Volvo V90: car review | Martin Love

Wellie wearers rejoice! The much-loved classic Volvo estate is back and it's bigger and cleverer than ever

Price: 34,955
Model: 2.0 D4 Momentum Auto
Top speed: 140mph
0-62mph: 8.5 seconds
MPG: 62.8
CO₂: 119g/km

Rather than coffee spoons, I have measured out my life in Volvo estates. So far I've owned four of the great slab-sided beasts. Sofa-soft with trunks the size of larders, they seemed more like rooms than vehicles. The first one in particular stole my heart. Fire-engine red with natty tweed seats, it was bursting with the kind of period details I called eccentric, but everyone else called failures: no fuel gauge, central locking which omitted one door, a nozzle which only sprayed the left side of the windscreen" So when Volvo announced it was producing an all-new estate, I started counting down the days until I could get behind the wheel of one. And now it's arrived"