Guy tucks in front of you, and the car slams on the brakes. But on a packed I-95, no matter how careful you are, you can't eliminate the random behavior of other drivers. Sure, you always should signal and keep your distance from the car ahead. Otherwise, you get scolding beeps when you change lanes without signaling, and an explosion of noise and red light from the dash top if you get too close to the car in front, followed by automatic panic braking from the car's save-your-keister system. Optional safety gadgets were a mixed blessing.Classy materials, nice controls, easy-to-use gauges. Puttering though slow/stop/go traffic delivered upshifts followed immediately by downshifts in a jitterbug spiced with what felt like the occasional straddle of two gears at once and sometimes what felt like no gear. But nail the gas to squirt into a hole in traffic and you get a delay, then a slam-bam downshift. The turbocharged six-cylinder is rated 281 horsepower, 295 pounds-feet. The return was literally stop-and-go, punctuated by short, high-speed opportunities. Northbound on Interstate 95 and the New Jersey Turnpike were fast and furious. Doesn't activate slower than 2 mph or if the driver is turning, accelerating, braking (even resting a foot on the brake pedal).Ī 500-mile Virginia-to-Manhattan round trip for the New York auto show provided other insights. Three standard items enhanced the XC60's appeal: all-wheel drive, free satellite radio for six months and City Safety, a system that can automatically brake before you tail-end the car ahead in low-speed traffic.ĭesigned to compensate for distracted drivers, City Safety judges distance and hits the binders at speeds from 2 to 9 mph. For $1,000, you get heated seats front and rear, headlight washers, heated windshield-washer nozzles, rain-sensing wipers - useful features, even if you don't live in Fargo, N.D. When not in use and articulated into the rear seat, the boosters are invisible to eye and rump. Safety belts automatically take the proper height and angle. Two positions fit taller, heavier kids and shorter, lighter ones.
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