Volvo Hatches Another Wagon With the V90
CARS.COM — Wagon fans have perhaps the highest-tech wagon yet in the all-new Volvo V90. Volvo unveiled the wagon today, a car that shares its platform with the recently introduced S90 sedan and seems poised to replace the aging XC70.
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The V90 shares the S90’s bold face, Thor’s-hammer headlights and flat belt line. The rear window and taillights lean sharply forward — even more so than the V60 wagon’s tail, let alone the XC70’s upright rear. That might pinch cargo room, but it should be considerable nonetheless: Judging by the V90’s profile, there’s still a lot of car behind the C-pillar.
Volvo promises the V90 will have “the most advanced standard safety package on the market.” Like the S90, the V90 will offer Volvo’s new Pilot Assist semi-autonomous driving system as well as a system that detects large animals. Volvo also will offer a plug-in hybrid version, which it calls the T8. The automaker says it will put out “around 400” horsepower and offer roughly 30 miles of all-electric driving range.
The V90’s five-seat interior shares the S90 and XC90’s Euro-cool styling, with minimalistic controls, plenty of stitched surfaces and a large, portrait-oriented dashboard touch-screen. Other details are sparse, but Volvo says it should hit U.S. dealerships sometime in 2017.
