Optional booster seats are so neat that it's almost worth buying the car for them. A portion of the rear seat cushion pops up to seat a youngster high enough to fit the car's safety belt. A simple latch makes it easy. And when the booster's down, you can't tell it's there. The clean exterior silhouette seems to be flowing, like wind-swept hair.
Little adornment mars the outside.
Inside, the dashboard is refreshingly straightforward. The dashboard's matte gray finish in the test car was lovely. V70's design nicely reargues the case that less is more. The ride, even in the stiff-tired T5 tester, was pleasant. An adequate inventory of nooks, bins, pockets and clips took care of most real-world needs.