猩式车评：沃尔沃XC60

The Clarkson review: Volvo XC60

猩式车评：沃尔沃XC60

whoa, this is a very good car

北欧好车 家用一流

Saturday September 27 2025, 10.00pm BST, The Sunday Times

发布于2025年9月27日，泰晤士报

In the past four years the number of people in Britain who believe that the warnings about global warming are exaggerated has increased by a whopping 50 per cent. Astonishingly, the trend is particularly noticeable among teenagers. It was reported last year that a third now say climate change is probably nonsense.

在过去的四年里，认为全球变暖警告被夸大的英国人猛增了50%。令人震惊的是，这一趋势在青少年中尤为明显，据报道去年三分之一的年青人表示气候恶化的警告就是瞎扯淡。

Even Greta Thunberg has abandoned her global warming crusade, deciding that the plight of the Palestinians in Gaza is more important than the weather. This must be a worry for the Labourites because, as we know, Rachel Reeves is currently busy dreaming up an exciting range of new and punitive taxes so she can pay for net zero — a policy that increasingly isn’t seen as remotely important.

就连格蕾塔·桑伯格（环保少女）都放弃了她对全球变暖的抗争，觉得巴勒斯坦的加沙地区遭遇的困境更严重，转向了对止战的呼吁。这对于英国现执政党-工党来说并不是好消息，因为现任英国财长Rachel Reeves正忙着设计一系列全新的惩罚性关税政策，以用于支付净零排放所需的费用——而净零排放这个政策本身都在被其他国家逐渐忽视。

Meanwhile, there’s further news that less than a third of the population agree with the government’s decision to ban the sale of petrol and diesel cars after 2030. Almost two thirds want to buy a car, not an electrical white good that makes their lives more annoying.

与此同时，还有消息称，对于英国政府在2030年后停止汽油和柴油车辆销售的决定，仅有不到三分之一的英国人支持，三分之二以上的人都想买一台正儿八经的汽车，而不是那些惹人烦的白色电盒子。

This sudden shift back to normality has plainly caused a fair bit of bottom puckering in the boardrooms of Europe’s carmakers. They’d all embraced the diktat that petrol and diesel would soon be phased out and were merrily spending billions on electrification. And now they’re finding out that the majority of their customers aren’t interested.

这种回到正常又突如其来的转变让欧洲各大汽车厂商里满脸褶子的董事会成员们愁眉苦脸。他们曾接受了汽油和柴油车将逐步退出市场的强制要求，并花费数十亿英镑全身心地投入电动化时代。然而，现实却告诉他们大部分的顾客对电车不感兴趣。

This is why Mercedes is quietly lobbying various EU policymakers on the need to relax the 2030 deadline. So is Volkswagen. And news reached us recently that Stellantis, the corporate giant that runs Vauxhall, Peugeot, Citroën, Alfa Romeo and Fiat, has already dropped its commitment to become 100 per cent electric.

这也是为什么奔驰和大众会悄悄游说欧盟的各种立法委员会，让他们放宽原本2030年禁止燃油车销售的限令。不仅如此，合并了沃克斯豪尔、标致、雪铁龙、阿尔法罗密欧和菲亚特的欧洲汽车巨头Stellantis近期已经放弃了100%电动化的策略。

This causes me to wonder what’s going on at Jaguar. It stopped making cars with internal combustion way ahead of time and announced that an electrical replacement was on the drawing board. Is it regretting that now? I think it probably should be.

这也让我想起了捷豹的近况。他们早早地决定停止制造燃油车，全面转向电动车，宣称电动化捷豹已进入设计阶段。他们现在会不会后悔当初的武断呢？我想应该会吧。

The fact is this: something with an electric motor is not a car. It has no soul. Lucy Jordan would never dream of driving through Paris in a Tesla with the warm wind in her hair. Because there’s no romance in an electrical car. It is a white good, like a chest freezer or a washing machine. And if that’s all you want from your personal transportational device, you’re going to buy something made in China. Because it will be cheaper than something made in Munich or Coventry.

