It’s comfortable and it’s practical - particularly with the third row dropped down for added cargo space. It may be the luxury SUV I would choose for my everyday suburban dad life, however. The XC90 is not the SUV I would hoon around the Nordschleife, nor the SUV I would choose for traversing the Australian Outback. Still, I remained well within the normal usage levels, so this sort of issue is a little disconcerting. I also did my errands in short bursts, which Volvo says limits the range vs.
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I had to keep the XC90 outside, since it didn’t fit in my garage. Some caveats: it was cold during my test period, dropping down to about 20 degrees Fahrenheit at night. It drained precipitously while out running errands I had to switch to gas-only mode to reserve some battery to test the hybrid mode on the highway.
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Volvo says the XC90’s plug-in-hybrid will do 12-to-24 miles on pure electric power, but I’m not sure I got 12-to 24 miles of battery operation in hybrid mode on a full charge. (The only touch that came off a tad excessive was the Orrefors crystal shifter.) The whole experience leaves you feeling like you’re basking in the serenity of a Scandinavian five-star hotel…at least, until your kids pipe up from the back seat. The vertical touchscreen is refined, simple, and easy to use. The XC90’s interior looked and felt luxurious it had Nappa leather, gray ash wood trim and a plush Nubuck headliner. The sound quality was just one part of the multi-sensory experience. Indeed, it was perhaps too good I listen mostly to podcasts and audiobooks, and I could have done without knowing how every host’s seasonal colds were progressing. The sound quality from the fancy Bowers & Wilkins premium sound system may be the best I’ve experienced in a car. It was the coincidental SiriusXM preferences of the person who delivered it to me, but it felt like it should have been a feature. Learn More: Here The XC90 offers top-notch luxury.Ī classical concerto broke out when I first turned on the XC90.
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The five-year-old XC90 still feels modern, luxurious and potent - and it still puts some newer and more expensive luxury SUV offerings to shame. The car also packed Volvo’s best powertrain, the T8 E-AWD plug-in-hybrid, which puts out 400 horsepower and 472 lb-ft of torque while still delivering reasonable gas mileage. I drove the now top-level Inscription trim in full, impress-the-car-reviewer spec - i.e., with about $20,000 in options. Volvo’s SUV of the future is now very much the present as such, the XC90 is now a venerable model getting a few tweaks for 2020 ahead of a full overhaul down the road.ĭespite its age, however, the XC90 remains one of the most compelling luxury SUV options on the market. When it launched, the second-generation model heralded the brand’s SUV-centric future - one packed with impressive levels of luxury and safety tech, all based on Volvo’s new Scalable Product Architecture (SPA) platform. The XC90, at least for the time being, is Volvo’s flagship luxury SUV.