2016 Volvo XC90 T6 Snowy Off-Road Review: Will it Go in the Snow?
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- Опубліковано 7 вер 2024
- ( www.TFLcar.com ) The 2016 Volvo XC90 T6 is stunning new crossover with groundbreaking design inside and out. But the question that Nathan and Roman answer in this TFLcar off-road review is how does it handle the Colorado snow and mountains.
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This is one of the most beautiful looking SUV's in the current market. Simple and elegant. I just love every aspect on this car. I I shouldn't forget to mention about how the interior looks top-notch.
your are so right beautiful exterior as interior
Best SUV on the market for the money currently.
jimbush80528 And? Not sure what you are getting at here.
+MrGovenator1 Quality and reliability.
jimbush80528 Its actually built in Sweden, you know that right? Volvo is only owned by a Chinese company.
jimbush80528 It looks like they are building a plant in the States too. The more Volvos the better in my opinion. Their company was crumbling under Fords ownership, and it seems this new Chinese company is finally going to do good things with Volvo. I believe I heard Volvo bought Polestar too. So I believe its safe to say we will start to see more performance Volvos heading to the market.
+jimbush80528 Made in sweden. China gives the cash. Dumbass.
best car right now through all categories
+Timo Ta Mercedes g-wagen is better off-road and faster if you go for the top engine.
+Verliebt i think he meant one car for all categories
MrKevlarkent would still apply to the g-wagen since it does everything the XC9 does, but does some stuff better.
+Verliebt xept its ugly as fuck and i bet its not as safe
+MrKevlarkent Gwagon, ugly!???Well beauty is in the eye of the beholder!But u can't fault it on safety!It is a Merc!
In Poland when there is snow on the road we put winter tires on.
No you don’t..... your all here..... poland is empty now
I wouldn't even go to the grocery store with those tires. Anyone who drives all-seasons during winter in Vermont will not be able to even get to work and back on time. Sort of silly to conduct off-road snow testing with street tires. Like hiking in loafers
+Vermonster I honestly don't know anyone who actually buys snow tires. And I live in Utah and we get quite a bit of snow. All seasons are usually fine for on road use.
I agree with you. Those tires would be sketchy as F in New England snow on such a large car, especially in the hill towns. My mom runs 4 studded snows on her XC60, and the same on my saab.
+Nick Olsen I ran my Pirelli all seasons one winter when they were less than a year old, because I was too lazy to switch out to the snow tires in the basement. lolll Was surprised how well they did, but my confidence fell through the floor. I don't have the patience for all seasons, scary as F on ice.
Says the guy who can't even spell.
+Nick Olsen Same. I live in Buffalo and most people who use snow tires around here have Ontario plates.
I can't believe I'm just seeing this video... I currently have a 2018 xc90 T6. I wish I we could do an updated version of this video. My Cross climate 2 tires are absolutely amazing. ive owned the car for for 3 years now put over 100,000 Miles on it and its been AMAZING and still in 2024 looks timeless.
Hey Guys, Long time subscriber/fan. I remember years ago you use to do on/off road reviews. It seems lately if it is a SUV/Truck it is off road and if it is a car/coupe its on the track. I love the off-road stuff but can you do on road reviews as well? It may end up being a 15 min video but who cares, getting both would be awesome and really informative.
Thanks for the comment and the great suggestion.
Remember when this channels name was RomanMicaCarGuy?
+police1184 I remember when Roman had his own hair.
MrKeyboardCommando lelelelelelelel
Troy Strain Yeah, Roman gave Chewbacca a Brazilian !!!! That's why I always write nice things about the daft old fart. 🤕
How can you guys do a "Snowy Offroad Review" without Snow tires. What a waste of time!
I love the looks of the XC90. Waiting on the review of the R Design.
I have an older version 06 XC90 and it's the best car I've ever owned. I can only imagine how good this one is
We have an '04 and a 2018... love them both.
um... hate to spoil the fun but this is normal street snow in Quebec and we go through that daily with Civic corolla and everything else equiped with winter tires. All seasons are not even allowed in winter.
+TheBillproject Good thing snow tires are mandatory eh? Can't even imagine driving in winter with anything but snow tires. It would be a disaster on the streets without them
+TheBillproject Indeed. When looking on those tires, as a Swede myself, they look like summer tires.
+Krille3 lol so you see the same thing as me: a nice clean road. they testing like its some offroad situation... with all seasons!
TheBillproject
exactly! the XC90 wouldnt have any problem getting up that road with normal winter tires :p
my honda civic has no problem with roads like that with the winters on lol
Great to see you twi making these old school tfl videos together again!
