Volvo XC60 crowned 'Best Premium SUV'
Volvo XC60 crowned 'Best Premium SUV' at Auto Express
Awards
Friday 30 June 2017, 12:57PM
By Impact PR
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XC60 praised for its style, quality, technology and
comfort
• Described as "the complete package"
by Auto Express
• XC60 will soon be available
in petrol, diesel and petrol-electric plug-in hybrid
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The Volvo XC60 has been voted 'Best Premium SUV' at the Auto Express New Car Awards 2017.
The new XC60 won praise for its interior quality, design, technology, spaciousness and comfort-oriented approach. Auto Express's expert testers also said the XC60 has "a level of safety, connectivity and autonomous technology that leads the sector" and that it "will be a very easy car to live with day-to-day".
Commenting on the award, Steve Fowler, Editor-in-chief of Auto Express, said: "Volvo has done it again with the XC60. The XC90 has been a serial winner at our Awards and now the XC60 wins at the first attempt. It's another super-stylish SUV from Volvo that offers a level of quality, comfort and technology that rivals can't – it really is the complete package."
This second-generation
model has all of the advanced connectivity and safety
equipment introduced in Volvo's award-winning range of large
premium cars. It also brings Volvo's latest elegant
Scandinavian design to the mid-size SUV class, along with
the brand's ground-breaking Sensus touchscreen control
system.
The XC60 will be available with a range of
powerful yet efficient engines, including the innovative T8
Twin Engine plug-in hybrid. This combines a petrol engine
with an electric motor, making it a near-silent
zero-emission city car one minute and a high-performance
family SUV the next.
Volvo NZ’s general manager Coby
Duggan says the next generation XC60 is expected to be well
received by Kiwi motorists when it launches in November this
year.
“Since its launch in 2009, the Volvo XC60 became
the best-selling premium mid-size SUV in Europe with nearly
a million units sold globally, and represented 30 percent of
the brand’s annual sales in 2016.
“Receiving early recognition such as the Auto Express 'Best Premium SUV’ award is an indication the car’s style, sophistication and cutting-edge connectivity will offer New Zealand consumers a new level of automotive quality when it arrives here later this year,” he says.
The XC60 wasn't the only successful
Volvo at the Auto Express Awards. The XC90 – a two-time
winner of the 'Best Large SUV' award – was also highly
commended in the 'Best Large Premium SUV' category this
year, showcasing Volvo's expertise when it comes to
SUVs.
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