Geneva Preview: 2011 Volvo S60
The 2011 VolvoS60 is set to make its debut during next month’s Geneva Motor Uncover, as well as as expected, the automaker’s newest midsize offering stays loyal to the judgment that bowed in Detroit last year and comes packing a formidable mix of tech and safety features.
A images in a art studio below verbalise for themselves, but with the sloping greenhouse and a pedestrian-safe front end, the all-new S60 positively packs more participation than a effusive model. A car variant is expected to arrive in Europe after this y ear, though Stateside consumers likely won’t get a moment during the five-door indication.
Compared to its predecessor, the S60 grows by asingle inch to 182.2 inches overall, with a 109.3-inch wheelbase (up by 2.3 inches over a final generation) as well as the one-inch widening up front, along with 1.7-inch stretch in the rear. All told, the S60 is reduction than 100 pounds heavier than a 2010 indication.
Power will be supposing by the twin-scroll turbocharged 3.0-liter inline-six putting out 300 horsepower and 325 pound-feet of torque, with maximum turn available at 1,500 rpm. Joined with a six-speed involuntary and the Haldex all-wheel expostulate complement, a S60 T6 AWD will run to 60 mph in 6.5 seconds as well as tip out at 155 mph. Expect a front-wheel expostulate model to debut alongside a wagon late in 2010.
European consumers will have their preference of the turbo’d and direct injected 2.0-liter four-pot, along with the diesel motor fuel and a dual-clutch gearbox. There’s additionally speak of the S40’s turbocharged 2.5-liter (T5) making the way underhood after in the S60’s lifecycle, that should be good for 227 hp and 236 lb-ft of torque.
Three separate cessation systems will be available: Base, Energetic and Four-C Adaptive. Energetic will be optional as well as make use of stiffer springs as well as bushings, total with retuned dampers as well as thicker piston rods, with a Four-C setup utilizing Volvo’s new adaptive damping system.
Naturally, reserve isn’t left out of the package, as well as with the S60, Volvo has incorporated it’s newest complement – Pedestrian Detection – that utilizes a City Reserve crash avoidance system, the front-mounted radar unit as wel l as mirror cameras to detect pedestrians over 31 inches tall and request the brakes to forestall a incident.
All a details are accessible in the press release below the overlay and expect the slew of videos after today showing the new S60 in movement.
Gallery:2011 Volvo S60
Show full PR textThe all-new Volvo S60 – sculpted to move you
A all-new Volvo S60 has the universe premiere at the Geneva Motor Show upon the 2nd of Impetus. It creates the entry into one of the automotive world’s toughest segments and is backed by an extroverted perspective that promises to deliver the thrilling pushing experience, innovative safety and beautiful design.
The all-new S60 has been sculpted to pierce you – both physically and emotionally.
It is but the disbelief a most dynamic automobile model Volvo has ever introduced – as well as its Walking Detection with Full Auto Brake is the groundbreaking safety underline.
“A sporty pattern delivers the visible guarantee of enthusiastic pushing characteristics and WE can assure you which the all-new S60 indeed lives up to which guarantee,” says Volvo Cars Boss and CEO Stephen Odell. “The driving properties are improved than those of any prior Volvo. The all-new S60’s innovative brandnew technologies help you become both the better and a safer driver.” With the all-new Volvo S60, Volvo Cars is more advanced its position in one of the car world’s most competitive segments: CD Reward.
“The competition is razor-sharp and a business know exactly what they want. The emphasis is on emotional stance, sporty pattern and dynamic driving properties. Success in this shred equatesto a lot for the brand’s picture as well as we are convinced which a all-new S60 will be asingle of a strongest contenders,” continued Odell.
Overwhelming coupe design with 4 doors
The all-new S60 is sportier as well as some-more dynamic than any prior Volvo. But it is still an unmistakable deputy of Scandinavian pattern at its best.
“A S60 has been sculpted to move you. Each single line in the design is there to transport you both physically as well as emotionally. The profile is really coupe-like so which the back doors come as something of a pleasing warn when you inspect a automobile close-up,” noted Volvo Cars’ Pattern Executive Peter Horbury.
The C-pillar of a all-new S60 stretches sensually all the approach to the tail lamps – and a slim coupe-like roof line is accompanied by the brandnew contour during the shoulders upon either side of the reduce body, creating the gentle nonetheless absolute dual cal l that sweeps continuously from a headlights to a tail lights.
