Volvo V60 - Interior, design and technology

The Volvo V60 shares a similar interior look to its Volvo XC60, Volvo V90, and Volvo XC90 siblings, featuring a dash that’s dominated by a 9-inch touchscreen in the centre, with a few supporting buttons beneath.

Ahead of the driver sits a digital instrument cluster, vertical air vents on either side of the centre screen and a ribbon of trim (some of which is finished in a wood veneer if you go for the lighter colour interior trim option) running the full width of the dash. Build quality is good, although it's still not quite up to the standards of the Audi A4, although we can’t believe anyone will be disappointed.

The exterior takes the larger V90's general design and adds a little dynamism to it. So the front looks more athletic and the sides a little more swoopy and toned. The rear tailgate is more vertical than on the V90, helping to boost those boot capacity figures and make the V60 easier to load up.

Sat-nav, stereo and infotainment

The V60's nine-inch portrait touchscreen on the centre console runs an Android-based operating system with built-in online services, much like the Volvo XC40, Volvo XC60, and Volvo XC90. The screen has sharp graphics, and the menu layout has been made less complicated than previous iterations. It generally works best if you sign into its in-built apps (even though it’ll take a while to set up initially) because the Apple CarPlay smartphone connection doesn’t take up all of the screen. Wireless phone charging is provided as standard, along with Google navigation – the latter works well with voice commands and saves you from manually programming your route.

For those keen on listening to music as they drive, we’d recommend upgrading to Ultra Dark trim in order to get the 600-watt, 14-speaker Harman Kardon sound system.