Volvo V40 Cross Country Road clearance. Volvo V40 Cross Country: Dear, Dynamic, Compact. Price and configuration

Price: from 1 684,000 rubles.

Volvo cars are always excellent specifications and high reliability. The Swedish auto-giant continues to update its model range, and then came the turn v40. For the first time, the model was presented at an international auto stitch in Paris. And now, after a few years in Geneva, an updated version of Volvo V40 Cross Country 2017-2018, which we will look at in detail and will be presented.

Updated appearance

It is already seen from the name that it is also not a crossover, but not just the urban hatchback. In the guise of Volvo cars there is always a special chic, they are always beneficial from other road users. Not exception has become the restyled version of Volvo B40. From the usual version of Cross Country primarily differs by a 12 mm road lumen.

As a result of restyling, the car received a more aggressive appearance, especially it had to taste a newer audience. The sloping hood smoothly goes into a radiator grille, there appeared massive embossed lines. The trapezoid radiator grille has chrome edging, as well as a chrome nameplate with wide compared to the rest of the strip models. Headlight headlamps are made in the form of petals, they received a LED stuffing.

On the side of attention attract 16-inch wheels with a very stylish and interesting design, as well as a fairly high glass of glazing. Rearly massive optics with LED stuffing. Plastic inserts are installed on the rear bumper. Although the lid of the luggage compartment has small sizes, it still looks attractive thanks to glossy inserts and a large glazing area.

Smooth hood, attached to the roof provide excellent aerodynamic indicators.

Body sizes:

• length - 4370 mm;
• width - 1783 mm;
• height - 1458 mm;
• wheel base - 2646 mm;
• clearance - 144 mm.

Interior decoration

In the cabin, much resembles the standard Volvo V40 model, noble materials are used, work quality as usual at height. The design is quite modern, indicates a premium level. Only expensive finishing materials are used - genuine leather, aluminum inserts, wood. In front of the engineers there was a challenge to maximize the comfort of the driver and his passengers while driving, and they could have coped with it. The front-row chairs have good side support, the back profile is very successful, even when driving for long distances, the driver does not get tired.

The front row of the seats has the authoring, also heated all seats. Some complaints can cause a rear row of seats. The places for the feet of the tall passengers will be clearly not enough, but to use the car as a family, when children will sit behind the back - an excellent solution.

At the top of the Central Console Country Cross 2017-2018 is the display of the navigation and multimedia system. A little lower air deflectors, even lower - the climate control system. Everything is made stylish, beautiful and elegant.

Between the front row seats there is a large gearbox selector, next to it - a handbone lever. Also there are two cup holders and a completely comfortable armrest.

The three-spoke steering wheel is convenient, it has a leather finish and even small recesses for large fingers. There are also a multimedia control buttons. Steering adjustment is carried out both in height and by departure (such an opportunity is not all models Volvo).

There is a LED backlight in the cabin, it is possible to choose one of the seven shades and several glow options, thus individualize your car. For the dashboard and keys there are three indication options.

The standard volume of the luggage compartment Volvo V40 Cross Country is 335 liters. When this is not enough, it will increase to 1032 liters if you fold the backs of the rear row.

Car passengers celebrate excellent noise insulation inside the car while driving.

Engine and gearbox

Buyers to choose from 1,5-liter gasoline engine power in 152 hp And two two-liter power in 190 and 245 hp, as well as a diesel 2-liter 120-strong engine. Transmission is a 6-speed or 8-step automaton depending on the motor used.

By default, the drive on the front wheels, a four-wheel drive is available for top versions.

In front of the standard independent suspension of MacPherson, rear - multi-dimensional. Driving a Volvo V40 Cross Country car is a pleasure, especially thanks to the electric power steering. All brakes disc, they are ventilated in front.

Volvo on Call

Be sure to mention the new VOLVO ON CALL function. This is a completely new service that provides the driver to the maximum level of comfort and service. To do this, you must first issue a special subscription, download the application on your smartphone. With this program, the car owner can control it with many features through the phone. For example, before sit in the car, you can start the engine, warm the cabin to the temperature you need, download a remotely card into the navigation system or send a new collection of music to the multimedia system. Also at any time can be contacted technical or emergency services. Many buyers of this model have already managed to highly appreciate such a function.

Another very convenient and interesting feature is Cleanzone, so you can specify all the requirements for clearing the air from the outside of the air into the salon. In fact, this means that the air will be completely cleaned of harmful particles, such as exhaust gases of other cars when in traffic jam.

