Fifth Gear Web TV - Volvo C30 Road Test 

Well you don't buy a volvo for excitement. Safety and sophistication is the name of the game.

For those wanting practicality and economy, get the diesel. For those wanting speed, acceleration and great handling, and don't care about economy, get the 2.5 litre R-Design. But please don't test drive the diesel version whilst comparing it to the Scirocco. The diesel and R-Design are two entirely different vehicles with only one thing in common - great looks.

Great review, thanks Vicki

drives a diesel Volvo ... complains about engine noise @ 4k rpm at lower speed ! This is wrong on so many levels ... Love the car though !

Pity they didn't build the Polestar AWD version as i'd of loved one in Swedish Racing Green !!!

"Its not as fast as you would hope" Well duh, who buys a diesel for performance?

Great show ... please come back on T.V again.

My then favorite car presented by my favorite Vicky. Now, i own the car :))

YAY! Volvo's are good looking again! :D

I like it , looks fun for a trip in New England

Nice..... I think i would still go for the R-Design model

I need Vicky to come drive my C70 - just for her opinion of course!

@michiel1551 that was the same thing I thought. This car is still exciting for me. Bring it!

i love you vicki

Great car

@phantomloita Waiting to shift till the red line is VERY inefficient.. You actually get way more torque at lower RPM.. so it's better to shift faster.

The presentation skills of the host are a lot more pleasant than the car!

the 2006-present Volvo C30 is assembled in Ghent, Belgium

oh my god why would you start the car like that..

@ov010 Well the BMW is more costly to fix if something does go wrong, and I think the Volvo is more special because it's unique. I personally like the Volvo's styling way more than the BMW even though the BMW is a pretty car.

@michiel1551 ... I do sometimes, intentionally ofcourse, noisy is ok if the noise is the engine at that rpm

My 2008 1.6 Petrol C30 is as slow an aging snail. But I didn't buy it for speed. I bought it for it's looks.

that centre console is cool

I love her

I got a c30 r with the T5 and polestar tune. It makes 250hp. But a c30 without a T5 just isn't much a c30

@MacGyver920 Only the money is chinese, but volvo is completely built and engineered in sweden.

@Molinkintov All diesels sounds like canal boats starting up cold. They still shift though.

Couldn't agree more.

I wish we had the diesel option here in North America... All we get is the 2.5 t5 which gets 29 miles per us gallon highway....ick.

Well the newer ones are certainly much more fun than even the ones 7 years ago. Mabey the new S60 can bring even more fun into the Volvo family. Suposedly, it's the "funnest" Volvo ever. But about the diesels, they can't come because few people would buy them and on top of that they don't meed U.S. emistions regulations. Have you drivin one of the 2010 C30s?

@michiel1551 As a reviewer, I doubt she cared about fuel consumption. Besides, I love the growl of my Volvo and even though I try to be conservative on the gas pedal most times, even my foot slips every once in a while! :P

Yo probably getting this car soon as my first car, so is it woth to get 1.8 or just go for the 2.0 or 2.5?

its named after a wind like lots of other vws and in that case she has the correct pronunciation but when you are talking about the car it is said with a SH

@ProXen4 Their engines are built by Yamaha, which is Japanese, not Chinese.

@srt4crazy289 the only thing i didn't agree with is that you were giving the people the impression that diesel engines can't be fast, and deliver performance, while at the same time being VERY economical. The price you pay for cars like you mention is big, and the price you pay everyday for fuel even bigger. To me, it's just personal choice of using your wallet frequently.

Macgyver920 is wrong on many counts, in particular it's worth noting that the engines are not all Japanese - the 2.0D in this one is the ford/PSA lump and so built in Europe somewhere. Maybe one or more of the NA petrols are shared with Mazda (the 3 is the same floor pan as the C30 and the previous gen focus). The 2.5 T5 engine is not Japanese. Ps. The C30 is made is Belgium.

@michiel1551 Then again she said red line was at only 4.5k, which isn't hard to get to!

i like the volvo c30

What was Volvo's policy for addressing safety recalls? Precisely airbags. Did Volvo put to its customers the idea of putting their lives at risk by driving the vehicle to the dealership to get the airbags replaced?

I've just realised that Vicky actually looks like a sister of Viggo Mortensen (maybe it's that Anderson, Scandinavian ancestry...) BTW: GREAT FIFTH GEAR CAN BE NOW SENN IN HIGH QUALITY OR HIGH FIDELITY... brilliant. One was tired of having to watch other programmes just because 5G looked like mobile phones videos.

@r4Dioo Yes it is.

Volvo rules

Nice alternative as a baby hatch for blokes who don't like girly cars like the Beetle, Mini or Fiat 500 !!!

I know, but the whole point of a diesel is changing up soon to keep your fuel consumption down.

@geoffp13 Yup! Most car reviews say the same thing.

@DamirKedzo Yeah, exept all the new concept cars, which Volvo actually CLAIM are Scandinavian design, even though it's all Chinese.

