leftlanenews.com/volvo-xc70-review.html#comment-369811 jayjc08 Tue, 01 Apr 2008 23:10:45 +0000 http://www.leftlanenews.com/volvo-xc70-review.html#comment-369811 Looks like it already needs a refresh. I like it, station wagons are my thing, but I'd rather take the Volvo V50, just better looking in my opinion. Looks like it already needs a refresh. I like it, station wagons are my thing, but I’d rather take the Volvo V50, just better looking in my opinion.

]]> By: Htay9500 http://www.leftlanenews.com/volvo-xc70-review.html#comment-369805 Htay9500 Tue, 01 Apr 2008 22:55:38 +0000 http://www.leftlanenews.com/volvo-xc70-review.html#comment-369805 "reliability and depedibility reputation that Ford, I mean Volvo is known for. LLN may be a bit too generous with it's 3.5 score on the interior. I've seen these cars, the interiors are a joke, cheap materials, sloppy build quality, it'll fall apart within a year. The seats remind me of the crappy lawn chairs that Ford uses in a POS Focus. They're not even up to the Standards set by the Chevy Cobalt, let alone a comparable Buick or Saturn. Pathetic pile of trash that could only come from those slimeballs in Europe. Basically your typical Ford product = junk. Comment by Need more oil for GM, posted on April1 at 1" you must be dreaming. “reliability and depedibility reputation that Ford, I mean Volvo is known for.

LLN may be a bit too generous with it’s 3.5 score on the interior. I’ve seen these cars, the interiors are a joke, cheap materials, sloppy build quality, it’ll fall apart within a year. The seats remind me of the crappy lawn chairs that Ford uses in a POS Focus. They’re not even up to the Standards set by the Chevy Cobalt, let alone a comparable Buick or Saturn. Pathetic pile of trash that could only come from those slimeballs in Europe.

Basically your typical Ford product = junk.

Comment by Need more oil for GM, posted on April1 at 1″

you must be dreaming.

]]> By: frankhoffy http://www.leftlanenews.com/volvo-xc70-review.html#comment-369701 frankhoffy Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:01:00 +0000 http://www.leftlanenews.com/volvo-xc70-review.html#comment-369701 I am waiting for the T6. It's the perfect car for the Pacific Northwest. I am waiting for the T6. It’s the perfect car for the Pacific Northwest.

]]> By: MikeFX http://www.leftlanenews.com/volvo-xc70-review.html#comment-369678 MikeFX Tue, 01 Apr 2008 17:20:23 +0000 http://www.leftlanenews.com/volvo-xc70-review.html#comment-369678 I just finished a year in the new S80, which has the same interior, and it looks like the day I drove it off the lot. Not a single problem with the car. So "need more oil" can stuff it up his biased brown-eye. I just finished a year in the new S80, which has the same interior, and it looks like the day I drove it off the lot. Not a single problem with the car. So “need more oil” can stuff it up his biased brown-eye.

]]> By: Need more oil for GM http://www.leftlanenews.com/volvo-xc70-review.html#comment-369666 Need more oil for GM Tue, 01 Apr 2008 17:13:12 +0000 http://www.leftlanenews.com/volvo-xc70-review.html#comment-369666 Disappointing, even before pointing the abysmal reliability and depedibility reputation that Ford, I mean Volvo is known for. LLN may be a bit too generous with it's 3.5 score on the interior. I've seen these cars, the interiors are a joke, cheap materials, sloppy build quality, it'll fall apart within a year. The seats remind me of the crappy lawn chairs that Ford uses in a POS Focus. They're not even up to the Standards set by the Chevy Cobalt, let alone a comparable Buick or Saturn. Pathetic pile of trash that could only come from those slimeballs in Europe. Basically your typical Ford product = junk. Disappointing, even before pointing the abysmal reliability and depedibility reputation that Ford, I mean Volvo is known for.

LLN may be a bit too generous with it’s 3.5 score on the interior. I’ve seen these cars, the interiors are a joke, cheap materials, sloppy build quality, it’ll fall apart within a year. The seats remind me of the crappy lawn chairs that Ford uses in a POS Focus. They’re not even up to the Standards set by the Chevy Cobalt, let alone a comparable Buick or Saturn. Pathetic pile of trash that could only come from those slimeballs in Europe.

Basically your typical Ford product = junk.

]]> By: jackjimturkey http://www.leftlanenews.com/volvo-xc70-review.html#comment-369646 jackjimturkey Tue, 01 Apr 2008 16:44:39 +0000 http://www.leftlanenews.com/volvo-xc70-review.html#comment-369646 I actually like this car. I actually like this car.

]]> By: mayer_ray_nagin http://www.leftlanenews.com/volvo-xc70-review.html#comment-369643 mayer_ray_nagin Tue, 01 Apr 2008 16:43:57 +0000 http://www.leftlanenews.com/volvo-xc70-review.html#comment-369643 Disappointing on the whole. Disappointing on the whole.

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