Price and configuration

For Russian buyers, three versions of Volvo B40 Cross Country are offered, each of which practically does not have differences inside the cabin. The cost of the basic version of Kinetic is 1.684 million rubles. For this price, the buyer will receive a vehicle with:

• fabric lining salon;
• climate control;
• heated the front row of seats;
• full electric car;
• cooled cup holders on the front row of the seats;
• cruise control.

Also provided seven airbags and regular radio tape recorders.

We can safely say that even this is quite good equipment, however, it can be supplemented with the following options:

• heated seats rear row;
• monitoring blind zones;
• incinual access to the salon;
• a roof with a panoramic view;
• high quality rear view camera;
• adaptive cruise control;
• auto parking system;
• multimedia system with navigation.

More expensive top versions are a bit externally different from the base.

In the standard Equipment of the new Volvo V40 Cross Country, there are numerous security systems, they include a number of functions that will reduce the negative consequences of an accident, prevent collisions. There is a system of recognition of cyclists and pedestrians that are located in the blind zone. Another system will notice all road signs and will warn you about them.

Output

For our country, the car in all indicators can be said excellent. It is comfortable and convenient to ride long distances, he perfectly showed himself during a city ride, and even on it, thanks to the increased road clearance, you can not be afraid to go for the city. The only minuses are little space on the second row of seats, three adult passengers there simply do not fit.

It can also be said that Volvo B40 Cross Country 2017-2018 is an elegant, convenient, powerful, passable and well-managed car for a sufficiently wealthy urban resident.

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Speaking objectively, Hatchback Volvo V40, who received the promising CROSS COUNTRY console in the title, is not a premiere model. After all, even in the Paris Automobile Forum, held in the fall of 2012, the Swedish brand introduced in a similar format for the execution of the body and with the same name.

A small crossover V40 Cross Country 2016-2017 model year received an updated exterior design, an enlarged list of equipment and some changes in the design of the interior decoration.

It is worth noting that the appearance of the CROS COUNTRY five-door hatchback almost completely repeats the V40 in the "standard" execution. Only the hotel strokes designers individualized the appearance of the novelties, slightly raising the car over the road and decorate the body of plastic body kit. Another distinctive feature of the crossover will be its wheels with a size of 17 inches.

Design

The expressive design of the car indicates a completely specific audience, which the model is intended primarily. We are talking about young motorists leading an active lifestyle.

The sloping hood with a pair of dual ribs of rigidity as if flowing into a bulk radiator grille. Flafones head headlamps have a smooth shape and stylish LED horizontal strips separating the headlights in half. The arcuate line of the roof and the rear lights in the form of boomerangs give the appearance of the sportiness and speakers. Organically complements the picture and the overestimated line of the side glazing body.

The length of the crossover was 4,370 mm, its width is 1 783 mm, the height of V40 Cross Country does not exceed 1 458 mm. The distance between the front and rear axles of the Wheels of the new Volvo was 2,646 mm. The road clearance of the novelty although declared as "off-road" in practice amounted to only 144 mm. Obviously, it's not worth going with asphalt roads with such clearance.

What in the cabin?

According to its internal design, Volvo V40 Cross Country is exactly repeated by the "ordinary" model V40. Modern design, noble finishing materials and immaculate quality of the salon assembly indicate a premium level of the car.

In addition to stylish design, the interior distinguishes the verified ergonomics and the high level of comfort, which are provided to the driver and passengers. Cozy front armchairs have developed lateral support, the optimal profile of the backs and the successful pillow. Front panel design is typical for cars of the Swedish brand. Genuine leather, polished aluminum and even natural wood are used as finishing materials.

But with the presence of free space on the second row of seats there are questions. Despite the successful and convenient molding of the sofa, calculated on two passengers, people above the average growth here will not be too cozy.

Not the strongest place for the presented model is its luggage compartment. The cargo capacity of the car is 335 liters, which can be increased to 1,032 liters, folding the backs of the rear seats. Under the dual surface of the floor of the trunk there was a place "Dapps" and a set of tools.

Having traveled to the new crossover from Volvo, pay attention to the almost perfect noise insulation of the cabin - at high speeds in the cabin you can talk, without increasing the voice, and it will understand that the car runs at idle, will be able to look at the tachometer.

Specifications

For Russian dealers, the VOLVO V40 Cross Country versions are designed, equipped with four engines. By default, the car is equipped with a drive on the front axle, a full drive system is available for top modifications, which is based on the Haldex fifth generation coupling. In this case, when the front wheels occurs, the system will automatically connect the rear axle.

Volvo V40 crossover gasoline engines include T3, T4 turbine units, and T5. The base option has a 1.5 liter volume and issues 152 hp. maximum power. The average version is a 2.0-liter engine capacity of 190 hp, the top gasoline motor has the same volume in 2.0 liters and thanks to the double turbocharger it is capable of developing up to 245 hp. Power.