事实在于，铁皮盒子加电机并不能算作一台真正的车，它没有灵魂，Lucy Jordan（来自美国乐队Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show演唱的叙事民谣歌曲《The Ballad of Lucy Jordan》）也永远不会梦想着开着特斯拉穿过巴黎，让暖风穿过她的头发，因为开电车是没有浪漫可言的。它们跟冷柜、洗衣机一样，只是家用电器罢了。如果你只需要一台供你移动的个人交通工具，去买中国车吧，它们比在慕尼黑（德国巴伐利亚州首府）或考文垂（英国中部城市）生产的车要便宜得多。

And that brings me neatly to a Chinese car that is disguised as a not-Chinese car. The company is owned by the Chinese giant Geely, but you wouldn’t know it because the car comes with a badge that’s as Swedish as Abba, dynamite, Spotify and those annoying cartons that spurt milk on to your trousers every time you try to open them. Yup. What it says on the back is “Volvo”.

这让我想到了一家“挂羊头卖狗肉”的中国汽车厂商。它属于中国汽车巨头吉利，但你不知道它来自中国，因为它挂的是瑞典牌子，就跟Abba乐队、炸药、Spotify（音乐流媒体平台）和那些每次打开牛奶盒都会溅你一裤子的奇葩包装（瑞典利乐公司，提供牛奶外包装）一样。没错，我说的就是沃尔沃。

It’s the XC60 and I wasn’t looking forward to driving it as I pretty much loathe all the cars in this sector of the market. The Audi Q5 is a pair of slacks with some windscreen wipers, the BMW X3 is ugly and the Mercedes-Benz GLC is driven by the sort of people who stick to the 20mph limit. Because as often as not they campaigned for one in their village. Again, we have to bring up Lucy Jordan, who never dreamt of driving through Paris in a mid-sized crossover.

他们最新送测的车型是XC60，这并不是我期待体验的款式，因为中型SUV市场的所有车型我都挺讨厌的。奥迪Q5就是一条带雨刮器的休闲裤，宝马X3丑陋至极，奔驰GLC的车主大多都是那些在路上二三十码龟速行驶的二逼，因为他们经常在村里要求实行20mph(32km/h)限速。于是，我们要再一次提起Lucy Jordan，她是绝不会梦想着开这些中型SUV穿越巴黎的。

To make things even worse, the Volvo sent to my house was painted in what it calls Mulberry Red, which sounds quite pleasant but it was actually a sort of American motel room burgundy. So, a boring car in a bad colour. And at this point I have to say keep reading because, whoa, this is a very good car.

让事情看起来更糟糕的是，沃尔沃送过来的新车还涂着一层所谓的“森莓红”，听起来还挺不错的，实际上看着更像是美国汽车旅馆里常见的勃艮第红。所以，一辆无聊的车配上一套糟糕的车漆。不过，请继续阅读下去，因为新XC60是一台非常优秀的车。

First things first. It’s a really nice place to sit. Today, car interiors are all broadly the same. It’s like someone figured out where everything should go and what everything should be made from and now everyone just makes sheep noises and follows suit. Not Volvo. The materials are different. The look is different. Everything is different. The key fob is orange, the starter button is a knob and the gearlever is made from Orrefors crystal. A crystal gearknob! How cool is that?

首先，新XC60的车厢坐着真的很惬意。现如今，新车的内饰基本都如出一辙，就像是某个人定下了各个位置摆放的内容，然后其他车企发出羊叫声，无条件地服从这一决定，但沃尔沃并非如此。遥控钥匙是橙色的，启动按键换成了旋钮，还搭载了一个由欧瑞诗（瑞典水晶品牌）制作的水晶档把。水晶档把！多酷啊。

It’s not just stylish either. It’s as easy to use as a tea towel. When other carmakers fit a button it does different things depending on how often you push it or how long you hold it down for. Not Volvo. Each button does one thing and one thing only. You want to turn off the speed-limit warning bong? You push a button. And it’s a big button, so you can operate it wearing gloves. And no, you can’t change the layout of the dashboard. And you can’t alter the drive mode either.

