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But AWD isn't the panacea one would hope for S60

posted by  rollie on  Tue Oct 22 07:04 CST 2002
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Actually, FWD isn't necessarily convenient for the manufacturer. It is cheaper than RWD cars for low priced high volume cars but that is not the case with Volvo. In Volvo's case they've spent millions in designing suspension geometries (which can still use some tweaking), transmissions, etc. due to their FWD (and transversly mounted engines) setup. From all I've read and been told Volvo did it for safety reasons and because FWD delivers better cold weather traction.

Volvo has never been, nor pretends to be, a company that manufacturers sports cars (and I would argue that no sedans qualify as sports cars but that's another topic - and yes the M5 has nice specs but it's too heavy to be tossed like a true sports car). While some of us would appreciate the benefits of RWD over FWD I think for most of us high-powered AWD is a good compromise (otherwise we probably should be looking at real sports cars). Just my opinion...

Thanks.

-rollie






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