Even the initial gasoline engine gives a car excellent "pickup" and tangible pickup after catching the gas pedal when driving on medium turnover.

The least powerful engine is a diesel installation, which is equipped with V40 Cross Country D2 modifications. This four-cylinder motor develops no more than 120 hp. and does not differ inordinated dynamics. But the diesel version of Volvo will delight with its economy. The claimed flow D2 per 100 km of mixed run is only 3.9 liters.

Depending on the selected motor, a 6- or 8-band automatic transmission is offered to it.

From other technical features of the crossover, it is possible to note the electrical steering amplifier, ventilated disc brakes of the front axle, as well as a completely independent suspension.

Outcome

With numerous advantages of the model as controversial moments, critics are called inschestucting for crossover clearance, too compact trunk and inconvenience of the planting and landing process for the seventure of the second row.

Judging by the price of a compact crossover, its potential buyers should be far from poor people, because 1,399,000 rubles for front-wheel drive V40 CC is the price of much more practical Mazda CX-5 also on the front drive. However, Volvo is already a premium product, and on the background of 2 million for the starting Mercedes Gla, the price of the V40 is quite modest, so you can safely burn the plus at the expense of this model.

As always, journalists offer cars in rich equipment. Black Volvo V40 Cross Country with expressive aluminum overlays on the thresholds and swells in front and from behind did not exception. True, before the top version with a 249-strong engine I got a two-liter unit 213 hp a little displeased. But the rest did not disappoint. In something, this is the better - not so voracious, taxes are smaller, and power, and even in conditions of mostly urban ride, for the eyes there is enough. After all, no matter how cool, the machine is not the biggest, the same Ford Focus.

I note that the comparison with the "focus" is quite appropriate, because the model was developed even at a time when Volvo was part of a friendly family of Detroit auto giant, and therefore, along with the impeccable Scandinavian design in Volvo V40 Cross Country, there is no no yes and fire a healthy American high-tech pragmatism . However, the company of Gothenburg has always been correct to themselves, so it is in the desire to make a car as safe as possible. It is not surprising that Volvo V40, who debuted last year in Geneva, even without a la sout -out way, and without Cross Country in the title became the world's first car with a pedestrian airbag. When I talked with Stefan Inerfeld, the head of the V40 project, I was very upset about the news that such a humane car would not be sold from us.

As I was explained in the company, V40 to Russia did not get due to the expected low demand for compact universals, but the more brutal version, with high ground clearance and full drive, finally complained. And I am very pleased that the airbag for a pedestrian was not thrown out from the package of options. It is available in Russia and cost 39 thousand rubles. As far as humiliation is still not going out in us, sales statistics will show, which are just beginning.

That's what the car is from Scandinavia! Heating issues are given increased attention. In the car there is both the preheating, the invisible thread of the electrical heating tightened all the windshield, the side mirrors and the glass of the rear door were left without attention. You can start the heating of the motor and the salon remotely from the iPhone, the corresponding free program in the App applications is available, it is only necessary to dial the word Volvo. Through a smartphone, you can also control the location of the car, the state of a number of its parameters. But fully fashionable gadgets "smart" car did not submit, for example, with an insufficient level of gasoline in the V40 Cross Country tank, it will not give it to all squeezing only for the sake of heat.

In a warm car, you can and even need to ride without outerwear. Coat or jacket limit the driver's mobility, but also increase the risk of injuries at the accident at speed. Walking for the safety of the car Swedes proved. It turns out that there are several centimeters that separate the body from the seat belt, sufficiently in a collision to get serious injuries. I remembered this when I saw a speedometer arrow over the "honey". I confess, I did not expect from the Volvo V40 Cross Country of such a fast, in one breath of overclocking, taking into account the slush and snow under the wheels. That's when you need a four-wheel drive!

As I said, not everyone supplied to Russia Volvo V40 Cross Country is equipped with them. Cars with four-cylinder motors 180 hp Do not have it. But five-cylinder aggregates 213 and 249 forces - please. The drive is permanent and untouched. To make only one axis make it possible. There are no lower gears and rattles. Before "hundreds", my "Black Arrow" shot in 7.2 seconds, losing the eldest "sister" of some 0.5 s. "Hundred" conquers a 180-strong version at 8.7 s, which is also impressive. And there are no conversations about VOLVO cars and their drivers!

