With the XC90 showing the way forward to a bright new future for Volvo and the S90 saloon about to take the premium saloon fight to BMW and Mercedes we reckon Volvo still have one more mountain to conquer. How to prevent leaks from happening.

The V70 is one of Sweden’s best selling cars, the trouble is its getting long in the tooth, the S90 saloon will finally help Volvo catch up. But every saloon is always followed by an estate variant.

Volvo would like you to wait for the official pictures to be released, in the past car companies could control what you see until the very last moment. Not in the age of the interweb and smartphone generation.

Trying to prevent someone from leaking a yet unseen new halo car, well those days are well and truly over. Word on the street is, more to the point what little we know is that the V90 is around 5.9 inches longer than its predecessor. That could be to accommodate new components for the hybrid system and to bring the V90 update to date with current crash test regulations.

So here it is the new Volvo V90, the exterior design which is derived from the concept estate Volvo first previewed at the 2014 Geneva Motorshow.

We do not have the designers language to express the visual design, so we always opt for, it looks swanky. Which means very swanky.

The V90 will feature Volvo’s latest generation of 4-cylinder petrol and diesel engines with the 384bhp T8 hybrid perhaps making its debut.