Gadgetory

if you don't like pulling up to a red light and seeing your car right next to you then don't buy a three series or a c-class or an a4 if you want to stay here opinion and stay distinctive you might want to look at this guy there's although s60 t5 let's try this 2013 all-wheel-drive version let's check the tech and the first thing you may notice about an s60 especially compared to its competitors is it looks a lot less stodgy really strong coupe eNOS - it's fastback roofline even though it's obviously a sedan like all the guys it competes against these may be the most comfortable seats I've sat in all year not just in a car anywhere these are really great seats because Volvo isn't afraid to put some actual forgiveness in their cushioning most cars today have these seats that are lifted from Quaker pews in old churches and once you get settled in here you're looking at what is sort of a modern rendering of a mid-century Danish ethic albeit in plastic same goes for the interface they have a unique and very nicely rendered language now our car is a little decon tented they didn't send us one with the full Kahuna now this screen even without navigation has your radio choices am/fm HD radio as well and satellite radio under media you're going to find your single CD up here USB and iPod here in the console that iPod readouts pretty good it does a nice job of letting you quickly get to the different ways of sorting your music and again nice display of text bluetooth streaming good metatags show up as you can see right there and of course you've got an aux jack in here as well no nonsense like hard drive or SD cards we need that stuff just the hits a couple of gripes though about the interfaces in this car when you turn the volume why do I need to see a volume graphic over my screen that's just stupid I didn't find a setting to turn that thing off like I have in some cars I hate it and these two LCD displays inside the tach of the speedo really bring down this cabin they did a beautiful job of rendering everything in here and then they go to this 8-bit monochrome thing which is just ugly you can upgrade the audio in these cars to a 12 speaker 650 watt Dolby Pro Logic system which is going to give you all the usual kind of theater sound and I believe DVD playback is what when you're parked check out this shifter on the one choice only six-speed Automatic it's kind of one of those weird things it's clear with an LED you can see inside I don't know where that gets you and it doesn't match the look or design language of the rest of the car you've got a gate over here on the left for shifting as well as that being sport mode if you kick it over there no paddles on the wheel though and Volvo continues to have this weird little peekaboo deal down here behind the console if I put something near you know what happened I'd swear I lost it and I'd go buy another one and then I'd find this one and I'd hate me and Volvo both and this kind of annoys me the wheel does telescope but it only goes from too close to too damn close I can never get it far enough away from me if the green light is steady that means the car is locked if you get a steady yellow it didn't lock it a steady red that means the alarm has been triggered since you were last there look for your missing iPhone both red lights flashing at once that means the alarm was triggered less than five minutes ago look out for the boogeyman in the back seat now our car is a t5 that means it has five cylinders another oddball trait of this Volvo compared to its competitors you can get a t6 version of an s60 that has six cylinders and the T tells you both are turbocharged now on the t5 the smaller engine model you can option all-wheel drive if you get the big engine the t6 you're going to have all-wheel drive whether you like it or not this particular one is going to give you 250 horse and 266 foot-pounds of torque good numbers to move a thirty five hundred and fifty pound car to 60 in about six point six again good numbers mpg again good numbers 2029 there's nothing remarkable under this hood so when we drive it it's gonna be interesting to see if it turns out to be more than the numbers tell us now on the road is where the s60 kind of falls down for me nice car to ride in Nice compliant ride as I mentioned really comfortable seat but the power comes on kind of Sergi from the turbo it's kind of old school that way and I didn't like any of the transmission modes Drive is always into taller here sports too twitchy always banging your head back and forth with every throttle input and manual mode well forgive that I bought a car with an automatic I don't want to shift it all the time just to get responsive driving so I didn't enjoy driving this car as much as riding okay let's price on this s60 a t5 the smaller engine car is about thirty to eight delivered at two thousand four all-wheel drive there are several packages that roll in more tech the one you want to go to and not screw around is gonna be the Platinum package that's going to get you keyless the glass moonroof park sensors navigation voice command you're also going to get a rear camera that's pretty much all in there the other major package to consider on top of that is the technology package that rolls in all the nanny technologies adaptive cruise control lane departure warning forward collision alert with full braking road sign recognition and those active high beam headlights the goofy options to skip will be 795 for a portable nav system you can do that on your own for about a fifth that much and $1,800 for the rear seat entertainment only if you're in love with DVDs ten things that are retro