VOLVO V70 · D5 Summum · Wagon · 2004 ‐ 2005

From 2004 Volvo began manufacture of cars type V70, modification of D5 Summum and terminated it in 2005. This automobile has five doors, the body is shaped like a wagon, weight 1.5 tons and length 4.7 meters, which allows a seat 5 people total.

«V70 D5 Summum» automobile with a 5-speed manual gear shift is fitted to the front-wheels. This automobile can be accelerated for 9.8 s to 100 km/h, with a top speed of 210 km/h, due to a 5-cylinders diesel engine with a «common rail fuel system», which produce a max output of 163 horsepower at 4000 rpm.

Gas tank capacity of this auto is 70 l of diesel, so when average fuel consumption is 6.7 l per 100 km (5.4 liters on the track, 9 liters in the city), that let you to go about 1045 km unrefueled.

The front wheels of this car have ventilated disks, 305 mm brakes and attached to the undercarriage with help of suspension «MacPherson, independent, coil springs» and equipped with stabilizer bar. Back wheels have disks, 288 mm brakes and fixed to the chassis through suspension type «Multilink, coil springs» and equipped with sway bar. Tires have the following size - 225/45R17.

According to the information of Euro NCAP crash test, this model of Volvo V70 gained the great quantity of stars - 4, indicating that it is a enough safe vehicle. Furthermore to passive safety (side, driver, passenger, head/curtain airbags), it is also has active systems of safety such as ABS, ESP, EBD, Traction control, Brake assistant.