It’s telling that Volvo’s all-new XC60 crossover was introduced to the world’s press not by a safety engineer, but by a designer. And not just any designer: Thomas Ingenlath is the architect of Volvo’s recent move into a new era of stunning Scandinavian aesthetics, a change so radical that it’s getting hard to remember that Volvos once had all the style of a Cheerios box, the perfect look for a brand with a tunnel-vision focus on safety.
That was Old Volvo. This is New Volvo: hip, cool, and stylish. The Ingenlath revolution began with the 2016 XC90 crossover, a handsome hulk with an interior so richly adorned with open-pore wood, sumptuous materials, and sleek shapes it would look at home in a Roche Bobois catalog. The elegant 2017 S90 sedan and V90 wagon leveraged the same formula. Now comes the all-new 2018 XC60, which moves the brand’s sober-citizen-to-sexy-Swede evolution down one size class, where it will compete with luxury compact crossovers such as the Audi Q5, BMW X3, Mercedes-Benz GLC, and Porsche Macan. It goes on sale in late 2017, replacing a vehicle that has been in the U.S. market for eight years.
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