Volvo C30. The car with pleasant shortcomings

This spring, a good half of motorists just asked about their feelings about the Swedish novelty, and all thanks to a powerful advertising campaign of Volvo C30. It should be noted that a number of undoubted advantages of this car really makes you think about the rosy prospects for new items to Britain’s market, because it is able not only to please lovers of brands, but also to bring new clients. But in any case, it is still too early to talk about a place under the sun for a new Volvo. But we can already point out to the fact that the chances of a successful result of this competition for Swedish novelty are more than enough.

The main trump card in the design of the new coupe from Volvo - shocking. Moreover, the main burden falls on the design of the rear of the car, because the frontal face of C30 turned too traditional, especially when it comes to tandem grille and headlight head light. But from other angles small Volvo looks really intriguing. Somehow this car managed to combine a kind of solidity and lightness. Side conjure a picture, but is slightly change the angle of view - and before you have a completely different car, and yet if a little work around ... In general, for each find your own favorite view.

Undoubtedly, the strongest impression when meeting with the C30 is born in the first minutes of singles - first its appearance creates a positive attitude, and then comes the turn reinforce these feelings by using a more empirical things - the comfort of the passenger compartment and / or technical stuffing. As soon as you sit down in a chair, be it driver or passenger, you feel in your place - to sit comfortably, and all at hand, but it is really a pleasant feeling. Landing in the car is generally no problem, and both rear seats, too, and wear seat-belts - a pleasure, because they are not only easily removed, but with lightning speed and cleaned, which helps a lot, if you need to quickly enter and organize the landing on the rear seat.

The main part of such a design, even cars - the engine. Of course, not everyone will be able to buy a car with a capacity of 220 hp T5 under the hood, but I must say that the 2.4 liters and 170 hp at 6000 rpm is also quite consistent with the spirit of sport. This engine compartment is easy to leave the 9 seconds during acceleration to 100 km / h, as well as superb in the stream, only the volume of the fuel tank to 62 liters may be not enough, because the passport charge of 9.4 liters is proving to be much more high. You can, of course, cancel the testimony of 13 liters per test run of a new car, but in any case such a difference in the values still too large.

To be honest, even these indicators are not likely to make trouble, in fact, at a cost most importantly, to return managed to get something special, and with that in C30 there are no problems. Coupe is really going, and its maximum speed was 215 km / h, and helps him in this very successful suspension, which in tandem with 17-inch wheel disks allows not only easy to drive, but fanatically clinging to the specified path to the last. Small obstacles like potholes and speed bumps, of course, speak unpleasant vibrations in the cabin, but it is inevitable cost of comfort at a higher speed and decent handling.

Sitting comfortably in an armchair, but a tall man will always try to delete the rest a little lower. And immediately after this notice that the steering wheel for such a small car is too big. It feels really badly when you try to get behind the wheel correctly, moving a chair and almost vertically raised back. By the way, even the sports steering wheel from Volvo does not save you from these problems, as well as its dimensions do not differ from conventional options and features is the availability of suitable twists and multifunctionality. In general, exchange it for a more compact model would agree to three out of four, but he looks because of security requirements, and for Volvo is sacred. Moreover, the majority of buyers of this innovation is unlikely to be of high growth.

Separately, we note that for the family car's still not too fitted, although four of them to stay in it can be very bad. Mainly it is about a small child, whose place in the back seat would be problematic, since this requires much more space than is available pushed forward seats. And can we say about the stroller in the trunk and not serious, although with a hockey bag shape climbs through a narrow doorway without any problems. With regard to the number of traditional products from the hypermarket on the weekends, you have to go after them together, folding rear seats. So the car absolutely City, and its minor drawbacks - it only costs roles.

As pleasant design decisions inside, and then once again want to note the floating center console, which has been said a lot of words. This combination of functionality and design, perhaps, be called one of the most successful in the market. In addition, a car equipped with the new system of BLIS, which warns the driver of the presence of a car in the dead zone with the lights built into the side bar. In addition, the owner will be able to boast a built-in phone receiver with SIM-card in the glove compartment and an excellent stereo system from DYNAUDIO, that's just all this splendor substantially affect the price of the car, but think about it, not all buyers. For those who are not willing to pay 38 400 dollars for a Volvo C30 T5 in a really destructive configuration, there is always the opportunity to purchase a car with a 2.4 liter engine in the machine, which will cost 29 900 dollars, which looks more than a realistic option. But for a female audience and this Volume is still not in place, so you can throw off the price tag of 2 thousand dollars, if it is 2-liter version, and the entire 7 thousand, if it is already about 1.6. But all these machines will incorporate a design, which made the car unique and absolutely different from other road users, and yet it is often prized in today's cars above all else.