It's best to resist full-throttle excursions and ride the torque, which is generous thanks to the turbo. But at high revs the petrol engine gets annoyingly thrashy. The petrol engine has the same 320bhp as in the T6 version, and the electric motor adds its own shoulder to the wheel. Anyway, once you're running in normal hybrid mode, the switches between engine-on and engine-off and engine-on again are impressively smooth. ![]() When the petrol engine first cuts in from cold, it will sound rough by comparison, even if of course it's a lot more civilised than a diesel. It's wonderfully smooth and silent under electric power in towns. The Government has very sensibly decided that people buying luxury SUVs (or even a Porsche 918) don't need further subsidising by the rest of us taxpayers.īut I'm not exactly slagging off the Volvo, just saying its advantages are not the ones you'd expect. ![]() That's because the grant is falling to £2500 from 1 March, and available only on cars under £60k. And the BMW qualifies for the plug-in car grant whereas most versions of the Volvo don't. Also it's a lot more expensive to buy than a diesel 4WD XC90, whereas the BMW is priced comparably with the diesel AWD 2 ActiveTourer. The Volvo is so big and heavy, so it can't get as far on its electric-only mode.
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