‘You’ll miss me when I’m gone’ could be the torch song for Volvo saloons and estates, now that the company has axed them in favour of SUVs in the UK. Car buyers have only themselves to blame, of course. As Autocar reported recently, Volvo’s most popular car globally in the first half of 2023 – an SUV – outsold its entire saloon and estate range by a margin of nearly 70%. Among the fallen is the current, third-generation S60 saloon, which sold 18,000 copies in the period. Prices for this handsome model, launched in 2019, start at £20,000 for cars with around 30,000 miles.
Fortunately, you don’t have to spend that. Instead, prices for its equally handsome predecessor and the focus of this guide, the secondgeneration S60 of 2010-18, start…