Volvo V90: is this the best looking estate?

We've driven the new Volvo V90 in the UK and have a question: is it the tastiest looking estate car you can buy?

Volvo V90 Inscription

This week, we’ve been out testing the all-new Volvo S90 and V90 on the roads of Surrey. You can read our UK first drive of the S90 saloon next week, although Tim has already driven the V90 estate. Check out his review here.

A bit of background: the S90 and V90 are the latest cars to utilise Volvo’s Scalable Product Architecture (SPA), and follow the XC90, which remains our favourite seven-seat premium SUV. In the UK, the V90 estate is likely to be the biggest seller, not least because the Volvo estate is ingrained in middle-class culture.

Having stopped to take photographs on the beautifully manicured lawns of Coworth Park, we came to the conclusion that the Volvo V90, preferably in lavish Inscription trim, is probably the best looking estate car you can buy new. A bold claim, we grant you, but we were prepared to spark some debate on Twitter.


As you’d expect, not everyone agreed with our snap conclusion. Take a look at some of the nominations:

From Simon Harris:

From Iain Dooley:

From Simon Harris (again):

From Richard:

From Hugo Brailsford:

The Jaguar XFR-S Sportbrake is a very good shout, but as it’s no longer available to buy new, it doesn’t meet the criteria of our original tweet. If we were to open the floor to wagons of old, the V90 would face some fierce competition. Did anybody mention the Lynx Eventer? Or the Alfa 159 Sportwagon?

Yep, that’s a debate for another day.

But as it’s Friday, we thought we’d throw this open to everyone? Is the Volvo V90 Inscription the best looking wagon on sale today? You decide.

Oh, and much as we’d like to accept Skoda PR Graeme Lambert’s nomination for the Skoda Superb, we feel he might be a tad biased. Sorry, Graeme, just saying…

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Gavin Braithwaite-Smith
Gavin Braithwaite-Smithhttp://www.petrolblog.com
Writer with a penchant for #FrenchTat. Owns 15 vehicles of varying degrees of terribleness. Also doing a passable impression of Cousin Eddie in an Italian-German beige motorhome. Doesn't get out much.

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