GLOBAL car brand Volvo will use the Shanghai Auto Show in China to lift the lid on the most luxurious vehicle ever built by the Swedish company in its 88 year history – an elegant and refined four-seat version of its recently launched XC90.
The XC90 Excellence has been crafted by Volvo’s designers and engineers to offer customers a distinct and individual automotive experience that incorporates the latest Scandinavian innovations in design, refinement, comfort and style.
The Excellence is based on Volvo’s XC90 sports utility vehicle, but has just four seats compared to the original’s seven, creating an enormous amount of additional space for rear seat passengers that delivers an exceptional customer experience.
This space is utilised to offer a first class automotive experience that begins with broad, spacious individual reclining rear seats complete with massage, ventilation and increased leg room. In addition there is as a retractable control touchscreen, folding tables, a refrigerator with bottle and glass holders, a heating/cooling cup holder and handmade crystal glasses from leading Swedish glass design company, Orrefors.
“This is our new flagship car,” said Thomas Ingenlath, Senior Vice President, Design. “We have created the ultimate luxury experience of Scandinavian design. Volvo has never launched a car like this before. This is the car that demonstrates what the name Volvo now means.”
The XC90 Excellence offers its passengers footrests, ambient lighting, illuminated storage, unique leather detailing in blond or charcoal, a luggage compartment dividing screen, additional sound insulation in the cabin, and Pirelli Noise Cancelling System tyres (PNCS).
Passengers will also enjoy a specially-augmented Bowers & Wilkins audio system that adds an extra speaker to its 19 speaker system, resulting in unrivaled high fidelity sound reproduction and surround effect in the rear seats.
“What we have designed is among the best rear seat experiences available in a luxury car,” said Mr Ingenlath. “The result is a superlative environment for relaxed comfort or doing business.”
Reinforcing the Swedish love of fresh air, the XC90 Excellence comes with an integrated ionic air cleaner in the CleanZone climate system. The ionic air cleaner works by positively charging electrons in airborne particles (dust or smoke for example) so they are removed from suspension in the cabin environment.
The XC90 Excellence also offers a leather instrument panel with contrasting thread, while the headliner of the cabin is colour coordinated pure Nubuck textile. Exterior styling differentiators include an Excellence rank mark, chrome B- and C-pillar capping and lower door moldings.