Noisy at the red line? who ever goes to the red line in a diesel?

1. You CAN'T compare a car like that with Fiat 500, it's two different types of cars. 2. Why combine the R-chassis and a small engine? Not many people at all would do that after testing the R-chassis and the standard with this engine. 3. DON'T SIT ON THE HOOD it's a new car!! Who does that??

tell me about it i coulden't keep my foot off the gas pedal in my 940Turbo

I'm torn between the volvo c30 (the 1.6 & 1.8 petrols aren't worth getting) and bmw 1 series (the smaller engines more powerful than volvos)

ignition still needs to use a key while competitors doesn't need a key to start the engine.

@ProXen4 Haven't heard that one before... Their new concept cars, such as the Volvo Concept Universe for example, are designed in China by Chinese designers, and all Volvo engines are Japanese. The Americans managed to ruin Saab, and now Volvo as well.

@sorenslothe Yep

I'm tweaking mine to 450hp as we speak

3:08 made me hot,looks like vicky knows how to hold it ^^

Try a t5 then, what was you expecting??

My friend in uni has one, R design too. Bastard.

nope drove a '07 Back when they came out... hugley disapointed. diesel's don't have to be tested like cars do... and the european diesles are way cleaner then american diesles... 850R i think will remain the funnest car from Volvo but we'll see.

Mommentum?

Why is she bangin on about redlining a diesel? I like Vicki's presenting of cars, but this was ok Not a massive fan of the black bumper arches, I much prefer colour coding and not changing the back seems like a cop out when they have done a good job of the front.... It looks alrite!

She nailed it Volvo dose make great cars... but theres no exitment past the styling... Volvo needs t oimport some Diesels to the USA, and they need there top modle to be able to race the varry top of the cars in questions segment. so the S40 and S60 aginst the M3... but will it happen? NO! Why? volvo and there Damn practicality. go ahead and keep your practical car but if there going to offer a R Design then they need to but a turbo V8 under the hood and give some life and fire to the chassi

you can compare a c30 to a VW golf or something like that but not with a scirocco ... I mean look at the price ^^

Dose her mouth keep dislocating?

When the Diesel started, I threw up in my mouth alittle.

Best Looking Volvo since the 1800! Forget the diesel yuck

go test a washing machine vbh. or build a car with your fem friends so we can review it. lovely car so just ignore this has beens view on it.

Bad cut at 3:42 :-)

@michiel1551 anyone who doesn't want to be late?

why do you drive the diesel and then complain that it's not exciting enough? If you want exciting, then you should have driven the T5. That's why they make that one.

@srt4crazy289 lets see you drive along when im driving a 335d on the highway... :)

I like this car, but in the US it isn't economical. it comes off as a fat, lazy, inefficient car. For the money one could purchase a Mini or a really nice upcoming Focus. They need to shed about 500 lbs from this car at least, and amp up the efficiency and performance.

If only she turned the dstc off ! She would of had some fun then .............

Who the hell drives at 4500 rpm?????

Fuck me that consol is noiiiiice

@slickvguy I was looking into this car could not find any infromation for Top gear apart from the one they will never make so i see this link and see this she made the car look shit this is a example showing that woman advertising car's is not a good thing.

it's pronounced SHirocco not ssirocco

Uk are 50 years behind in time.

I had drive this car but : the suspension are too soft and the sport suspension are too hard and you lost the funny dinamic of the car ! The diesel have the Double Disc Clutch that is completely ANTI-SPORT becouse you have a kick every change of gear ! I think volvo have a confused idea how to do a sport car ! Interior... you can' t see that !

@MacGyver920 What are you talking about? Volvo is built in Sweden? Volvo is all Sweden it's owned by a chinese company. Don't talk about think you don't know nothing about.

Volvo is designed and built in sweden the chinese company geely bought the company and just invests money in volvo and recieves profit

@MacGyver920 No the engine's is not chinese. Dude i work at Volvo, stop talking about stuff you don't know anything about like i said before. Please... Accept when you are wrong...

i like the girl.........................

If I'm completely honest. That back end looks like sh*t, but everything else is fine.

why is that a floating console...? look up floating in the dictionary and you will see that it really is not "floating". It would be nice if people would stop calling it that. ...it is a bridging console; or a thin console with a gap behind... or something; other than floating.

The car is slow and she's just using a figure of speech, plus its a vampire ride, eww.

i still insist that volvos are lame

@MacGyver920 Dude, no. The ONLY engine that is built by Yamaha is the V8 No other. I can give you cred for that one. All the other engines are built in Vetlanda, Göteborg (Sweden) Now stop acting like you now a shit about Volvo.

Just wanted to say that you are a really good looking woman and even if im maybe 15 years younger i find you pretty attractive. Thanks for the review!

Why are you driving on the wrong side

@ProXen4 Whatever. They're just pointless, boring pieces of Swedish/Chinese hardware anyway.

Volvo car with a garbage Peugeot engine 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

I clicked on this video, saw Vicki Butler-Henderson and clicked off.