Volvo V50 Estate

The versatile Volvo V50 is a handsome and desirable family estate car, despite its age

Go green and cut costs with an ecoestate. We pitch the new Volvo V50 DRIVe against the established VW Passat BlueMotion.

Base diesel estate benefits from eco makeover – and £35 road tax.

Sporty styling and hi-tech auto gearbox give compact Volvo estate a boost.

Volvo mildly revised load lugger looks better, but does it load better?

With gutsy and efficient performance, the new Volvo V50 has strong appeal

The V50 is the 'sports estate' sister car to the S40 saloon range, competing head-on with the Audi A4 Avant, BMW 3 Series Touring and Jaguar X-Type es…

There have been two major surprises to running the V50 for the past eight months and 17,000 miles. Firstly, it's proved more practical than many in th…

What's the mark of a good long-term car? Simple: the number of people who ask to borrow it. Ever since the Volvo V50 arrived last July, I've been inun…

Not that long ago, Volvo load-luggers and their owners were the objects of derision. How times change. By focusing on performance range-toppers and ve…

Given the chance of an extended holiday, most people would jet off to some exotic location. Not me. Instead I chose to drive 3,500 miles around Europe…

No doubt about it, the Volvo XC90 was one of our best-ever long-termers - the giant SUV never put a foot wrong. Of course, this made it harder to say …

Just two weeks ago, we named the brilliant new S40 saloon as the finest compact Volvo ever. Its combination of crisp styling, dynamic handling and val…

Dog lovers, antique dealers and country types take note! Volvo is not the car company you may have thought it was. The all-new V50 estate is so comple…