The Volvo V40 hatchback in Russia is sold only in the "off-road" modification of Cross Country - with an increased by 12 mm road lumen, larger wheels, other bumpers and roofing testers. Prices begin with 1 million 189 thousand rubles for the front-wheel drive version T4 by a SDvumlitron turbo engine (180 hp), a six-speed "automatic", family airbags, climate control, CD-receiver and City Safety. Adlya "fittings" We took the hatchback in the T5 modification with forced to 213 hp Engine and full drive. Vbzaya configuration Such a five-year costs 1 million 279 thousand rubles, but we have a complete set of options: leather interior, electric drive front seats, glass roof, navigator, rear-view camera, bi-xenon headlamps are different, which is more expensive than almost twice - 2 million 219 thousand rubles.

Igor Zaitsev

Designer
Height 170 cm
Driversky0 experience 54 years
Rent on Renault car

Volvo V40 is the most stylish among all models of Volvo. Introducing something among the universal and hatchback, it is distinguished by a dynamic silhouette that is not characteristic of the Swedish brand. Complex, but the harmonious plastic of the body gives a car sportiness and light aggression. Especially the V40 is good from behind - elegantly curved rear lights with LEDs and a large spoiler over the rear door endow it with a special charm, and the black insert under the rear glass continues the tradition of the outrageous C30. From eternal family values \u200b\u200b- forward to youth dynamism! And the speakers do not occupy this hatchback. Overclocking is powerful and smooth, with diesel drive, the steering wheel "short" and accurate, and all other mechanisms in this car work perfectly. Is that the suspension is harsh, and low-profile tires are poorly tolerated pit and cracks of our roads.

The interior is the kingdom of Scandinavian design. Simplicity of forms and reverent attitude to the material are brought to perfection. The traditional "steaming" console of the instrument panel with four "twist" and the "man" of the climate installation is covered with a whole keyboard of the buttons. On the go to play on this "piano" not only uncomfortable, but also dangerous. The abundance of various settings and multistageness of the actions necessary for this, in my opinion, are in contradiction with a complication of VOLVO security cars. Of course, a pillow for a pedestrian and automatic braking, preventing the hit, is great, but at the same time wide front and rear racks significantly limit the overview, the camcorder is quickly covered with mud, and the markup tracking system loses its meaning along with its disappearance. Of all the devices, the most useful in Russian conditions would be, perhaps, the BLIS SIS-topic and a pedestrian recognition in the dark.

Progress Do not stop, and Volvo V40 is on its top. It remains to regret that our country is still at the foot.

Leonid Glaovanov

Volvo. I rush. Not a sausage in a small Spasskaya, but a man. Which sounds proudly. Especially - in such a silence, which is violated only by a quiet "odd" five-cylinder rug of the Volvov Turbomotor.

It would seem that the "hatch" of the golf class on the basis of the previous focus for two more than a million rubles - Brad of Crazy, Alice in Wonderland, robbery in broad North Day. But I'm not offended. Moreover, I am pleased. Behind the wheel of the Volvo V40 XC (you already allow and here to cut the company Cross Country) Feel - this is premium. And finally, the case is not at all in numerous seifsty systems: you remove all these radars and cameras, "Society" Volvo will remain more than worthy of a rival car "Big German Troika". After all, the "unit" of BMW is much easier, in Audi A3 there is too much game in Golf, in the Mercedes A-class it is even more. And here ... Focus? What are you - this is a slightly trimmed Volvo S60. Taste. Dignity. Tightly covered with skin steering wheel is light, but informative: in moderation - feelings of the road, moderately isolation from the outside world. In a straight line, the car goes like herself, in the devices - complete submission to the driver and even honed nest. Powerful acceleration - with delay, but Gentlemansky. "Automatic" planve, suspension is fit and energy-intensive. Normal clearance. Four-wheel drive. And the radar cruise control, which can lead you even in the city.

And I do not understand what was fired by Steve Mattina. Now he is in Lada, but V40 is his last brainchild at the VOLVO chief designer, and I remember with what excitement he came to the booth of his former employers at the Paris Motor Show, where for the first time demonstrated a new "Socipte". I have nothing to be ashamed - Well Done, Steve.

And I, perhaps, would go on such a car, whether it is a little more advantageous. And cheaper.

Ilya Hlebushkin

I do not understand why this volvo suddenly became Cross Country? Neither for country, nor all the more for the cross, he is not a google. And let the giant wheels and unscreased overlays on the thresholds and bumpers try to give it for the crossover, but the frequently passenger traffic clearance will not be misleading.

Pain his gran turismo? Again, by: long-range travel trunk is fragrant, and under a hefonic underground is only a routine-crutch.

Maybe Family-Room? The setting inside is cozy, albeit in the spirit of Scandinavian technomalism, materials on the envy of many, and the underlined security worship - about the same. It remains to "fit" on the "steaming" console - to decompose on the places the branded sticking of the blind keyboard and replace a similar on a cheap craft from the store of Chinese baubles lever gearbox with a luminous selector scheme.

