VOLVO V90

Anyone who thinks estate cars have had their day clearly hasn’t experienced this one. Oliver Young reports

In the TV show Friends, Phoebe once said: “Load up the Volvo. I want to be a soccer mom” – and this essentially sums up the manufacturer’s past image. Particularly with its estates, you often found yourself buying one purely because of its sensible, practical qualities that worked for your everyday family life. Travel to the present, though, and it’s a somewhat different story. The Volvo V90 we’re featuring here is a far cry from its boxes-on-wheels predecessors. Sure, it remains spacious and easy to live with, but now there’s much more style and luxury mixed in. Designer Thomas Ingenlath managed to keep the family-friendly interior but mix it with a healthy dose of Scandi-cool. The materials used throughout the interior look and feel expensive, while a 9.0in portrait touchscreen takes centre…

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Autocar (Digital) - 1 Issue, August 3, 2022

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