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Car & Driver likes the S60 Cross Country

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Even if I don't. (The looks of it, I prefer wagons, and much prefer wagons when the car is lifted.)

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Some ideas keep coming back. First, AMC put four-wheel-drive hardware under a Concord station wagon (née Hornet Sportabout) and dubbed it the Eagle—and then doubled down and pulled the same stunt with a sedan (and a coupe!). A decade later, Subaru tried the same thing and created the Legacy Outback wagon; and eventually it, too, thought What the heck, people are snapping up those Outback wagons, let’s try a sedan. Now Volvo is applying the formula for its thematically similar V60 Cross Country to the be-trunked S60.

The result is this S60 T5 Cross Country, which follows the V60 Cross Country into the breach by one model year. And to be fair, there are far more illogical ideas in the auto market (BMW X4, we’re looking at you). Volvo isn’t trumpeting this one’s sales potential too loudly—a spokesman told us there’d be “maybe 500” for North America this year. Given the tiny projected volume, Volvo builds ’em in a single trim level, the fancy Platinum, so the starting price for the sedan is higher than that of the V60 Cross Country, which comes with fewer technology features.
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So the "cross country" label is not always a station wagon? That's certainly confusing.
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And the T5 is not always a Turbo 5 cylinder. Marketing run amuck.
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