Category: Executive 
Price Range: £22,245 to £36,745
Comfortable seats, good ride quality on smaller wheels.
Doesn't have the cachet of competitors, nor is it as good to drive.
An improvement over predecessor, but it's still not up to the German competition.
Insurance groupings kick off at 15E for the entry level cars, rising to an unsurprising 19E for the V8.
Service intervals have been helpfully extended, too, from 12,500 miles or one year to 18,000 miles or two years. There has also been, says Volvo, a 30% reduction in labour cost. Fuel consumption ranges from 44.8mpg for the 2.4 diesel to 23.7mpg for the V8.