Summer tyres? With winter tyres a Volvo 240 would make that lil' hill.
I've been waiting for a snow video of this new Volvo. Wish it had dedicated snow tires though.
Love these guys for their fair reviews. Love where Volvo is going.
An engine that is both turbo and super charged is referred to as being "Twin Charged". This was the term used in the 80's Group B cars.
I like that you guys realize proper winter tires can make a big difference but I would enjoy reviews with them on. Maybe winter tire comparisons on the same car or something.
I have the last gen XC90 with Blizzak tires, and it is unstoppable in the snow. I am sure this one with my tires would be even better (I don't have the height adjustable suspension) and more capable
Hey guys. You are still the most fun car review videos around. Keep up the good work. If I am ever in Colorado I'd love to meet you guys.
Why drive around on summer tires in snow? Here in Norway it would be illegal and you would probably loose your drivers license if you did it.
You'd get a big ticket if you did that too in Sweden.
Rune Venes the snow melts fast and plows clear the roads after the snow stops, Why put them on to take them off 2 days later?
leave them all winter lower than 7 degree the summer tire compound is too hard
I used to have before becoming disable a volvo v70 country 4wd and it was a brilliant car, not best for off road due to clearance but snow on road it was like a snowplough, all the years I had it I never spent a penny other than std servicing and tyres. the volvo is a good car always has been
3:17 "All-season" tires fail once again...
+lfsracer79 - 21 inch Pirelli Scorpion tires are great performance tires and do a great job going around a corner on dry asphalt, but they're terrible on snow, even worse than regular all season tires.
+Torkil Berg At 3:00 they tell you the about the tire. I've had these 21 inch Pirellis before--great for cornering on dry asphalt, but terrible in snow.
+lfsracer79 those weren't all-season tires. those were summer tires.
Verliebt
They're actually performance tires. See 3:00. 21 inch wide Pirelli Scorpions. Much worse than all-seasons in snow.
+lfsracer79 I don't see the point in testing the car in snow and ice with ''All-season'' tires. It's just a marketing scam. I don't know why anyone would use these tires. Here in Sweden you have summer tires and then you change in October-November to winter tires, either friction or with studs :p
I like your channel a lot, and find it very professional in general. But it's simply ridiculous doing this test without snow tires!!
great job guys this is a really honest review that car wouldn't make it up there the tires cant grip. and im very impressed with the level of info and specs shared im the review. nice car too
Thank you!
+The Fast Lane Car you're welcome
Finally a real test drive. The car is great. But it is annoying when the companies make it seem that these cars are safer and can topple snow, sleet or anything. This a great car for rain, very light snow without ice and good weather.
This car reminds me of those new modern house designs. Looks really clean and sophisticated.
how stupid it is to drive a car on snowy road without winter tires? next time take there Ferrari and you'll get 1 millon views in a week.
Great idea. Will do
+The Fast Lane Car I love the answer.
watch them do it
+gargilbert If this car had a tire arrangement more like an 80's or 90's car ( thicker side walls, not quite as wide, and slightly softer, more pliable rubber), it would have done much better. I have seriously went up hills like these, with my moms 1986 Oldsmobile 98 with regular all weather tires and front wheel drive.
These guys review EVERY snow condition tests with shitty tires. Tells something about the jounralistic level.
Great job guys. Thank you.
Best Winter tyres. Nokian Hakkapeliitta R3 and best experience were Goodyear Ultra Grip Ice on ice covered highways, with only rear wheel drive, all other cars stuck in the ditches including Subaru. Tyres are the most important purchase.
Made in Sweden !!!!totally sophisticated design.I love it
We can clearly see that those tires have NO snow-grip at all. Snow needs either diagonal lines (50% of ascending 50% decending, grooves must not be very upright). This tire is purely for efficiency. Just take Nokian Hakkapelliitta R2 SUV and it will climb easily.
Nice coverage. I've wanted one of these so bad since seeing them a few months ago. Beautiful car and nice to know the AWD system works decent in snow. Thanks!
The AWD works great in the snow as long as you use winter tires and not"all-season".
Heaven forbid that I should insult anybody's intelligence by pointing out the blindingly obvious, but, with this car producing 316hp from two litres, having a 140mph top speed and a sub 7 seconds 0-60mph time, I would respectfully suggest it is intended as a performance vehicle rather than a cross-country plugger. As such, it's tyres will always be high speed orientated.
Put better tires on the car amd try again. The car can't be blamed for no traction if you use crap tires.
