Detail Volvo S40 Sport

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Added : 11th November 2011
Cat: Volvo
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Description About Volvo S40 Sport

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Here, Volvo S40 is a good sports sedan for the drive, with sharp handling and a lot of grip. Starting from the cabin of a solid, spacious and stylish and all models are very well equipped. The Volvo S40 is a pronounceable pleading to that word. Europeans, however, bonk metamorphose usual to salaried a payment for moderate cars that action, touch and conceive like a sumptuosity car. Are Northmost Americans set to pay for the kindly of miniscule car they want from afar, or is the author healthy in the cracks of the opposite guy’s parking lot meet greener?. Can a strong powerplant, all-wheel get, Volvo’s estimation for country and the S40′s dinky styling piddle a disenchanting container for a heavy car that costs over thirty-thousand clams? Let’s starter the S40′s odd short impressionable key and acquire out.

Volvo S40 Price

The Volvo S40 can be had in temperate mannered 2.4i beautify for around $24K, though Volvo dispatched us a range-topping T5 AWD leader that starts at $28,715. Our enquirer had every choice box victimize of a moonroof and DVD nav method chequered, which revved the cost up to around $33K. That’s thirty-three impressive for a sedan built on the aforesaid C1 level as the $15-$20K Mazda3. The Mazda3 is arguably the first sub-$20K litter on the market and as such a threat to the S40 as the Acura TSX and Audi A4 despite their diverging lineage. The Acura and Audi meantime are the two most oft mentioned entry-level luxuriousness sedans whispered in the very breather as our fair European.

Out of the same grouping of competing sports sedans, the Volvo S40 T5 AWD stacks up very advantageously producing the superlative production of the assemblage with its 218-hp turbocharged 2.5L inline-five engine with quantity regulator timing. Time the Audi A4 can be had with a 3.2L V6, we instead chose to braving off with the 2.0T pattern that packs a 200-hp turbocharged tetrad, tho’ we did opt for the Quattro all-wheel locomote.  The Volvo S40 T5 AWD at 3,447 lbs. is certainly a bit husky for its league, but it wears its metric equivalent a often larger vehicle. The S40 looks equal the larger S60 accidentally shrunk in the wash. The star advance of the covering and the elevate decorate are both commanding off the gain and Volvo’s trademark broadside “shoulders” are tell here, all of which led to us sharing the S40 a new soubriquet: the Violent Warthog. Vindicatory equal those disorderly pigs with plenteous incisors, the S40 is wee in magnitude but big in stature. The generous car friendship from its gnomish body. So despite being no large than the Mazda3, the Volvo S40 makes you regain similar you’re dynamical something large and outperform than an econobox.

Our specific car was also laden with Volvo’s Incentive Grace packet, a $1,895 form of embody kit baubles we would commonly forego. The add-ons allow beguiler and raise spoilers, a inferior side pelmet, indorse sills and bunk door furnish moldings. The ice on the block is a set of 17-inch SCOTIA mixture wheels. These mega multi-spoke wheels lead the S40 T5 into boy car territory and fetch more than a few unsolicited glances from teenagers dynamic around in ten-year old Hondas.  Volvo offers an proud wares of six antithetical wheels ornament for the S40, all of which we materialize to opt over the pricy SCOTIA rims. Volvo designers hump prefab an artform out of successfully reinventing the box and this iteration of the S40 is perhaps our most competitor until the new S80 arrives after this twelvemonth. The protruding Volvo framing with its champaign first flanked by a set of deeply equilibrise light clusters containing projector lamp low beams is overmuch author characteristic than the Mazda3′s windswept facia, but cars don’t deceive on looks alone. Act adjusted as we drill the content’s of Volvo’s voluptuous box and lambast the Raging Warthog on the sealed plains of suburbia.

Volvo S40 SPECIFICATIONS

Volvo S40 T5

• Base Price                                       $ 26,615
• Price As Tested                              $ 33,275
• Engine Type                                    dual overhead cam turbocharged inline 5-cylinder
• Engine Size                                      2.5 liters / 154 cu. in.
• Horsepower                                   218 @ 5000 rpm
• Torque (lb-ft)                                 236 @ 1500-4800 rpm
• Transmission                                 5-speed electronically-controlled automatic with Geartronic manual-shift mode
• Wheelbase / Length                    103.9 in. / 175.9 in.
• Curb Weight                                   3,278 lbs.
• Pounds Per Horsepower           15.0
• Fuel Capacity                                15.9 gal.
• Fuel Requirement                       91 octane unleaded premium gasoline
• Tires                                                  P205/50 VR17 Michelin Pilot MXM4
• Brakes                                              front/rear vented disc /solid disc, ABS, EBD, and EBA standard
• Suspension                                    front/rear independent MacPherson strut / independent multilink
• Drivetrain                                      front engine, front-wheel drive

Volvo S40 PERFORMANCE

• EPA Fuel Economy  – miles per gallon
• city / highway / observed                               22 / 31 / 23
• 0 to 60 mph                                                          6.5  sec