Volvo does not build many cars like the Volvo V60: a 5-door station wagon / estate with Petrol engine, built from 2010 as electrification stopped being an experiment and the crossover took every market. Its designer of record is Örjan Sterner.
The story
The Volvo V60 is a compact executive station wagon (estate car) produced by Volvo Cars related to the S60 mid-size sedan. The vehicle was first released in autumn 2010, facelifted in 2014, and is in its second generation since 2018. The second generation V60 was launched in 2018 based on the Volvo Scalable Product Architecture platform. Both generations feature a "Cross Country" variant with a slightly increased (60-mm / 2.4-inch) ground clearance and ride height.
What is underneath
Under the skin sits Petrol engine; other versions carried different engines, listed in the specification table below. Kerb weight is 1623 -. The gearbox is a 6-speed Volvo M66 manual transmission / manual / 6-speed AWTF-80 SC / Aisin TF-80SC automatic transmission / automatic / 8-speed AWF8F35 / Aisin TG-81SC automatic. The wheelbase is 2776 mm. These are manufacturer figures carried by Wikipedia and Wikidata, not road-test measurements.
Its place in the line
Where it sits in Volvo's history is not in doubt: the Volvo V70 / Volvo V50 came before it; it was built at Torslanda. On a showroom list of its day it stood against the Nissan Leaf, the Lexus LFA, the Jeep Grand Cherokee. Nearby in the Volvo catalogue sit the Volvo 144 and the Volvo 264 TE.
The money
On the used market today a Volvo V60 typically changes hands for $18,900–$46,600, and running it — fuel and maintenance at its age — costs about $3,535–$5,254 a year. Insurance sits around $1,680–$3,010 a year. The figures are class-level estimates from the federal record, with the formula on the methodology page; the model-year pages carry complaints, recalls and repair costs year by year.