纽约时报对S60的评价：安全、富有驾驶乐趣

纽约时报对S60的评价：安全、富有驾驶乐趣

  大意是说，在安全的舞蹈之后，VOLVO开始跳探戈了。 沃尔沃方方正正的造型设计已经完全没有了，即使现在的设计很潮流，但是全性一直没有改变，从XC60开始，设计就开始惊艳，同时安全也很出色。新的S60是一款NAUGTY的车，意思是很潮流的吧，把线条的设计运用发挥到了极致。在BMW,AUDI,CADILLIAC, BENZ之后，运动性能车里有多了一个VOLVO，尤其是T6车型的300马力，带全轮驱动。S60 T6的直接对手是335, G37,CTS, C350.， T6的加速性能得益于3.0的涡轮增压发动机，在这个级别里算是不错的。

After Its Safety Dance, Volvo Learns to Tango

VOLVO’S boxy years are long gone. But even as the company has bent its
90-degree designs into slinkier shapes, there’s something a bit square
about its safety obsession. Don’t get me wrong; everyone appreciates a safe
car. But the nurturing values that Volvo promotes in its family-first cars
— like the terrific XC60 crossover — can come off as prissy to buyers of
sporting machines. Especially if those buyers suspect that “safety” is the
car’s point, with a few sprinkles of excitement tossed on as a garnish.

Now, the company that sometimes sees drivers as Bubble Boys, in need of
protection from any suggestion of sex or pinprick of sensation, is promoting
its remade midsize sedan in national ads as the “naughty S60.”

This Swedish sedan — the first new model since Ford sold Volvo to the
Chinese automaker Geely — plays up, and plays on, the curves. And it does
so with such panache that the usual water-cooler arguments over sport sedans
— which mainly flatter BMW, Audi, Cadillac, Mercedes or Infiniti — must
now include a word for Volvo.

That’s especially true for the S60 T6 model. Its splashy first impression
is aided by a 300-horsepower, 3-liter turbocharged in-line 6 with standard
all-wheel drive.

For the T6, seat-of-pants impressions are magnified by the engine’s lusty
325 pound-feet of peak torque. That is much more than any rival, including
the BMW 335i, Audi A4 2.0T, Cadillac CTS, Infiniti G37 or Mercedes C350, and
it matches the rating for the big 4.4-liter V-8 in the Volvo XC90 crossover.
The result is a cool, quenching rush of turbo power, and a car that can
storm from a standstill to 60 m.p.h. in 5.6 seconds, barely behind the BMW
and Infiniti but still provocatively quick in this class.