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2001
ICOTY Awards - Station Wagon
Most
Dependable: Volvo Cross Country
 You’ve
gotta be brain-dead if you haven’t noticed the new
breed of Volvos. It’s as if the boxes they came in
have fallen off and what is left are the Volvos they’ve
always been meant to be. Curves are now where the edges
used to be. A swept-back windshield imparts a sense of speed.
Clearly, the "Re-Volvo-lution" is on.
Case
in point: the new Cross Country. Who would have imagined
even ten years ago that Volvo would be building a slick,
all-wheel-drive, turbocharged wagon that would have style-mongers
lining up around the block? And the mere concept of the
Cross Country: a Volvo wagon for the trails? You’d
have called us crazy! Well, okay, the Cross Country is not
exactly a Jeep Wrangler off-road, but it does have a good
bit more ground clearance and an impressive all-wheel drive
system to help you in snow, rain and light off-road trail-running.
The light-pressure turbocharged five-cylinder engine is
plenty powerful, and is smooth and quiet to boot. Accommodations
are first-rate, thanks to standard heated leather front
seats, facing a clean, ergonomically superb dashboard. Furthermore,
the optional rear-facing third row seats turn this butched-up
wagon into one sexy seven-seater. The Cross Country takes
the already outstanding V70 wagon and makes it even better,
cooler, and even more competent, with fewer limitations
as to where you can go and what you can do with this sweet
new Swede. For additional information on the Volvo Cross
Country directly from Volvo, click
X Country.
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