No, Family-Room is also not suitable. In the back row, closely, the roof presses the roof, the feet are stuck in the cabin under the front seats - and even my fourteen-year-old son was attached about the low doorway.

That seems to be released: Town Streets! Feeling yourself with the fastest fish in a dense urban jamb. Only an unimportant review back and frightening red flashes and a siren system warning system. Although it can be either disabled, or configured to less panic pads.

Under the wheels - snow porridge, but on dense and plump, like BMW, steering wheel - the transparency of the summer sky. Heavy, like a frame SUV, a guide to the flying gait, turns into a flying gait, the gearbox does not harm, and a five-cylinder turbo engine on a golf-class hatch-bey is simply obliged to be a provocateur.

With such talents, it does not even scare the price tight over a million. But I would still change my name to everything was honest.

Konstantin Sorokin

No this is cross and not country! And in general, from which side I looked at the new Volvo V40 in a pseudo-road crude, a solid image did not see. Design, sorry, too. Here the Volvo C30 has it. The XC family also closes individuality. And here is a faceless collective image on the theme of the current Hatchbacks of the golf class.

Well, at least that from the inside the car is perceived as an ethnic "scandinav": aesthetically licked, affecting flawless materials and fars with electronic assistants of the last generation. Instead of cameras behind the situation in the dead zones, microwave sensors are followed - this is also a technical indicator. But why do I sit so low? Why, driving to parking, scraper on ice plastic body kit? Yes, because from the real Cross Sountry there is no trace there. So enjoy the dynamic "shootings" of a 250-strong turbomotor, rejoice at the highway controllability and in no case come from the asphalt.

Sergey Zamensky

Iron Mark, Iron Symbol, Mars Sign, Cumbage Order ... Does he still be-ten on the Volvo nose? Did you have time to change it to stylized Venereino the mirror? Who is in the light of all Mile, premail and more fashionable? Of course, V40 Cross Country!

The crossover is not the floor and not calling, it is a trend, styl. This is a look. Large shoes on high soles to sustain in tightness, advanced device devices, fucencing of the illuminated transmission selector - here is the hero of our time. More precisely, the heroine.

Step into the street. And there...

Oh, God, I am threatened with danger in the blind zone! Distance is reduced! Speed \u200b\u200bis exceeded! We lose our lane ... how to live scary!

Come on the number of panic attacks of on-board electronics, by zeal, with which the car blows, defending "from the fool", and in importance that the Swedes give the promotion of such systems, the drivers of the most entry level of training driving are not simply not excluded, but And especially welcome. Here it is, the new breed of Volvo Driver: if even the cook is able to manage the state, then who will not cope with the little Volvo then?

If you are just such a "desperate housewife", hung on a cautious little crossover V40 Cross Country in version T5, I hurry to delight you - you have a chance in court, otherwise to return each of the spent 2 million 219 thousand rubles each of it spent on it. Because you were deliberately misled: to promote V40 in Russia as a parkettail much more promising than as a "hot hat" he is by birth.

If you turn off all electronic substraters and find a pen, from which it has not yet had time to retreat winter ... What, to hell, the mirror! Flame motor, light-legged "Avtomat", Muscular chassis and filigree handling - here he is, Male Volvo-Drive!

It's great that the Swedes finally managed to poison with BMW and Audi on the riding temperament, which was outlined a refusal of excessive glamorousness in the appearance that the new chief interior service was invited from Bentley, who will probably bring order in the Swedish family of pens and buttons before the driver. Maybe then marketers will find the courage to spit and declare that Volvo is still a brand of male genus. Or not? We have already learned this on the emblem.

Igor Vladimirsky

Here you, buyers, wagon. Large, with a roomy interior, a powerful engine - and even with a complete drive. Take?

Never-e-e, we do not need a barn!

And if we are a little "lifthem", put in black plastic and let's call an SUV?

Here you have a dialogue explaining why the "ordinary" Universals of Subaru Legacy and Volvo V70 have already left from the Russian market, leaving Outback and XC70 instead of themselves. Audi A6 Avant is still holding down, but last year such universal sold about thirty pieces - Allroad more popular ten times! Is it anyone to be surprised that Volvo decided not to bring the "regular" hatchback V40 to our market by betting on his "cross-board" version?

But one thing is a big wagon-grafted off-road (he is at least a unpacked plastic body kit), but a golf class hatchback with disguised under the case-protected inserts will give way to absurdity, except the oxyment of the "kenguryatnik". And it's a shame, because by itself Volvo V40 I liked it.

