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Volvo V70 review covering 2000 - 2007
Wednesday 26 July 2006
Like many relics of the 1980s, the Dudley Moore film ‘Crazy People’ now appears horribly dated. After all, who could mention an advertising strapline like ‘Volvo, boxy but good’ nowadays? Yes, they’re still good, but as Design Director Peter Horbury likes to joke, Volvo have now thrown away the boxes and kept the toys. No car epitomises this philosophy better than the Volvo V70 estate. Its predecessors were so ugly and dull to drive that they were nicknamed Swedish penalty boxes, whereas the V70 is all swoops, curves and studied elegance. Buying a used example means buying into the legendary reliability without sacrificing style or driver appeal. The best of all worlds? Volvo owners would have you believe so.
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Volvo V70 Cross Country review covering 2000 - 2003Tuesday 15 November 2005
With its savvy lifestyle marketing, bodywork composed of swoops, curves and arcing hiplines and aggressive jacked-up stance, who’d have thought the V70 Cross Country could have come from those staid S
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Volvo S70 / V70 review covering 1996 - 2000Tuesday 15 November 2005
It says much for Volvo’s marketing skills that for most customers, the S70 saloon and V70 estate range tends to be thought about as being a newish product. In fact of course, it’s a revamp of the much
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