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Volvo XC90 R-Design – the Photos
We’ve got a complete selection of photos of the XC90, which highlight how well it’s design has matured. The R-Design elements of the XC90 show are highlighted in the pictures, with everything from the photo of the rear diffuser and tail pipes to pictures of the more aggressive bumpers and grill, demonstrating that the XC90 really does add to the XC90’s desirability.
The interior photos also show off the R-design at its best, with the quality black leather R-Design seats – with cream highlights – extending right the way through all three rows of seats.
We chose a rural setting for the XC90 R-Design photo location. But not green-lane rural, rather the horsey set at play in the background, which seemed to suit suit the XC90’s place in the world, not really as a workhorse, but as a means of taking the kids off pony riding.
The Volvo XC90 R-Design
The Volvo Xc90 is Volvo’s effort at joining the then (and once again, now) fashionable luxury SUV club.
It’s now almost ten years since Volvo launched the XC90 and, despite many promises, the XC90 in 2011 is largely unchanged from the XC90 Volvo launched in 2002.
In many ways the XC90 has managed to survive for so long without major changes simply because it was so well conceived in the first place.
Although we didn’t necessarily know it at the time, the XC90 was pointing the way big SUVs were going, and its clever combination of car-like ride and handling, clever implementation of space – particularly with it moveable and changeable seven seat configuration – and an image that was in tune with the eco values to come, has endowed the XC90 with a longevity few could have expected in 2002.
The addition of the R-design option to the XC90 has given Volvo’s big SUV new life, with a sensible dose of ‘sporty’ add-ons – inside and out – which conspire to make the XC90 look far more contemporary than a ten your-old SUV should.
We spent a week with the diesel-engined Volvo XC-90 D5 R-Design in 2011 to review and road test.
This is a gallery of photos from that review. And if you like the look of the XC90 with its R-Design pack in this gallery of photos, take a look at out our XC90 review.
We came away more impressed than we’d expected too.