Did the love of Russians for the ostentatious "SUV" are so great that you can sacrifice beauty? In my opinion, "simply" Volvo V40 is one of the most beautiful cars of our days. But the true purity of his lines to us, alas, not to see.

Daria Lavrov

Producer
Height of 169 cm
Driving experience 13 years
Rides by car BMW 325i xDrive

Surprisingly interesting salon! And before the driver - the real control panel! Sit down - and for some time you forget about everything in the world. In the middle - the panel with a wonderful graphic, a huge transparent hatch in the roof, an unusual glowing handle on the gear lever ... But when it becomes necessary to use all this beauty, you get freeze again, but already from confusion. Small buttons are scattered through the center console, and they will not use them on the go without skidding. To simply turn on the sound of the audio system, you must not press the wheel, but only on one part it is. I used to when you click on the seat heating button, the display appears on the button itself. And here sting-sting, but nothing lights up. I thought that it was not working. Later I understood that you need to look at the display. It was noted the almost complete absence of a review of the back - and remembered that with a similar problem, it was also faced with a wheel of an equally spectacular C30, which, by the way, has a lot of common features with V40: from the interior design to a stunningly beautiful back of the body.

The car rides very well. Reception-tai, reliable, intelligible. This car is like a cozy blanket on wheels, in which every time it is pleasant to poop. And yet I miss the sparks, a light, a small decent, who should live in my car. Does not start.

Vladimir Melnikov

In the Russian representative office, Volvo, in contrast, let's say, from the author, the question of the premium status of the brand has been resolved for a long time - and, of course, positively. Therefore, the advertising slogan for the hatchback V40 Cross Country on the mercability of the creative can only compete with the "delights" from BMW - "Innova"! And the union of two stickers on the doors parked near my home hatchback gave birth to another more strange combination - "Innoye Obukhov".

Stop, but it's right! Fifteen years ago, the company Obukhov, at that time, the ordinary service for the repair of the Swedish car, offered "tuning on the contrary" - an increase in the road lumen on passenger models, the installation of the bottom protection of the bottom ... Then the Swedes treated these experiments skeptical, although Obukhovtsy actually anticipated the appearance Cars with CROSS, Scout and Alltrack consoles! Now the road is much better than then, but, like you, the demand for raised versions is only grows.

If you are also needed such for everyday war with borders, then V40 Cross Country is a very good option. Of course, provided that these fights you will lead alone or maximum together. Because the trunk is no modest here, but the rear places ... what rear places?

But in front of something cool: excellent finish, beautiful, multiple dashboard. And the V40 is traveling as it did not dream of any of the cars modified in Obukhov. Really advertising slogans really have such power? His chassions V40 Cross Country really reminds me of BMW! Dense suspension, informative steering wheel, fast and accurate reactions. I have never been driving Volvo so good.

"Innoye" gives rise to delight! I got it ...

Ivan Shadrichev

Volvo happens and painful, but in general this style is more like pleasure. The car is plump, and the hood would be used for greater in size; However, for the rear passengers, it is close, both in the knees and feets, and in height - I am not a god of the news of what a giant, however, how "for myself" fit barely.

That's the wheel of it good. Perhaps, for one thing: a tachometer on a fashionable "virtual" shield came out for me, and the meaning of the testimony is symmetrically located on the other side of the speedometer, I could not understand on the move. I suspect that she tells about saving fuel, and if so, then I do not regret at all that I had forced to ignore her movements. For I hung up the right pedal from the soul - and, I must confess, delivered himself pleasure. Very nice, especially when the zone allowing for overtaking is just two hundred meters, and you easily fit into this framework. And the uncombly rocus of the motor's sweat is pleasant. However, I will not call a completely comfortable ride: if the machines are smoothed on a good move, it is necessary to temper the pressure - and the suspension will begin to allow both the digging, and the detailed repetition of the holes and the protrusions. Yes, and she is talking on Colds.

That's what I liked unconditionally, this is the behavior in turns. The stabilization system in the control process is not interferes at all, allowing you to slide in small angles. She wakes up exactly when I myself am also going to adjust demolitions and drifts.

Other electronic assistants are upset by the same part. Take, for example, reading road signs. With regard to the homeland of our - catching trick. Here I props a lying policeman, in front of which sign with a number of 20, and there is no cancellation sign! And here I'm going with an incorrect tip, until another restriction is met.

From warnings about dangerous rapprochements in the capital, too, one fruit. These advisers work without tired, which is why they are in panic from close and inevitable crash. I want to immediately throw the car - and striving in the subway, so that no longer go to the roads.

If you will leave for ride, exactly on the car easier.

