Again and again
 

For all of you proud owners;
http://autos.jdpower.com/content/blo...lus-rating.htm

The videos are quite amazing/stomach churning. Many cars fare far worse than the 90 in the small overlap test and fold up with horrific consequences for the driver and some occupants.

http://youtu.be/lPL0Vi_8fiI

In contrast check out the Kia Soul. Not in the same class as the 90 obviously, but very sobering.

Love my 90.

Cheers
Paul

That is the very reason I drive a car I can barely afford; I look upon it as a type of life insurance.

Although as the design of the XC90 has been almost unchanged since inception, you could run an older car and have the same/equivalent life unsurance at a more affordable cost....

Cheers,
Paul

That is a very similar crash that my sister and their family experienced recently in a BMW 1 series. The other vehicle, a Kia Sedona, was on the wrong side of the road and they hit at almost the same angle. Ripped of the NSF suspension and caved in both passengers doors. A few bruises from the seat belt pre-tensioners but they all came away ok.
I told her to get a 90 next. As I like to put it, more air bags in a 90 than funbags in a porn mag!

Very sobering thought..

My Sis has virtually given up looking for a decent XC90 (as I refuse to sell her ours :) ) so she's been looking at others, amongst them, the Golf Plus....

Have just whatsapped her the link to this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-GTTdnpGNg

Mike

I do not think that this is a fair test,
XC90 should run against a Touareg, and a
Golf against an S40, same size vehicles.
In both cases the swedes will score better
Eventually.

I think its ment to be a more realistic real world test as you can't dictate who you crash with. Having pulled people out of a crash simillar to this where the cars were a Renault modus and a skoda octavia. I would rather have a safer car than the flashy one as the doors on the modus opened but they wouldn't on the skoda which was a newer and much bigger car.

Fully agree,
However, and as you all know that the front shock absorbing bumpers on an XC90 is designed at a standard car height, in order not to inflict major damage to non SUVs.
Very smart indeed.

I noticed whilst viewing the XC90 clip - there was a clip of the new Range Rover too. I'm sure the overlap looked about the same - but you can clearly see that the Volvo deflects the impact sideways away from the passenger compartment and the car continues forward.
The Range Rover although absorbs the impact - but it pretty much stops on the spot and takes the full energy into the vehicle lifting the rear wheels off the ground...
Don't get me wrong - I luurrve Range Rovers - but I don't think I'd want to get hit by one !!
I think whatever I was in I'd stand a better chance being hit by the XC because of its energy management.
God forbid - I never have to find out :-)