We are getting a CPO V60 - Yay?

[BrianV70]

My wife is picking up a CPO 2016 V60, FWD with ~20,000 miles this weekend in Dallas and driving it back to Colorado. It will be her car.

Should I be excited or fearful? Have these been around long enough to have much of a track record? Our warranty will be good until mid 2022 (7 years from in-service date). The auto start-stop scares the be-jeesus out of me. One more thing to degrade and fail with age.

Our benchmarks are:

'97 850 n/a auto. was pretty solid except RMS, ABS module, catalytic converter

'05 SAAB 9-5 Arc (the big turbo). Total POS, tons of problems, but blissful to drive. Two throttle bodies, replaced a turbo, DI cassette, too much other stuff to remember.

'10 VW jetta TDi sportwagon. Turbo failed at 35,000 miles. Didn't fix it and took the buyback.

My current car - '00 V70 XC AWD/SE. Long story, but we've dealt with most of the major deferred maintenance from the previous 3 owners. Could still drop a couple grand on "stage 0" repairs and maintenance. (this is a 'bridge car' after the Jetta TDi)

I wish she was getting AWD for two reasons - all that power to the front wheels, and winter traction (but we use winter tires). Although with the money we save w/o AWD, we can buy multiple sets of the best snow tires $$ can buy. Plus, we'll be adding a larger AWD vehicle to the fleet soon enough.

The V60 is lighter and has more power than the SAAB we had. Should be a hoot to drive!

[BrianV70]

Well, it has arrived. I've only driven it around the block. Feels like a bank vault.

Haven't had enough road yet to put the pedal to the mat.

[Rattnalle]

It should be pretty solid since the model's been around a while so they've had time to sort things out. What engine does it have?

As for power and winter traction you don't *have* to use all of it all the time you know . I'd see no AWD as a plus any day.

[BrianV70]

2.0 turbo

[Rattnalle]

Is it really branded as such and not T-something? I thought they switched to that naming convention across the board when all engines started being replaced by the 2-liters. Is it the 250 hp version since you say it packs a punch?

[URDRWHO]

Is it the drive-e model. Engine shuts off at stop lights? We test drove one that was a drive-e 2 litre with turbo. The car did have good pickup.

I just got a 2016 AWD V60 T5 and it is a fun car to drive.

All of our other Volvo's engines ran well for many, many miles. One had 220,000 on when we sold it and that wasn't one thing wrong with it.

2.0 turbo