I am in a tough spot, turning 75 years old in Dec. and my old back is complaining when I get in or out of my beloved 2014 Corvette. My wife has driven Volvos for years. The last one is a 2018 S60 T5 AWD Polestar and when I get to drive it I find it really nice. Last week she had picked up a nail in a tire so we had to go the Volvo shop and get the tire repaired and recalibrate the pressure alert. While waiting I went for walk around the lot and walked up to a 2024 S60 T8 White Black Ultimate and i was pretty impressed. As I read the sticker i found it was a Used car with only 2,000 miles and they wanted $52,000 for it. Which for us is a hell of lot of money. But when I got home I checked out the value of our two cars, my 2014 Corvette with 12,000 miles is worth $37,400 trade and her 2018 S60 with 18,800 miles is worth $18,000. So we have enough trade value to swap both cars for this 2024 T8 Recharge. Since both our cars are white we like the color of the T8. My Corvette is 460 HP but only weights 3,000 pounds. What gets me is my aging back and the 455 HP AWD Hybrid sounds so good. What would say to me if we could talk about this situation. I have owned 8 Corvettes so I have had a nice run, and we have also owned 6 Volvos. We always feel safe in the Volvo and I really wanted AWD Hybrid in a Corvette but that E Ray model costs $120,000. Well that is way out of my capability. But trading two cars for one, that is 455 HP, AWD, Hybrid with 40 Mile range, and recharges, it all sounds pretty Darn good for us at this time. She may never get to drive again!!??! Thank You for the review, its a beauty. Any word on long term reliability? Dennis in Virginia
4.6 seconds out of a little 2 liter and a battery. Just 20 years ago, this much horsepower and performance was found in big block V8 vehicles. The car market has come a LONG way!
Great looking car and the acceleration is almost unbelievable to me. I'm old enough to remember when a 15 second quarter mile was fast. Hope Volvo keeps the hybrid drivetrain alive and changes their mind about all electric. This is way cooler than the equivalent battery-only powerplant.
31 miles per gallon is way off. I own a 2023, traded a 2022 S60 T8 for it, 20,000 total miles. Plugged them in every night, the ‘22 got 58 over the year, the ‘23 is getting 98 since Nov 1. Of course the electricity costs money, about 17 cents per kWh, but had that money bought gasoline the 2023 would be getting 61 miles per gallon! There’s something seriously wrong with the way these cars are evaluated . Driven normally, the electric motor is more than ample around town, assuming you’re not hotdogging it from every stop sign. Consider that these motors have maximum torque at zero RPM, this makes all the difference. Several times a month I make a 178 mile trip from Pennsylvania to Maryland and back. The car gets 55 miles per gallon on this trip. If one bothers to read the manual, one finds that if the trip or round-trip is entered in navigation, the battery is apportioned over the entire trip. How else would car and driver get 41 miles per gallon at 75 miles an hour for 200 miles (2020 40,000 mile evaluation)?? We need to remember that the anointed ones love EVs, PHEVs not so much, because the good is the enemy of the perfect.
I want to do the same thing that I did to my 2017 V60 to this. High flow downpipe and air filter, Bilstein struts, and an intercooler. Not a lot, but just enough.
Nice but I miss when Volvos were the The Brick. I had a V70R in the late 90s. Now that was a sleeper car., Even with the rear spoiler and ground effects. I had other parent's who drove minivans ask me about my "R".
My 2014 srt 300 black edition has run 12.91@ 111mph bone stock and has gotten 29mpg/hyw. There is replacement for displacement but I'd still take my 6.4
I prefer cars and as such, recently leased a new 2024 S60 Recharge. Such a wonderful car! It also helps that the car qualifies for the $7500 tax credit, making this car a better buy than the regular gas model. Considering I mostly use it to go to work and back and the fact that I live close to work, I have yet to put gas in the car. Every other day I plug it in and charge it. Just yesterday I read an article that Volvo has decided to cancel the S60. Such sad news! I don't agree that everyone has to have a SUV! Yes, they are nice, but the sedan version is usually less expensive, more efficient, better handling and more performance than its SUV counterpart. The sedan makes more sense to me today with car prices being so high as well as interest rates. Unless people are forced to get an electric, guess we'll have to wait for gas prices to go up to the point where the average person struggles to put gas in their vehicles before the sedan becomes popular once again.
I own one, and had a 2022 last year. When a PHEV battery gets low it becomes a NON plug in hybrid. In this car there’s always a reserve for AWD or acceleration.
Id like a new kind of test for these vehicles... Simulate driving for 100k miles and see which models have issues. We never learn about reliability until it's too late.
@@tedunguent156 well, you could have a robot drive it on a loop track, with bumps and potholes, accelerating and decelerating, shifting gears in the process, and determine which vehicles are in better shape after x mile intervals
@@andy42x Automotive manufacturers do long term testing before they put vehicles into production. People who review automobiles don't have the resources or the time for what you suggest.