The dip in a middle of a dual wave visually pushes a automobile down. This enhances a S60’s assertive position as well as makes a automobile demeanour sleeker and reduce. The sculpted metalcover and the redu ced overhangs front and re ar also emphasize the sports-car feel.
The most dynamic Volvo ever
The all-new S60 is most some-more than a beautiful investigate in design. It is without the dou bt a most driver-oriented car indication Volvo has ever presented.
“This plan has been about pure passion for the task of driving Volvo’s framework development expertise to the very pinnacle. We’ve crossed into domain where we’ve never been before,” commented Stefan S?llqvist, who is in charge of developing the framework of a all-new S60.
In the U.S., it is programmed which the all-new S60 will be offered with the sporty “Energetic” chassis as customary, while alternative markets will be offering with a “Joy” framework as standard as well as a “Energetic” chassis as an option.
The difference in float as well as handling between the two chassis alternatives can be found in a dampers as well as the front as well as rear subframes. A Joy variant has the somewhat softer setting to give a smoother float upon poorer highway surfaces.
During a development process, a chassis team carved out the holistic solution featuring changes and refinements for virtually each singular item which influences a car’s pushing properties. This includes softened steering, stiffer springs and bushings as good as some-more damping than in any previous Volvo.
The program in a All-Wheel Expostulate (AWD) system, which is standard on a S60 T6, has been modified to exploit the sporty brandnew chassis to the extent. A all-new S60 can be specified with a advanced, self-adjusting FOUR-C active chassis. A FOUR-C active chassis has been modified and refined for better control and more comfortable feel compared to previous Volvos.
Initial sedan with Advanced Stability Control
A dynamic brandnew chassis in the all-new Volvo S60 is backed up by a range of electronic systems that sharpen a driving knowledge even further.
The S60 is the initial sedan indication on the market with Advanced Stability Carryout. With the brandnew roll angle sensor, it is probable to brand any skidding bent during a very early stage. This means that a Dynamic Fortitude and Traction Control (DSTC) can step in progressing and with greater pointing. Modernized Stability Control is a good asset in dynamic pushing involving considerable lateral forces, thus mending doing as well as fast deterrence maneuvers.
Dilemma Traction Control for tighter cornering
Corner Traction Control is a new underline that uses torque vectoring so the automobile takes curves with lively as well as pointing. This technology is the further refinement of a DSTC complement. When cornering, the car’s inner driven wheel is braked at a same time as some-more power is transmitted to a outdoor driven circle. This allows the driver to take the bend some-more tightly while reducing any tendency to understeer.
THE highly modernized braking complement is an important part of the energetic pushing properties of a all-new S60. The sedan is versed with a number of features that interact to provide the shortest possible stopping distance in all scenarios.
Exquisite peculiarity inside
The interior of the all-new S60 takes Volvo Cars to the brandnew dimension in conditions of disdainful quality. In addition, Volvo Cars’ designers have added excitement, contrast and playfulness to a purify morality of Scandinavian pattern convention.
“A interior has a more extroverted perspective than prior to, though without losing any of the practical Scandinavian roots. A all-new S60 brings us up to the total new level when it comes to a constituent knowledge of color, form, element and technology,” said Horbury. Scandinavian pattern is mostly described with rational adjectives such as functionality, morality and distinctness. When formulating a all-new S60, a pattern group added the complicated touch as well as details which generate excitement, contrast and playfulness.
A interior of a all-new S60 is intemperate in conditions of the driver-oriented sum, but it is still a five-passenger automobile offering gentle space for all its occupants. A sculpted outdoor back seats give a newcomer in a middle welcome side support. A all-new S60 benefits from the scarcely 2.5-inch enlarge in wheelbase, from 106.9 inches to 109.3 inches over the previous-generation S60. This increase has the approach impact upon rear seat leg room. Rear passengers will notice a 2.0-inch increase in leg room. Knee space in the back chair has also increasing by 1.2 inches compared with the previous-generation S60. A rear seat splits 40/60 and a case is 4.2 inches wider than in the prior S60.
Walking Showing with Full Auto Brake
The sporty interior of the all-new S60 is also the most modernized vehicle ev er offered to the Volvo driver.
“The interior of a all-new S60 is all about innovative design in dual areas: form as well as record,” remarkable Tomas Ahlborg, Plan Executive for the all-new S60. “The pattern is characterized by sporty mutation down to a smallest detail. A technological aspect includes smart solutions that contribute to the driving experience distinct that of any other Volvo – from collision avoidance reserve and joy systems to infotainment and audio excellence of absolute world class.”