XC60内饰的设计风格不仅独特，各项功能操作起来也很方便。当其他厂商装一个按钮，又给它赋予多个功能，取决于车内人员按多久或按几次时，沃尔沃反其道而行之，每个按钮只代表一个功能。想要关掉超速警告？按一下按钮即可。而且那可是一个大号按钮，所以哪怕你戴着手套也能正常操作。而且，你不能随意更改仪表盘上的显示布局，也无法设置不同的驾驶模式。

I should mention the seats at this point. They are very attractive and extremely sporty, so they look like they might be a bit uncomfortable. They aren’t. Nothing is in this car. It doesn’t ride over bumps, it glides. And for 2025 more sound insulation is added, so it’s quiet too.

座椅也应该重点讲一下。新XC60的座椅非常有吸引力，运动感也很强，所以初看之下，你以为坐在车里会不舒服。但事实并非如此，新XC60能过滤一切颠簸，它不是骑过障碍，而是直接滑过去。在新款车型上，沃尔沃还增强了隔音效果，所以车厢内部无比静谧。

The engine? Well, you can have a hybrid if you want your car to be extra-heavy, but as I’m in tune with the times and see no need for this net-zero nonsense, I went for the 2.0-litre, four-cylinder petrol engine. It’s not quite big enough for a car of this size, and not very refined either, so it sounds as if it’s working its nuts off half the time. Perhaps that’s why it’s quite thirsty.

引擎又如何呢？如果你想让新XC60变得异常沉重，可以选择混合动力单元，但我跟选择跟时代同步，坚持与所谓的“净零排放”划清界限，搞了一台2.0升涡轮增压四缸发动机。对于这个尺寸的SUV来说，2.0T的马力输出不太够用，运转起来也不够精致，所以在我开着它的一半时间引擎听起来都在疯狂地输出，或许这也是它油耗不低的原因。

But if you’re just bumbling along — and let’s be honest, in a mid-size Volvo that’s what you will be doing — it’s fine. Actually, you’ve no choice but to bumble along because all Volvos today, even the 448-brake-horsepower XC90 T8, are limited to 112mph.

但是，如果你只是日常通勤驾驶——开着一台中等尺寸的沃尔沃，这就是它的使命——这具引擎的表现还可以。实际上，现如今的沃尔沃让你没得选，只能慢慢开，哪怕是454匹马力的XC90 T8，极速都被限制到180km/h。

Let’s talk now about the all-wheel drive system. You’re never going to need it, really. This is not a car for conquering the Kalahari. But there’s no harm in having it, and I suppose it might come in handy if you go to a gymkhana and it’s raining and you have to park in a field.

接下来，让我们聊聊新XC60搭载的四驱系统吧。你永远都不需要它，真的。XC60可不是一台能让你跑到喀拉哈里沙漠（非洲南部沙漠）征服自然的越野悍将，但是，有四驱总比两个轮子干挠强。如果你开着XC60到某个马术比赛的现场，当天又下雨的话，你就能借助四驱系统轻松地把它停到场地里。

What you do need in a car of this type is all the school-run stuff, and don’t worry on that front. Twenty-three years ago Volvo became the first carmaker in the world to employ a man with actual children to design the seven-seat XC90, and plainly he’s still there because the XC60 is riddled with switches and levers that don’t break your nails and seats that don’t weigh more than the moon. You can therefore raise and lower the back seats with one arm while holding a baby.

如果你想买一台XC60这样的SUV，那你的需求基本都是上下学接送孩子，在这一点上，沃尔沃也想得很周到。二十三年前，沃尔沃就成为了世界上第一家雇佣奶爸来设计汽车的车企，而他们的第一款家用SUV正是经典的初代7座XC90。很显然，这位奶爸如今依旧在沃尔沃尽职尽责，因为新XC60车上的各类旋钮和开关都不会折断你的指甲，座椅也不会像其他车一样比月球还重。所以你能一只手抱着孩子，仅凭另一只手轻松地把后排座椅抬起或放倒。

This is an impressive car. It’s priced to match its German rivals but it’s better. It’s unassuming, comfortable, sensible and, inside at least, beautifully appointed. And in less than five years you won’t be able to buy it any more.

XC60是一台了不起的车。虽说它的售价跟同级的德国劲敌们差不多，但它的表现更好，低调、舒适、理性，而且内饰也设计得很漂亮。或许在五年后，我们就再也买不到这样优秀的家用SUV了。

Or will you?

真的再也买不到了吗？（指2030年油车禁售的限令）

沃尔沃XC60 B5 AWD Plus

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