Volvo S60

When you review a lot of vehicles like I do, many start to blend together. So it’s nice when something stands out. It makes it worthy of being written about here at 95Octane, where our motto is “Cars That Don’t Suck.”

My parents had a Volvo station wagon when I was in high school. Battleship gray, with a manual transmission. I drove that thing like it was a sports car. Or as I imagined it, like the heavily modified S60 T5 that Matt Farah takes for a spin on Encinal Canyon Road above Malibu in this video from The Smoking Tire.

If you’re under the age of 45, or have a workplace environment any louder than the Chicago Botanic Garden, the following words probably won’t be much interest to you. I say that because the Volvo S60 makes absolutely no apologies in not trying to capture the youth market.