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A while back I had the opportunity to attend a car preview for the new Volvo XC60. I will admit that I jumped on the opportunity. Not because I like that type of thing, but because I’ve had a picture of an XC90 on the bulletin board above my desk for quite a long time. In my mind’s eye the 90 was my dream mommy car. I ended up with something significantly less cool-mom, but the picture remains.

So if the XC90 was my “dream” car why on earth would I want to attend a preview for the XC60? Free snacks of course. What can I say, I’ve been a Lutheran way too long. Actually I did it because this is a smaller version of the XC90 and it has new stuff. All sorts of fancy new stuff. Besides, I thought my husband would get a kick out of it. We pawned the child off on the trusty in-laws and headed out to the local dealership.

Once I got past my “I’m totally uncomfortable in situations like this and have to pee” phase we waited for the unveiling of the car. A few very lovely ladies outlined all of the new features of the XC60. Things like City Safety and built-in child booster seats. However, the sales staff had me hooked with (optional) heated rear seats. Such little things amuse me. You have to fess up that you too like a heaty seat. Nothing better than a warm seat on a cool morning. Don’t believe me? Try it, you’ll like it.

I was also impressed with this whole City Safety thing. I’m fairly convinced that all cars should come with this little feature. It’s basically dumbass protection. The car does things like automatically stops or slows down when you are about to rear-end someone. Derek totally needs this. Better yet, City Safety is standard on all XC60s. Standard. That’s actually better than the optional rear heaty seats.

In the end I was totally impressed with the car. If I had the $32,995 (for the 3.2 engine or $38,650 for the T6) I would have signed up for one on the spot. After all, I would have walked away with other features such as panoramic roof, iPod jacks, leather interior and a Bluetooth system standard. The list of standard features is about a mile long whereas with any other car the front seats are optional.

Sadly, my pocket book (and credit) are such that I’ll continue to drive my less cool mom car, but I did walk away with some swag. They gave out roadside emergency kits. So when you do get stranded because you aren’t driving the super awesome mom car you can at least feed your kids bagged water and MREs.

So tell me what you think.  Does it rate as a super cool mom car or would you rather be driving that mini van?