Volvo XC60 T8 AWD in the How To Cars endurance test

Hello, AUTO BILD, why do you actually disassemble your endurance test car at the end? That hurts your soul, you could just keep driving the cars… Hello, readers, if we didn’t disassemble our endurance testers, we wouldn’t be able to spot all the quirks! Which brings us to the middle of the workshop.

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Volvo XC60 T8 in the endurance test: a lot of money for the middle class

From Hamburg to Italy, the XC60 drives comfortably – but also with Super 95 and double-digit consumption.

We at AUTO BILD find that other manufacturers can still learn something, in terms of material appearance Volvo sets the bar very high. Unfortunately not in other areas, keyword multimedia. We can bend the voice control right away, too cumbersome. All-wheel drive expert Rolf Klein recognized other weaknesses: “These small tiles on the display are an impertinence and thwart Volvo’s safety requirements.”

The first plug-in hybrid that AUTO BILD sent over 100,000 kilometers

How good that the Swedes have reacted, equipping all new ones with infotainment based on Google. But much more interesting is the drive, and here we are at the heart of this test: old Swede – very modern! The XC60 is the first plug-in hybrid that AUTO BILD has ever driven more than 100,000 kilometers. Two things can be observed. First of all, it’s great fun, the T8 pushes as if it were a sports car. 640 Nm system torque, in 6.0 seconds to 100, and that in a 2.2-ton SUV – respect.

Second, the guy drinks while traveling. Yes, plug-in, i.e. plug for electricity. Theoretically, more than 50 kilometers are electrically in it with a consumption of 2.5 liters of Super per 100 kilometers. In practice, the battery was dead after 30 kilometers, and when you step on the brush, chase it across the highway, it takes double digits.

For relaxed drivers 10, for sports fans up to 15 liters. Let’s agree on it: Anyone who commutes 30 kilometers to work and back every day and regularly recharges electricity is stingy with the fuel, on the AUTO BILD test round the bottom line is 8.7 liters. So saving through hybrid? AUTO BILD boss Tom Drechsler says: “The battery empties too quickly, even in the city, despite recuperation, consumption is too high – even compared to petrol engines without a hybrid.”

Before dismantling, the XC60 still has a straight A on the list

But you wanted to know why we take apart cars. At this point we have to take stock: According to the logbook, we missed two negative points for the XC60 – because of the cumbersome multimedia and the high consumption. So he goes to the dismantling with a straight 1. DEKRA engineer Marcus Constantin takes a very close look. And find something. For example, incipient corrosion on the edges and welds of the front and rear axle supports, a few chafed areas on the underbody that are showing the first signs of rust.

Not pretty, but not a cause for concern either, a good workshop will eliminate this during inspection. More serious is the following: The exhaust manifold gasket is leaking on cylinder one, the monolith on the first catalytic converter is broken, that on cat two shows slight cracks. There are two penalty points for the manifold and five for the cat.

Constantin: “You only hear it under full load, it can still be 20,000 kilometers or even 200,000.” Too bad, there could have been more. So we have to state: Twelve mistakes, the 1 became a 2+. The DEKRA man’s assessment: “Apart from these points, the overall condition of the car, based on the distance covered during the endurance test, is unobjectionable.” We say: who disassembles, sees more.