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People. That’s who Volvo alleges their cars are made for. Until dogs or potted plants learn to drive, it may be a painfully obvious statement but, together with their hashphrase #MadeForYou, it does evoke warm fuzziness that this isn’t just another cold-hearted maker of mass transport.
A gruff, off-beat sound usually accompanied by a whistling turbo charger can only mean one thing: five cylinders. With even numbers being the preferred stencil for engine manufacturing, the five-pot is just as quirky and potentially unbalanced as those little three-cylinders.
Sometimes it’s great to be a motoring journalist. Hang on, actually it’s pretty awesome being a car journo. Our own cars tend to be non-existent, broken or extremely impractical so when some unexpected visitors propose a scenic tour around the Cape Peninsula, one simply phones around a bit.
Did you design your own house? Have you got a truly puzzling music collection? You have an iguana instead of a retriever, don’t you? If you refuse to go mainstream by getting a Golf GTi and have been longing for something rather eccentric with a dash of fun, meet the Volvo C30 T5 R-Design.
You should never meet your heroes. They might turn out to be rude, stupid or suffer from halitosis. In other words, quite disappointing. To be completely honest, the Volvo C70 T5 I tested recently was only mildly disappointing and is actually an offspring of my chosen hero, the plain but elegant C70 Coupe from the dawn of this century.
Dit was Volkswagen wat die naam “Kombi” ‘n huishoudelike woord gemaak het toe hulle die eerste generasie bussie in 1956 in Uitenhage begin bou het en teen £674 verkoop het; £105 méér as wat die Kewer se prys was.