By Ron Amadon, MarketWatch
DAMASCUS, Md. (MarketWatch) — There are lots of people who really don’t caring about how many pound-feet of torque their automobile has or how long it takes to get to 60 miles per hour.
They want a stylish set of wheels, one that’s not in every drive on the block, and on the oppulance side of the ledger.
The Volvo C70 T5 hardtop-convertible is such a car. It carries on the Volvo tradition of carrying very gentle seats, looks good with the hard tip up or down and is installed with reserve equipment.
Enter the new-for-2012 Inscription, of which Volvo
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will send only 500 to North America. It has a leather-covered lurch and change push with resisting stitching, daytime using lights, a foe steering circle and a somewhat different griddle among other things.

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The 2.5 liter, turbocharged five-cylinder engine delivers all the energy the standard owners would enterprise — 250 horsepower with 273 pound-feet of torque, which is another way to contend it is pretty discerning to collect up speed. Zero to 60 came in just over 7.5 seconds.
The EPA says owners can design 18 to 28 miles per gallon, and Volvo recommends reward gasoline. we logged 21.3 mpg in a week’s testing.
There is a accessible switch on the core console that lowers the top, providing that some cosmetic tools in the case are in the correct order. A summary pops up on the instrument cluster to prove the pierce is complete. It seemed to me to take about 30 seconds to lift or reduce the top.
Wind resistance on the widespread is well contained; withdrawal the side windows up or down doesn’t change that. With the tip down, you have one very appealing car, but case space suffers. Cargo can also be stowed on the back seats which, due to a miss of space, aren't even child size.
It is a different story up front. The Inscription has two of the best seats we have ever gifted in a exam car. Long trips would be a no-brainer. To the driver’s right is Volvo’s longtime “floating center” console with easy to figure out audio and movement controls. But it is also the interior that lets down the whole car.
First, a $50,000 automobile doesn’t have a manually set lumbar composition mounted awkwardly on the side of the seatback. While the exam automobile came embellished in lots of leather and other peculiarity ingredients, in all black it was one of the dullest-looking instrument panels we have ever seen and not, in coming at least, up to the cost level. The armrests need some padding, too. With lots of options, the tested automobile listed for $50,375.
Being Swedish, we am wakeful of Volvo’s adore of rather elementary designs. They went overboard here, and even the aluminum-looking core console can’t assistance the situation. There is a need for a resisting tone or something, anything, go give some life to the interior.
The navi system looks like a last-minute add-on. It is tranquil by a four-way toggle behind the steering circle and a box that looks like a TV remote. Even when the tone shade is up from the bed atop the dash, the illustrations are on the small side, and programming will exam your patience. we incited it off for sanity’s sake.
All this can be mostly ignored on an 80-degree day when the tip comes down and the Inscription turns into a highway cruiser. That is the loyal charm.
But we would be also checking out the competition, including the Audi A5 and the BMW 3-series droptops.
If you think there are too many of them on your block, then Volvo’s Inscription just might be what you’re looking for.
Vehicles tested for this mainstay are on loan from the automobile companies through internal distributors.
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