Volvo EX90 Excellence Has Four Seats, Special Paint, and a Fridge

• The Volvo EX90 Excellence is a four-seat ultra-luxury model of the electrical SUV.
• It is meant for the Chinese language market, and we do not anticipate it to come back to the U.S.
• The rear seats are particularly plush, with two luxurious thrones again there.

The Volvo EX90 is not the one electrical SUV to spawn an ultra-luxury variant with an extra-special rear seat—the Mercedes-Maybach EQS SUV additionally fills this function—however the EX90 Excellence places a distinctly Swedish contact on the thought. Revealed for the Chinese language market earlier this 12 months, the EX90 Excellence encompasses a plush inside and exterior to indicate it as a step above the usual mannequin.

To create the Excellence, Volvo took out the EX90’s third-row seat and swapped in a pair of luxurious thrones for the second row. They function a therapeutic massage perform, heating and cooling, and even a pair of sentimental pillows. Between the seats is a fridge that is completely sized for a bottle of Veuve Cliquot, because it have been. The inside additionally encompasses a particular wool-blend upholstery, grained wooden trim, and Orrefors crystal. You may spot the EX90 Excellence from the skin by its two-tone black and silver paint scheme and chunky 22-inch wheels.

Volvo has finished this earlier than, after all, with the XC90 Excellence that even was briefly bought within the U.S. We do not suppose Volvo has any plans to convey this EX90 Excellence to our shores, but when it did, we’re positive the corporate might discover a choose few well-to-do clients involved in its creature comforts.

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Regardless of being raised on a gentle food regimen of base-model Hondas and Toyotas—or maybe due to it—Joey Capparella nonetheless cultivated an obsession for the automotive trade all through his childhood in Nashville, Tennessee. He discovered a technique to write about vehicles for the varsity newspaper throughout his faculty years at Rice College, which finally led him to maneuver to Ann Arbor, Michigan, for his first skilled auto-writing gig at Vehicle Journal. He has been a part of the Automobile and Driver workforce since 2016 and now lives in New York Metropolis.