Volvo V90 Cross Country, unofficial car of Colorado and Vermont, is here
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The new V90 Cross Country is based on the same platform as the fantastic XC90 SUV, released in 2015, and is identical in many ways to the V90 announced earlier this year. According to a press release, Volvo took the V90 and increased the ride height, tweaked the chassis for "comfort and control in all weather and road conditions," and added "the heart of an explorer."
I don't know about that, but I know that Subaru Outback buyers once again have a luxurious, Swedish alternative.
Volvo V90 Cross Country is here
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Volvo Site: Discover the new V90 Cross Country Wagon and experience the beauty, ruggedness and practicality of Scandinavian design.
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Volvo execs talk self-driving aspirations over the V90 Cross Country reveal
The next steps for Volvo? Autonomous lane changing and driverless self-parking.
VAIL, Colo.—It’s 8am in mid-September, and the air in the Rocky Mountains is cold and crisp and still. A small group of journalists and car reviewers drive Volvo S60s and XC60s down 10 miles of dirt road to get to a lodge by the side of the picturesque Piney Lake, where the Swedish automaker will announce the company’s V90 Cross Country—the latest in Volvo’s Scalable Product Architecture (SPA) line of cars.
Mechanically, this new model is more or less a V90 tweaked to make it ideal (or so Volvo claims) for off-roading. (We should note the Volvo XC90 also handles off-roading, but that vehicle was curiously absent from the day's events.) The Colorado-based event, like its sister event in Sweden, was tailored to show the invitees that Volvos aren't just luxury vehicles—they're built for “Swedish ruggedness” and suffer “battle scars” easily. (I assumed “battle scars” to mean scratches and dings, although maybe even an arrow to the wheel—I didn’t ask.)
The next steps for Volvo? Autonomous lane changing and driverless self-parking.
VAIL, Colo.—It’s 8am in mid-September, and the air in the Rocky Mountains is cold and crisp and still. A small group of journalists and car reviewers drive Volvo S60s and XC60s down 10 miles of dirt road to get to a lodge by the side of the picturesque Piney Lake, where the Swedish automaker will announce the company’s V90 Cross Country—the latest in Volvo’s Scalable Product Architecture (SPA) line of cars.
Mechanically, this new model is more or less a V90 tweaked to make it ideal (or so Volvo claims) for off-roading. (We should note the Volvo XC90 also handles off-roading, but that vehicle was curiously absent from the day's events.) The Colorado-based event, like its sister event in Sweden, was tailored to show the invitees that Volvos aren't just luxury vehicles—they're built for “Swedish ruggedness” and suffer “battle scars” easily. (I assumed “battle scars” to mean scratches and dings, although maybe even an arrow to the wheel—I didn’t ask.)