Pedestrian Detection with Full Auto Stop is a groundbreaking technological resolution. It can ack nowledge pedestrians who travel into the highway in front of a car, warn a motorist – and automatically request full braking energy if the driver does not respond in time.
“We are truly unapproachable of the success in making our technology so reliable that you can offer a finish system that can equivocate a collision with a walking by detecting, alerting and requesting full braking. It’s a world first, to the most appropriate of the believe,” noted Thomas Broberg, Comparison Safety Advisor at Volvo Cars. “With this technology you have increased the braking force in our involuntary braking system from fifty percent to full interlude power,”
Can avoid incident with the walking during up to 22 mph
In an emergency incident a driver first receives an audible warning total with the flashing light in a windscreen’s head-up arrangement. At a same time, the car’s brakes are pre-charged. If the motorist does not react to the warning and an collision is imminent, full braking energy is automatically applied.
Pedestrian Showing with Full Auto Brake can avoid a incident with a pedestrian during speeds of up to about 22 mph if the driver does not react in time. At aloft speeds, the focus is on n egligence down a S60 as much as possible prior to the stroke.
A reduce speed of stroke means that a risk of serious injury is significantly markeddown. For example, if speed is cut from 30 mph to 15 mph, Pedestrian Detection with full auto stop is expected to reduce the deadliness risk by as much as 20 percent and in s ome cases by up to 85 per cent.
City Safety standard
A all-new Volvo S60 als o features City Safety as standard.
With City Reserve, the automobile automatically brakes if the motorist fails to react in time when the vehicle in front slows down or stops – or if he or she is driving too fast towards the still intent. A system can lessen or even entirely avoid low-speed rear-end impacts at speeds up to 18 mph.
More powerful T6 version offered in a U.S.
In the U.S., the all-new S60 will be initially offering with a some-more absolute chronicle of the T6 engine now offering in a XC60 premium crossover. All T6 models come customary with Volvo’s all-wheel-drive system.
A turbocharged T6 displaces 3.0 liters as well as has been improved still serve, primarily interjection to lower inner attrition. It now pumps out 300 hp and no less than 325 lb.-ft. of torque. Increase in speed from 0-60 mph takes 6.2 seconds as well as top speed is electronically limited to 155 mph.
The engine’s energy is delivered to the wheels around Volvo’s second-generation six-speed automatic Geartronic delivery. New valves as well as reduce friction mean faster gear changes than before.
New infotainment system – as well as world-class audio complement
The all-new S60 gets an all-new infotainment system where information from a audio unit, navigation system, Bluetooth-enabled phones and alternative functions have been presented on a seven-inch high-resolution tone screen (U.S. models) in the upper part of a center console. The screen is commissioned tall in the instrument panel to make it easy for the driver to keep his or her eyes on a road.
“We have been one of the couple of manufacturers to give the driver access to all infotainment functions around controls in the steering wheel,” noted Ahlborg,
The audio knowledge in the all-new S60 has be en enhanced compared with previous models.
One of the first car models wit h MultEQ
A Volvo S60 is asingle of the first car models in a universe to use Audyssey Laboratories MultEQ technology, the customary for room equalization in the home and veteran drama markets. MultEQ removes distortion caused by a automobile cabin’s acoustics, enabling crisp, transparent sound with softened receptivetoadvice quality for everyone in the car.
“The many advanced system, Reward Sound, has the class-D digital 5×130W amplifier with circuits from Sweden’s Anaview, Dolby Digital in combination with Dolby Pro Proof II Approximate, the award-winning MultEQ from Audyssey Laboratories and 12 loudspeakers. All this creates an audio knowledge of comprehensive universe category,” said Ahlborg.
In further to the top-of-the line Reward Sound, the all-new S60 is accessible with the choice of three other audio systems.
Annual aim 90,000 cars globally
The initial annual target for a all-new Volvo S60 is 90,000 cars. The patron base is widespread scarcely uniformly throughout the universe. Europe (including Russia), North America and the rest of the universe will each account for about one-third of total sales.
The all-new S60 is built at the Volvo Cars factory in Ghent, Belgium. A initial cars will be delivered to European business this Sep, with U.S. S60s arriving late 2010. Pricing for the all-new S60 will be announced closer to a car’s on-sale date in the U.S.
“Irrespective of whether the business have been in the USA, Europe or elsewhere in the world, they all prioritize the same characteristics. Rightaway we have been giving them an wholly new S60 which has the unique appeal to even the many discerning of buyer s,” says Stephen Odell.