@@tedunguent156 yeah. That's the snag. To have independent/ non biased testing early to gauge longer term reliability would be awesome, as maybe a manufacturer knows that their engines or transmissions are prone to issues after a certain point, but they are ok with that risk, if it will likely fall outside the warranty period. I don't trust the manufacturers.
I've driven both and own the 2023, the biggest difference is how it feels in EV mode. It's easier to stay in EV mode, and the power you get from it is more than enough for full drives, even on the freeway/highway. You no longer need to trigger the gas engine for onramps, and you can maintain EV mode up to 87 mph, meaning for most drives as long as they're around 40 miles you can fully drive in EV mode. Of course the extra torque and HP makes it feel a bit faster, but it's not drastically faster then the Polestar edition of the 2020 model.
This Volvo is proof that Hybrid technology is the way to go for vehicles. Having huge integrated batteries you sit on and make you sit and wait to charge the vehicle is not convenient. What about a mother with a couple of young kids sitting an hour to "quick charge" the vehicle. Or the added time on a road trip. A friend rented a Tesla from Ohio to Florida and it added 5 hours to the already 15 hour drive time one way. As long as EV's are using batteries for their electric, and the fact they cost 3 times more make them not a very practical piece of transportation. In my town, there are only 4 long term/overnight charge stations available to the public. 25 miles to next nearest.
It’s a trend that comes and goes, it’s always been like that. For example, Volkswagens from the early 2000s had hidden exhaust tips, except for higher performance or sportier models. I drive a 2004 Saab 9-5 Arc with hidden exhaust tip. The higher performance Aero model had a visible tailpipe.many cars in the 80s and 90s also had hidden tips, mostly for a sleeker, more luxurious look.
Tru but people don't usually drive with the hood open and with their face in front of the engine lol Volvo has always done a great job of soundproofing their cars
"Perfect for those looking to go electric now, but don't want to have to plan their weekend getaway around finding a plug" - proves that Motorweek know NOTHING about the battery-electric revolution that has already taken place in the USA. America's top-selling vehicle of any type is the Model Y. America's top-selling premium sedan is the Model 3. Neither of which have been featured on Motorweek FOR YEARS, and neither of which you spend time "finding a plug." The charging solutions are built into the screen and navigation. Motorweek appears to not know that - or they deliberately want you to think it is difficult.
Or people are simply not a Tesla elitist like you..... Tesla has issues too no company is perfect...their issues with battery fires is a big concern...... Volvo does not have any such problems reported with its battery system....
@@truckercowboyed2638 battery fires? I see you have yet to graduate from Internet Troll School. Get better facts next time. BEVs catch fire much less than ICE cars. And Tesla fires are much less than the other BEV brands. I agree Volvo BEVs aren't known for fires. But to be honest... BEV fires are scarce and not a problem. More a dream of the pro-ICE media than anything else
I notice that this video sneaks in the lower prices - starting at $42,395 - of the GASOLINE ONLY base version of the S60 which Motorweek does NOT test in the video. Probably by dealership request. The base version of America's most popular premium sedan - the Tesla Model 3 - starts BELOW that gasoline-only base price... $40,240. And that's without government incentives that can get the price BELOW $30,000. The Tesla Model 3 performance with its 0-60 time of 3.1sec is $53240 - before government incentives that can get the price as low as $42,740. Volvo's trunk space = 11.6cu.ft.. Tesla Model 3 truck space = 23cu.ft.. This Volvo hybrid is overpriced & uncompetitive compared to America's top-selling premium sedan!
But my S60 Recharge doesn't look like a handheld vacuum cleaner (also electric). Also, I like having a choice, two ways to propel my car, twice as many as all the rest.
@@billurban1581 you're right. Twice as many is better. Twice the number of parts to go wrong... twice the opportunities for stealerships to stick it to you for "maintenance" on two powertrains - and twice the number of parts impinging into your passenger space... leaving you with less cargo space. Model Y 76cu.ft. Volvo S60 PHEV 63cu ft.. But I guess you don't carry too much
@MartinGalway Thanks for the thoughtful but biased reply. Regarding the logic of PHEVs vs EVs, I defer to Akio Toyoda, former CEO of Toyota, who estimated an 8 to 1 ecological advantage for the PHEV. Do you give these multi trillion dollar issues, - any thought? Regarding hybrid parts, maintenance, and "stealerships" I suggest researching the Prius, to this day one of the most successful automotive introductions ever, with extremely high user satisfaction. The Prius even added the complexity of a CVT! (Personally I prefer my 8 speed.) I put 146K trouble free miles on an '07 Prius then the next owner reported his satisfaction with the car. , more refined, in 2023. Consider too that with 100K on the odometer my ICE might have 25K.
@@eddieg6436 Nope. Still headquartered in Sweden however I will say that Geely (Chinese) did rescue the Volvo car division from American (Ford). If you can recall how restricted and contrained Volvo cars division was while with Ford. It was almost like Saab was with GM. It seemed like the goal of Ford and of GM was to strip away a lot of the Swedishness.
