Video: 2016 Volvo V90 D5 review

3 June 2016
Review

The new Volvo V90 estate has all the right ingredients to be a class-leading offering, but does that promising recipe translate into a tasty finished product?

Autocar’s Matt Prior heads out into the Spanish countryside behind the wheel of a top-spec V90 D5 to find out.

The car he’s driving uses a turbocharged four-cylinder diesel engine and is priced at £44,000. This makes it a key rival for the likes of the BMW 5 Series 525d Touring in Luxury spec.

Will the Swedish car prevail?

Matt Prior

Matt Prior
Title: Editor-at-large

Matt is Autocar’s lead features writer and presenter, is the main face of Autocar’s YouTube channel, presents the My Week In Cars podcast and has written his weekly column, Tester’s Notes, since 2013.

Matt is an automotive engineer who has been writing and talking about cars since 1997. He joined Autocar in 2005 as deputy road test editor, prior to which he was road test editor and world rally editor for Channel 4’s automotive website, 4Car. 

Into all things engineering and automotive from any era, Matt is as comfortable regularly contributing to sibling titles Move Electric and Classic & Sports Car as he is writing for Autocar. He has a racing licence, and some malfunctioning classic cars and motorbikes. 

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david RS 4 June 2016

"four-cylinder diesel engine

"four-cylinder diesel engine and is priced at £44,000"
Mad words...
Tuffty 4 June 2016

Boring!

I rather suspect that Matt has listened to recent comments on the other staffers' reviews in which his own reviews are described as boring. I quite like them though, and the addition of a p**s-taking format towards the end - complete with elevator music - has only served to improve them. Nice car but I won't buy a 4-pot again.