Nikita Gudkov

In the competition for the most meaningless option in the Russian market with a huge margin, the recognition system of road signs will be defeated. Although in Volvo V40, these signs are removed very convenient - in color, on the field of a liquid crystal "speedometer". A label appears on the interactive scale, and exceed the speed - and the sign will flash for a couple of seconds.

That's just in four out of five cases, the actually allowed speed was completely different! The main puncture is that the camera does not recognize the signboards of the beginning and end of the settlements, which we mainly determine the speed mode. The system and intersection will not "recognize", which most often on our rules there are no signs of speed limit signs.

In second place in the fundamentality ranking - a strip helping system. Why exactly help, not retention? Because Volvo does not infuriate, but only hints at the intersection of marking with weak steering vibration. When we traveled to the V40 Cross Country "to Peter in the detour" (AR No. 7, 2013), the vibration was almost constant - on our winter roads on the markup all the time you have to run, riding pits, ice and snow.

Active cruise control ... Well, perhaps, I will not put forward it in the third place - I will leave the "bronze" for the seven-color lighting of the cabin. And the cruise control, by the way, works here with zero speed, that is, can lead the car in traffic. Delays in acceleration and braking are, but not catastrophic. And if you do not bother you that the distance until the crawling machine is always like that that someone can get (again Russian specifics!), Then the active "cruise" will actually allow you to relax at the wheel.

Let the electronics be our future. Volvo assures that to perform an ambitious plan so that by 2020, people did not die in this brand in this brand, only by electronic means. Almost all reserves are chosen in more traditional "automotive" regions, perfection is almost achieved.

But it turns out that the car for 1,3 million rubles (in the basic configuration of the V40 Cross Country I lack only heating of the seats) is almost twice as much. Only the color of "metallic" from Volvo costs 40 thousand rubles, and "assistants" is more expensive. Well, all of them!

October 25 of this year, four weeks after the world premiere at the Paris Motor Show, as part of the opening of the fashion week in Moscow, the Russian presentation of the Volvo V40 Cross Country car took place. In the living yard, those modifications of a new model were presented (and prices for them were announced), which from February next year it will be possible to purchase in the dealership centers of Volvo Cars.

Having conceived a car of increased passability of the market segment "C", the Swedish designers did not fool their heads with complex technical solutions. Taking the Volvo V40 hatchback as a basis, the engineers simply increased its ground clearance and added the rear wheel drive using the Haldex's usual clutch. In exactly the same way, the Volvo V70 Cross Country universal was created, which appeared in 1997. Provided and simplified, i.e. Front-wheel drive, VOLVO V40 Cross Country vehicle modification.

Among other features of the V40 Cross Country It is worth noting the Hill Descent Control system that controls the speed of movement during descent, as well as the Hill Hold function, which facilitates the process of starting the mountain. The first of the mentioned technologies is offered only for the All-wheel drive version of Cross County.

The remaining differences between the car of increased passability from the usual fellow - such as lining on bumpers and body thresholds or vertically installed daytime running lights, are in my opinion more decorative than a functional character.

Some difficulties arise with the definition of the road lumen of the novelties. One of the independent sources calls a value of 173 mm. The manufacturer reports only that the clearance of the V40 Cross Country is 40 mm more than the road car. But in this case, it becomes incomprehensible how the height of these cars may differ only at 13 mm, that is, to be equal to 1458 and 1445 mm, respectively. The width and length for both models are indicated the same - 4370 and 1802 mm. However, in the factory specification there are other inaccuracies, so I recommend to be attentive.

While Volvo Cars engineers did not complicate the task of themselves, marketing experts took care not to overshadow the lives of the difficulties of choosing to Russian buyers. On our market there are only two modifications of the Volvo V40 Cross Country - front-wheel drive, with a gasoline engine T4, and a version with a full drive and a gasoline engine T5, however, in three grades - Kinetic, Momentum and Summum. What hides, behind these names, not yet clear. It is only known that the price of the front-wheel drive version begins from 1.189,000 rubles, and modifications T5 AWD - from 1.279.000 rubles.

4-cylinder gasoline engine T4 volume 1984 cc. With direct injection of fuel and turbocharging the power of 132 kW (180 hp) at 5000 rpm and 300 nm torque over a wide range - from 2700 to 5000 rpm.

The listed characteristics of the motor in combination with a 6-speed automatic gearbox gearbox allow a car with a circular weight of 1452 kg to reach a speed of 100 km / h in 8.7 seconds. The magnitude of the maximum speed company Volvo does not call in accordance with corporate rules.

Version Volvo V40 Cross Country T4 is very economical. It consumes 10 km of 10.4 liters of fuel - in the city, 5.8 liters on the highway and 7.5 liters in a mixed cycle. CO2 emissions level is 174 g / km.

