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Anyone who does not know what life is in the saddle of a small -body motorcycle or scooter can expect a personality -shaping experience if you try it. At the bottom of the food chain,near the electric scooters,you want to cross a Danube bridge in the morning,but not on the sidewalk. The situation is not much better in a city small car, as what does not seem like a direct threat to other motorists is ignored or cleaned out of the way. The problem also exists. I know this as I spent a week with the huge Volvo XC90. The chosen ones face quite different problems than who seems to be a trampled ant on traffic around them, but in any case the car is the problem.
At least three days ago I had Volvo’s biggest SUV when I made a bad decision and started the XII. district to downtown. I don’t know why I thought that with a giant 5 meters long and more than 2.1 meters wide, the operation would be simple. Near the Zalai Road Elementary School, the left -hand rearview mirror was almost in touch with a car coming from the front, and finally we avoided each other as slowly as the earthworms. The majority of the surrounding streets are too tight for healthy progress, so thanks to the 360 degrees of surcharge camera system, I did not beat the side of the parked cars.This feature becomes available at low speeds or while parking, but for orientation, large windows and huge rearview mirrors also come in handy.
The Hungarian environment is not gracious anywhere with the drivers of the big SUVs, as the average lanes and parking spaces are scaled to cars 10-20 inches and a half meters shorter. Such a sober tool is the XC60, which is very similar to 90, just as array and restrained, not by chance the former is the most sought after Volvo type.
The garages of older dwellings are not suitable for storing cars like the largest Volvo,but the problem has not developed recently. The first series of the second generation XC90 is not an unusual sight either, as it was premiered in 2015. Traces of the 2024 model update are indicated by flatter headlights and a redrawn refrigerator mask from the outside, and it is not a bold tip that the Swedish-China brand has decided to keep the type because the global car market did not move fast enough towards the pure electric drive.
Photo: István Huszti / Telex
As a user of the XC90,it is worth considering the route and destination before pulling the door on us. The big car is a great responsibility, though on one of the safest tests in the category, Euro NCAP, in 2015, we have a good chance to get a serious accident with scratches. Everyone else can only trust our reflexes and the car’s electronic driving support systems. The European Commission has narrowed the maneuver’s room for maneuver and, in addition to the lane and departure warning system, has made the emergency brake assistant mandatory in all new and further manufactured types, as well as the speed limit that provided at least the sound.
The latter must be turned off from the government before each start, which is also a European requirement. The size on the center console is increased to 11.2 inch during the model update and a fifth of the pixel density. It also gives a nice, sharp picture, and the manufacturer regularly sends remote updates to brake infotainment obsolescence. Although you can access the most important features from the menu’s main screen and do not have to leave the map view of Google-based navigation, even if you want to switch music on the radio, unfortunately you can also control the climate on this interface because you have no physical buttons under the display. Some of its basic features have been separated on the lower image bar, but we do not swim without a glimpse. In addition, there is a large display on the new dashboard, which can be easily followed by a map of navigation and Van Head-up Display.
The principle is perfect, the committee can applaud, but the new Volvo is not the only one where the beeping due to imagined speeding is interrupted for a short period of time.the camera gets a speed limit of 30 in front of the Városmajor Road hospital, and in vain we left the crossing on Csaba Street, which in principle would dissolve it, even on the road, the thirty is required, even though fifty is allowed.The Bug also exists in the other way: on the twice-lane road at Budaörs Airport, it was demolished from a speed limit of 130, and even the 80s and 60 restrictions of the highway drops were trying to force us while rolling in the extreme lane.
Despite all the difficulties of size and technical imperfection, it is cool to stay on board the new Volvo XC90 for a long time, but you have to leave the city.The driver and passenger seat is traditionally a Volvo strength. They are amazingly comfortable even in the long run. Not only are the head and foot space huge not only in the front but also in the second row, and even the third row, basically driven on the luggage space, also fit in smaller adults.
The three -meter wheelbase may have a huge luggage compartment depending on how many seats we are using. When seven sit in plug-in XC, there are less than 300 liters of packs. so far, this is just a big shop. If five are sitting in the car, you can count on up to 668 liters, who views a premium SUV as a van, with a second-round pack of nearly two cubic meters into the Volvo’s stomach.