Would love to see you guys take this up gold mine hill. would also like you to focus more on how, and how well, traction control works, i.e. when one or two wheel are in the air. In this clip it looked terrible - all wheels spun. It seemed the brakes were doing very little to limit wheel spin and transfer torque. Why is that? How complicated could that be to program? Seems toyota A-Trac and all land rover systems, among others, do much better. I don't understand why every car can't do that - it's just ABS and some software. Would also like to see a comparison with this, the V90/V60 cross country wagons, and a Subaru or two (get two with different AWD systems, clutch pack vs vicious coupling) in snow. Roller tests would also be helpful to really see what's going on with the AWD - you can always incline the tests or put obstacles under the wheels to add difficulty.
Glad you like "our" latest flagship.... /Sweden
+Jonathan Engström It's an absolutely cracking car.
Troy Strain Your comment is 100% correct, but, I fear, addressed incorrectly.
Troy Strain Really, and what's blocking your ability to correctly address your comments ?
Troy Strain Before I can differentiate inferences, there has to be plural inferences, and I have to recognise them. Errors made by your good self do not qualify as inferences.
Troy Strain No, all I can I can "recognize" is a lot of static. It's doing nothing, it's going nowhere, and it means bugger all.
I don`t know for you guys in states, but in EU we use winter tires in winter, it would easily go up that hill...
As a Swede I approve of your "Sven"! Great review.
Nice Video and review. Why does only Roman gets to drive nice cars ;-)
Roman they are winter not snow tires. I would buy this vehicle if it were made in Canada, USA or Sweden. If it's made in China I would expect a deep discount or I'd pass. Keep up the good work men.
Hey TFLC I am a long time fan and I really want you guys to do a video of the 2007-2014 GMC Yukon Denali Off-road test... I mean EXTREME OFF-ROADING
This car works well in snow, but get a dedicated set of tires on the 19" rims Volvo offers.
You should had gone with proper winter tires with metal studs, for example Nokian Hakkapeliitta. I mean, what's the point with this?
Awesome car. Still have to get used to the looks as an oldfashioned volvo guy, but it's working haha.
Haha. I'll go for quality and descent luxury and handling at the same time and choose my 1998 V70 ;)
My SX4 would eat snow there, esc. with new set of real winter tires. Nice video and Mary Christmas !!
Come on guys...With a little more momentum you could be on the top.. i know that the tires are not helping but it is possible ..This volvo is the best (overall) SUV ever made , it combines sportynes-off roading-safety-comfort in such a way no other suv (till now) can do it !
love the frameless rearview mirror
Only gripe about this car... calling it a T6 which used to stand for Turbo 6. Audi did the same thing, called their 3.0 super charged engine a 3.0T like the 2.0T that had a turbo... Bugs me so bad. Everyone does it now, BMW included.
Why would you take a car to the snowy mountains without winter tires? To make matters worse, you're doing it for a review with a headline: "2016 Volvo XC90 Snowy Off-Road Review: Will it Go in the Snow?"
is there a reason why 6 and 7 pos. headsets are in up position?
Gott Nytt År from Sweden. Great review. back in Sweden we drive the XC90 with studded snow tires.
Do you own an XC90?
get sponcership or something by tirerack or similar so you will get all types of tires whenever you want
hi there, thanks for your efforts,i will suggest to have a set of snow tires ( one with a wide range, to be used in many SUVs) because like this VOLVO we need to see it with snow tires and how it will perform, actually many other Cars need it to be retested in snow.
thanks
You should try nokian hakkapeliitta 8, Its the best winter tyre!
Can the Volvo XC90 T6/T8 tow a trailer for some weekend or cross country travel or maybe occasional work utility trailer.
Hey guys,
Realy enjoyed your review but I don't think it's fair to do an off a snow road review without proper snow tires.
Testing vehicle in snow or ice, you need winter tires. My Mercedes AWD with winter tires can go over 12"+ snow with ease.
All I can say, proper tires will make a big different.
See the comment at 03:00. 21 inch Pirelli Scorpion tires are great performance tires and are fantastic for cornering on dry asphalt, but they're terrible on snow. Worse than even regular all season tires.
Please support them with patronage so that they can make even better videos.
Are you using summer tires uphill in the snow???
Great video. Looks like you guys have a lot of fun test driving. Does the XC90 have a lock for the AWD system? The Haldex, without a lock, isn't overly competent for off-road type driving. But then again this car is way too luxurious for that anyway.
You guys should have done a "real world 0-60mph" test of the XC90 T6.
