What sort of automobile is the 2021 Volvo XC90? What does it examine to?

The 2021 XC90 is a six- or seven-seat luxurious crossover SUV. It’s usually in contrast with autos just like the Audi Q7, BMW X7, and Acura MDX—nevertheless it takes a special path to its luxurious credentials. 

The 2021 Volvo XC90 places bluff and rugged luxurious SUVs on discover: there’s one other method, it proves, with small engines and discreet type.

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Is the 2021 Volvo XC90 automobile?

It’s excellent, particularly in T6 trim, the place its worth and efficiency hit steadiness. We give it a TCC Ranking of seven.7 out of 10. (Read more about how we rate cars.)

What’s new for the 2021 Volvo XC90?

All fashions now include blind-spot steering help, which directs the automobile away from approaching obstacles, and normal LED headlights. Wi-fi smartphone charging and entrance parking sensors are newly normal for 2021, too.

The XC90 stays one among our favourite luxurious SUVs, thanks partly to its rationally enticing type. From its spare LED headlight signature to its comparatively unadorned physique, the XC90 doesn’t must shout its luxurious credentials with a number of chrome and bling. Inside it’s a grasp class in understated magnificence, with high-end fashions draped in ribbons of whitewashed wooden and impartial leather-based. It’s so good, the iPad-style display screen within the middle of the sprint reads like a bit of assertion jewellery.

Volvo sells a base T5 model of the XC90, with a 250-horsepower turbo-4 and front-wheel drive (all-wheel drive optionally available) and an 8-speed computerized, however most drivers will decide the turbo-4 with supercharging and all-wheel drive within the T6. That automobile’s blessed with a peaceful demeanor from its out there air suspension to its gentle steering that’s the polar reverse of Germany’s brawniest SUVs. A plug-in hybrid, badged the T8 however being rebranded because the XC90 Recharge Plug-In Hybrid,caps the T6 drivetrain with 18 miles of electrical driving, however that appears too little, too late when Volvo guarantees an all-electric XC90 quickly.

The XC90 has six or seven seats with a usually excessive diploma of consolation, although the again two rows aren’t nearly as good at it as the luxurious entrance buckets. We like them greatest in wool, although actual or artificial leather-based are extra widespread. The XC90’s nonetheless a cargo champion, too, with as a lot inside area as the most important three-row crossovers from its rivals.

It additionally scores high rankings in crash-tests, and comes with computerized emergency braking, although the XC90’s driver-assist setup isn’t as clean as these from BMW or Mercedes.

How a lot does the 2021 Volvo XC90 value?

The bottom $50,640 XC90 in T5 Momentum trim has artificial leather-based upholstery, an influence tailgate, and Volvo’s 9.0-inch touchscreen interface with Apple CarPlay and Android Auto compatibility. On the high finish, greater than $70,000 buys a plug-in hybrid in R-Design trim, earlier than choices.

The place is the Volvo XC90 made?

In Sweden, although it is because of be assembled in South Carolina quickly.