There are four key menu items–navigation, audio, phone, and information-displayed horizontally across the screen. Standing tall-literally-in the dashboard is Volvo’s new infotainment system, which incorporates a slick, vertically oriented touch screen. ![]() There’s an available full-digital gauge cluster, as well as a 1400-watt, 19-speaker Bowers & Wilkins audio system that will make your tears shed tears of their own. The shift knob is a stunning crystal-glass unit fashioned by Swedish glassmaker Orrefors, and the engine stop/start button and audio-volume knob are both diamond-cut. The XC90’s cabin apes fine Scandinavian furniture, using swaths of supple leather, broad shards of wood, and metal. The new T-shaped LED daytime running lamps are dubbed “Thor’s Hammer” by Volvo-isn’t that seriously awesome?-and the taillights are squared-off takes on those of the V60 and (not for America) V40 wagons. The foundation of the 2016 XC90 is formed by its platform and its clean, handsome aesthetic, and both eventually will trickle down to other Volvos. Scalable Product Architecture, Scalable Attractiveness ![]() And what Volvo propaganda campaign would be complete without boasts of two “world first” safety technologies? Hardly able to contain itself, Volvo has been sneaking out packets of information on the crossover all year, showing us how the all-new infotainment system works, revealing the rich cabin, detailing the XC90’s muscular plug-in-hybrid powertrain option, and even giving us rides in prototypes in Sweden. So you must understand that the all-new 2016 XC90 is quite a big deal, akin to spotting a moose walking on its hind legs. A wonderful Yamaha-designed V-8 engine option came and went and a few tweaks hit the model for 2013, but it’s largely been status quo for Volvo’s de facto flagship. ![]() Since then, the XC90 has received remarkably few changes. That’s how long Volvo has been peddling its current XC90 crossover SUV, which debuted at the 2002 Detroit auto show before going on sale as a 2003 model.
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