yes. They're not going to be recouping the eco cost of manufacture on a six seater with an average of two people in it.

What they've managed to make there is an extremely expensive, wildly impractical occasional use vehicle.

Which in group tests will be embarrassed by direct competitor luxury segment SUVs, and anyone with more sense than money would buy an estate, or something that seats 9 on the same wheelbase length. I could make a better case for a VW Sambabus

@breadandcircuses

Those 6-seaters are the highest margin products. That's why they want everyone in one. It's about the dollars and not making the world a better place.

@lednabwm @breadandcircuses

this vehicle just looks like a way of flaunting wealth and claiming territory (by its sheer size), whilst Volvo enshittify their existing fleet (they even sent a duff one to a motoring journalist, in fact it never got to him as it broke down before he even had a chance to drive it)

https://www.autoexpress.co.uk/volvo/361296/im-baffled-how-brand-new-ps84k-volvo-xc90-can-fail-so-spectacularly

“I’m baffled as to how a brand-new £84k Volvo XC90 can fail so spectacularly”

Mike Rutherford says it's bad that a new and expensive XC90 died at the roadside, but even worse that Volvo can't explain why

^{Mike Rutherford (AutoExpress)}

@vfrmedia @breadandcircuses

I thought the Chinese purchased Volvo....

@RaffKarva @problembaer @lednabwm @breadandcircuses

I don't even think British Leyland managed to screw up this badly (ironically the reason cops and farmers round here liked Volvos so much is that they were once generally reliable and used space efficiently inside, making them ideal for working vehicles..)