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We are toying with the idea of adding a more practical car to the household than my OH vw beetle and so I can stop putting so many miles on my S60R. I’ve had four Volvo’s before and always been very happy driving them and the seats suit my lower back issues!
Have been looking a 2017/18 Volvo T4 manual RDesign at present. We don’t need a cavernous estate as we have a T5 Transporter for camping / throwing the bikes in most of the time and serious removals etc. But a decent sized practical car would be useful. Doesn’t need to be super quick as I have the S60R for that but I don’t want to be pushing it up hills...
Currently looking at petrol (my preference is manual and RDesign). Just wondering what people’s real world experiences are of them are? I.e mpg, servicing costs, known faults etc.
Cheers.
I've a 2018 v90 T4 rdesign. So same engine although slightly heavier I'm guessing. I'm leasing and went with petrol to save the baby robins. Currently averaging 13mpg in town and 26mpg!! overall after 2500 miles, it also has a small petrol tank, so make friends with the petrol station.
The rest of the car is really nice, only thing that is an option on the v60 that is on the v90 as standard is the pilot assist. Which is really useful on the motorway.
26mpg....
Currently averaging 13mpg in town and 26mpg!! overall
Thanks for validating my choice of the D4 for my 2019 V60 😁
Those mpg figures look awfully low! 😲 The Honest John real mpg reckons 38.1 average.
I wonder if there is that much difference between the T4’s. The V90 has the B4204T44 engine with 10.8:1 compression ratio where as the 16-18 V60 T4 has the B4204T19 with 11.3:1 compression ratio. The CO2 is also 156g/km vs 138g/km which suggests the V90 is burning fuel at a faster rate.
Sorry mine is actually a 2019 midweek year, so not sure if that makes any difference. Yep it is certainly burning fuel. I watch top gear and they are driving some 4l V8 or some super car and it's doing 25mgh and think what is my car actually doing! Currently got an almost full tank (14 gallons) and the predicted range is 238 miles!
I had the diesel R-Design so can't comment on the engine but it's a nice car. They should be very cheap if they don't have the Driver Assistance Pack, without which it's just a more comfortable Mondeomobile.
The turning circle on the R-Design is absolutely atrocious. Ocean-liner bad. You can't drive forwards into a parking space, and a U-turn on a mini-roundabout morphs into a three point turn. As it can take 21 inch wheels the steering lock is artificially limited, but a garage might be able to adjust this.
I liked it enough to have a 2019 version when the lease was up. Still a D4, but with Adblue. 62 mpg average at 70-ish on winter tyres.
I've had a 2018 V60 T4 R-Design Nav since October last year. Absolutely love it! MPG isn't brilliant (I get about 30 average and I have a heavy right foot. Have had 35ish on longer Mway trips) but if I was bothered about such things I'd have bought a Diesel. Haven't had a service on it yet... and nothing gone wrong yet so cant tell you bout costs etc. Havent noticed the poor turning circle as mentioned above (maybe all my previous cars have been similar!).
Boot is a great size and with seats down it can get a good amount of crap down to the tip.
Edit: Headlight washers are ridiculous! my seem to chuck out half a litre all over the bonnet every time they come on