Volvo XC90: car review | Martin Love

Volvo's large and luxurious SUV has been the queen of the school run for years, but the new XC90 is ready to go way beyond the playground

Price: 45,750
Top speed: 137mph
0-62mph: 7.4 seconds
MPG: 49.6

The date 1959 is stamped into the metal tongue of every seatbelt on the new Volvo XC90. It's the year Volvo invented the device and, in an act of almost unheard-of corporate altruism, left the patent open so other manufacturers could fit seatbelts in their cars. The Swedish firm should be in the running for a Nobel peace prize for the uncountable road deaths that single act has averted.