Volvo V90 wagon leaked (again)

Images of the all-new Volvo V90 have been leaked online overnight ahead of its official unveiling at the Geneva motor show.

Volvo had hoped to reveal its long-awaited replacement for its big wagon next week (on February 18) but now, following the images surfaced on Dutch car blog Autoweek.nl, there’s little need.

The big Volvo wagon had originally been caught undisguised in a Swedish workshop earlier this year, but these images give us our clearest glimpse yet of how the production version of the V90 will look.

Like the S90 sedan revealed at the Detroit motor show last month, the V90 wagon is based on the same SPA (Scalable Product Architecture) that also underpins the big XC90 SUV.

Sharing a range of 2.0-litre diesel and turbocharged petrol engines, the V90 line-up will be spearheaded by a 300kW T8 Twin Engine plug-in hybrid powertrain.

Later on, an efficient turbocharged 1.5-litre hybrid petrol drivetrain will also join the V90 line-up.

Inspired by the XC90, the V90’s interior is identical to the S90 sedan’s and is a clean, uncluttered Scandinavian design that features a huge portrait-mounted infotainment system. Said to harness cloud-based apps and services, the new system will be the firm’s most advanced yet.

Another first for its class, which includes the BMW 5 Series and Mercedes E-Class, is new semi-autonomous tech that incorporates Pilot Assist – a cruise control – that delivers gentle steering inputs to keep within its lane markings on a highway up to speeds of 130km/h.

Other new tech described as being a world first is a new feature added to City Safety that detects large animals such as elk, horses or moose at night or during the daytime. If detected, the emergency braking will bring the car to a halt safely.

Volvo says it’s made more than six million wagons since the original Duett model went on sale back in 1953.