But the modification of Volvo V40 Cross Country T5 AWD is much faster. Up to 100 km per hour, a car equipped with a 5-cylinder gasoline engine with a volume of 2497 cubic meters. See, with direct fuel injection and turbocharged, as well as the Geartronic automatic transmission and the drive of four wheels, time to accelerate in 6.4 seconds.

Of course, a powerful motor, a all-wheel drive transmission and an increase in 60 kg mass of the machine lead to an increased appetite. 11.6 liters (in the city), 6.4 liters (on the highway) and 8.3 liters (in a mixed cycle) are such a fuel consumption values \u200b\u200bat the T5 AWD modification.

In addition to what I said earlier, Cross Country differs from the road version of the Volvo V40 of the original cellular grid of the radiator, anodized by black frames, framing all the machines of the machine, the black housings of the outer mirrors and the roof rails. In addition, the car will be available in an embodiment with a glass panoramic roof and heated windshield.

Especially for the Volvo V40 Cross Country model Designers of the Scandinavian company developed geminus wheels (16-inch), Larenta (17-inch), Mefitis (18-inch) aluminum alloy. All of them are offered in two options in color - silver and gray. You can purchase discs in black execution as an accessory.

Offered for a car of high passability and new body colors: Raw Cooper Metallic, Biarritz Blue Metallic, Amazon Blue Metallic, Misty Blue Metallic, Nightshade Gray Metallic. And for the upholstery, you can choose one of the seven skin options, among which Volvo marketers allocate brown Espresso Brown. However, two-color interior decoration is also provided.

Inout the rest of the car of increased patency, V40 Cross Country is no different from the VOLVO V40 road version.

In V40 Cross Country, in particular, a system of dynamic stabilization and control of thrust (DSCT), which includes a number of technologies that increase both the level of traffic safety and the quality control of the car. First, with the help of an angle of the corner of the body, the trend towards the car drift system detects at the time of its first signs. Due to this, the position of the machine is adjusted with greater accuracy. Secondly, the traction control function in turning (CORNER TRACTION CONTROL) provides the Volvo V40 Cross Country rapid and confident passage of aggregates.

Of course, the Volvo V40 Cross Country car is designed in full compliance with the Intellisafe philosophy, and therefore it is staffed by the latest developments in the field of security and driver support. In the list of new technologies, you can, for example, see the airbag for protecting the drivers' knees and airbag to protect pedestrians, as well as a parking relief system plus road sign recognition features. In addition, the Volvo V40 Cross Country car is equipped with advanced pedestrian detection technology with full automatic braking function and an updated CITY SAFETY system, which is now capable of preventing collisions at speeds up to 50 km / h. Listed innovations allow us to name the Volvo V40 of the most intellectual security model in the entire history of the Swedish company.

It is impossible not to recall that the traditional instrument shield on the model Volvo V40 designers replaced with a liquid crystal display. Now the driver can choose one of the three options for displaying information in accordance with its preferences. This dashboard is also easy for the fact that only the information necessary in a particular situation is displayed on the screen. Such maximum simplicity was striving to achieve experts who developed the new Volvo Sensus information system. In the system named system, all information is displayed on the color monitor located at the top of the instrument panel. You can manage all the functions of Volvo Sensus both using the buttons located on the steering wheel and through the controls directly under the monitor. In addition, there is a remote control. A mobile application allows the driver to support contact with its car in remote access mode.

Just as in the case of the Volvo V40 road version, the V40 Cross Country designers have not forgotten about such a prose-free, but no less important task, as a convenient accommodation of cargo in the trunk. Download the most diverse swing driver V40 Cross Country help numerous hooks, a box for storing small items, an extra floor, one of two sided mesh options (soft or steel), as well as the "luggage compartment optimization system", which includes two floor slats, partition For the division of luggage and the belt for its attachment.

As you can see, the differences between the usual and all-terrain version of the Volvo V40 car are minimal. Therefore, I do not surprise the solution of Volvo Cars to supply only the V40 Cross Country model to Russia. With regard to specific road conditions, it does not make sense to offer a front-wheel drive car with limited road clearance, when there is a version with increased clearance and all-wheel drive transmission.

By and large, Volvo V40 Cross Country is not even crossovers, and the SUV is such a car, the more you won't call. So what is it? It seems to me that because of the compact size, high power of the engine and improved V40 Cross Country is well suited for year-round operation in the metropolis, taking into account regular raids beyond its limits. That's just a pity that versions with diesel engines will have to wait. However, in any case, I would call this model somewhat differently - Volvo V40 Cross City.

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