Volvo C70 Coupé Convertible (06 on) - Review

Review by Simon Harris on
Last Updated: 13 April 2010
The Volvo C70 convertible injects a welcome dose of glamour into the Swedish firm’s range. Pitched to go head to head with premium rivals from Audi, BMW and Lexus, the Volvo boasts a complex folding three-piece hardtop in place of a cheaper fabric roof. This helps benfit weatherproofing and security while raising refinement. Inside the C70 lifts its interior from the its siblings which means there is the typical clean, minimal, and not to mention stylish approach to cabin design Volvo excels at. From the end of 2009 the C70’s style quotient was boasted even further with a facelift that saw the firm’s new corporate nose grafted successfully onto the C70. Inside, the materials used to craft the interior benefitted from a welcome boost in quality. The engine range carried over unchanged.
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Running costs

List prices for the C70 are not cheap, but it should depreciate slowly and is better equipped than equivalent models like the BMW 3-Series Convertible. The petrol engines should return 30mpg and insurance groups range from 15 to 17. Volvo dealers tend to be friendly and look after their customers well, so servicing, although not especially cheap, should at least be a pain-free experience.

* based on most recent data

Estimated fuel cost for 10,000 miles per year

Unleaded

£1,980 - £2,192 *

Diesel

£1,364 - £1,687 *

The estimated fuel cost figure is a guide to how much this model will cost to fuel each year, so you can compare between cars. It's calculated by using the model's average mpg (calculated from both town centre and motorway driving) and the average fuel price. It's based on the following cost-per-litre: petrol 135p and diesel 141p. Prices are updated daily.

Summary Running Costs

Servicing period

12 months or 12,500 miles.

Warranty

Three years/60,000 miles.

Road tax (12 months)

£170.00 - £460.00

Vehicle excise duty (VED) varies according to the CO2 emissions and the fuel type of the vehicle. For cars registered after March 1st 2001 VED or road tax is based on the car's CO2 emissions. For cars registered before March 1st 2001 it is based on engine size.

Full running costs data

3 out of 5

Green credentials

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CO2 emission figure (g/km)

Fuel economy rating

The arrows indicate the best and worst CO2 bands for this model.

Emissions summary

The C70 is only average when it comes to emissions and economy. Unlike other Volvo models there are no low-emissions DRIVe models, leaving the 2.0D as the greenest version. It emits 158g/km of CO2 and returns 47mpg. The T5 is, as you'd expect, worse with a CO2 output of 209g/km, but that's reasonable considering the power it offers.

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