The air suspension cost around 2k. Is worth the ride for that amount of $$?
Is to expensive to climb only 1.5 inches
+J Mayas I test drove both. The air suspension has a smoother feel to it. The vehicle actually lowers at higher speeds as well to improve handling.
Can you do a video where you put snow tires on it and see how it does?
Colorado is beautiful
It’s all about the tires and with a car this heavy not a chance
Best looking SUV and its also the best one out there.
Best job ever
Self cleaning tires are the worse. You want snow stuck in the tire. It gives better traction
I live in sweden, the home of Volvo.
And those tires are illegal here in winter.
0,5cm snow or under 5 degrees celsius and those tires are deadly.
The rubber mix is made for summer, so they are getting too stiff.
Will you guys test this thing in the gold mine hill? It's good to see how the AWD system works in this SUV
You need snow tires dudes. BTW, I met a Danish guy in Bali decades ago who did a killer Swedish Chef.
Is there a 2016/2017 Q7 off road video from you guys yet to compete with this XC90?
Why not review Volco XC90 T8 407 Horepower
Could you guys re do this test with this vehicle
In sweden there is a law of that we need to have snow tiers almost 4-5 Months every winter cuz there is snow on almost every highway
Put Nokian hakkapelita 8s (Finnish studded snow tire, supposedly the best of the breed) on the cars for these tests, maybe they'd sponsor these tests and provide the tires for ya, I can't think of a better way to demonstrate the tires capability but more importantly it'd evenly compare AWD systems and certain vehicles ability to gain traction.
Sweden country is orignazed country. Sweden has rules Winter tires in Winter time . Summer tires in Summer time. And about Driving License u have to be Profficainal to get the License. That's why Sweden country has less Traffic Accidents . Ppl use Busses Trains good Transportation system
Winter test on summer tires is lunacy.
Nice review. Good looking ride.
Make a review for the new volvo V60/S60 (Polestar) pls
Why dont u guys try out the ACURA MDX with SH-AWD and see how it performs on this track.. I want to see how the torque vectoring helps if at all on this.. Please guys see if u can do that..
Please do this with the T8 PHEV
So there are no winter rubber to buy in the US? Can you get rubber with spikes? and how is the winters in Colorado? is it just snow on the hills or everywhere during december and januari like in Sweden?
Yeh 21" is kind of crap when it's winter, you can get 18" as the smallest for this car, way better but not perfect for winterconditions.
We test all cars with the tires that come from the factory. We have access to great snow tires, but we do not have the budget to equip all test vehicles. The snow is only in the mountains now. The snow melts in town.
The Fast Lane Car Thumbs up!
What kind of tires do you get in the US? We have alot of brand but Nokian, Continental and maby Pirelli is the best when it comes to good spiked winter tires.
At the moment winter hasnt struck yet in the bottom part of Sweden but around Christmas i bet we gonna have snow all over.
Is that even studded tires?
Beautiful truck.
Nicholas Mazaras what are you talking about.. it's not a truck
Summer tyres ? In the EU winter tyres are obligatory if there is snow. Those tyres don't have the traction to go up. Put some winter tyres and it will climb that hill. Don't know how you guys roll in the US but wtf ???
my lifted F350 with lockers and Goodyear wrangler duratracs wouldn't even break a sweat. get good tires.
Yea this was the first and I have been looking
I bet if they'd been in a Subaru Outback they would have have made it up all the way no doubt about it.
As long as they had a vape pen...
lol perelli scorpions? Yeah, not real winter tires. I bet it would have got up that with some more aggressive tread.
That was an excellent Swedish chef
it seems that you have allseason tire under there and those suck on any area, no good on summer or winter, why even bother to use such, thou i do understand its fexibility but still no good those are.
Why do this without snowtyres?
Driving with those tyres in winter conditions here in sweden will get you a hefty ticket...and you're not allowed to continue to drive so you have to have it towed...
Next time do it with winter tyers
winter or all weather tire???
it makes a lot of diference
The Volvo had all season tires. Winter tires would have been another story.
+The Fast Lane Car sorry but that tires aren't all season tires. are 100 % summer tires.
Old test already but still relevant (or rather irrelevant) Summer tires in winter up hill ....is is a safety standard in US? :)
Use proper winter tires or at least use proper all seasons ones (no M+S are not proper all seasons)
you can change to offtoad mode on the screen!! PS i am swedish!!
This is not very good, put winter tires on it atleast, you did a video with sport tires on?
¡Simon ese! at 0:27 I laughed so much!
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