2015 Volvo XC90 Revealed

Volvo has at last pulled the covers from its big new seven-seat XC90 SUV, almost exactly one year since the first shadowy teasers were revealed.

The result of three years development and a nearly $12 billion investment (a cost that will be spread across Volvo’s new models), the 2015 XC90 replaces a model that first appeared in 2002.

And while that first-generation XC90 will continue in China as the ‘XC90 Classic’, this all-new model will make its global showroom debut over the coming months.

All-new it is, too, with Volvo’s new Drive-E engines providing motivation and the company’s versatile Scaleable Platform Architecture (SPA) sitting beneath.

New Design Language

On the styling front, the new XC90 is the real-world realisation of a design boss Thomas Ingenlath’s new look, revealed first with the Coupe Concept last year.

More specifically, the big new SUV takes its styling directly from the three-door XC Coupe concept that debuted early in 2014.