Volvo's haven't had good suspension tooling since I got my driver's license. Apparently the air suspension helps things immensely though in the XC90.

 

Last months C&D had a comparo with XC90, Q7, RR Sport and X5. Only the Q7 (57 points) scored better than the Volvo (56 points) for Ride and Handling. Among these SUV's it did pretty well.

 

Right...and that was an air-suspension equipped XC90. If you dig up any review of the XC90 without it they've complained about the ride. Also in that review the mpg's weren't impressive.

The XC90 does a lot of things good, that's for sure. I doubt the things we're complaning about will be deal breakers for perspective buyers given the rest of the package.

 

The XC90 Excellence will be over US$100k. It is a pretty impressive luxury SUV.

 

bought mine yesterday......the XC90 is a awesome SUV!!

 

Mid-size luxury SUV segment has never been so weak as it is today. I guess the segment has peaked five to ten years ago and that's about it. X5 and RRS are junk and GLE and Q7 are close to junk as well, technology part saves them a bit. New XC90 and RX have their chance today more than ever to properly compete against other tier one luxury SUV badges. Spread between let's sat RX and X5 has never been this marginal. Back in the day X5 and RX could not be compared spec wise except the size maybe but today its a whole different story.

And that C&D article is like a throwback into 2005. They still talk about some meaningless 0-60 times and lateral G while driving SUVs Times have changed but C&D and premium badge SUVs haven't I guess.

 

I don't agree. I think the current X5 is excellent when spec'ed properly. The Range Rover Sport is also excellent, as is the new Q7.

 

How are they junk?

 

My thought too.

 

Let us know how the reliability is. What trim level is yours?

 

uh, say what?

 

Vovlo XC90 AWD T5 Momentum with $2500 add-on options

Just got the SUV for 3 days

Initial impression:
-Awesome technology
-More spacious than RX
-Ride comfort is little stiffer than RX, but feel more confidence on highway & turn.

 

big congrats. awesome vehicle. is it pretty quiet on the road?

 

Do not agree with this at all. 10 years ago a Range Rover Sport was neither Range Rover (more Discovery/LR3) nor Sport. Intensive light weighting and powertrain upgrades and infotainment and build and your aforementioned technology upgrades have made nearly all of the vehicles in the segment light years ahead of where they were. I think the ML/GLE is one of the oldest right now.