One of our two XC70 cars is a D5 Polestar (230 hp, 470 Nm). As green van man says, towing works very well with it. My caravan is a 1700+ kg, but that's no problem. You don't have much use the the lower five gears. It's not much of a problem with the other XC70 either, which is a D4 (181 hp, 400 Nm). However, the length of the caravan, on one axis, implies a rocking movement, which the Nivomat in the D5 neutralizes very well. But in the standard suspension D4, it keeps on forever.
Torque steer I don't see, as long as the DSTC system is fully activated. It hardly spins at all even starting at full throttle on gravel surfaces. Set it to DSTC SPORT and it's a different game altogether.
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