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"This is the inside of the new Volvo XC90. In case it&amp;#039;s not immediately apparent, as a three-row SUV this is Volvo&amp;#039;s most important new product in the US. They&amp;#039;ve also gotten rid of pretty much every interior button. It&amp;#039;s bold, but it&amp;#039;s clever. The clever comes courtesy of Apple CarPlay and a giant portrait-style touchscreen\u2014out of this combination comes the promise of touchscreen menu hierarchies that actually make a lick of sense and can be navigated without a 400-page user manual. In essence, user-friendly. That&amp;#039;s good. SPIED: Volvo XC90 spied for the first time Will the buttons be missed? Maybe not. Volvo is putting a D-pad on the steering wheel, a heads-up display in the dash, and voice control thanks to Apple CarPlay and Siri, giving drivers several ways to interact with the system. And if you&amp;#039;ve used Siri before, you know that the natural language recognition is light years ahead of the specific command-based systems in most infotainment systems. It also needs to be said that buttons or no, the new interior design is beautiful. It&amp;#039;s clean and uncluttered, as you&amp;#039;d expect. But it&amp;#039;s also really nice: the naturally-textured wood trim, the elegant Orrefors crystal gearshift, the little knurled drive mode selector. Details matter, and Volvo has to get them right for the XC90 to compete.  SPY PHOTOS: Volvo XC90 Spy Shots Outside of technology, the XC90 is the first vehicle in the lineup to use the new Scalable Product Architecture, a chassis family that incorporates more high-strength steel and a number of active safety systems. That means a suite of sensors\u2014cameras, radar, and car-to-car information sharing\u2014that could allow a new level of collision avoidance. And convenience features like traffic avoidance and finding open parking spots. More specifically for the XC90, the SPA means the third row is now almost habitable. Adults up to 5&amp;#039;7&amp;quot;, it is claimed, can fit back there without permanent injury. Contort yourself to squeeze back there at your own risk. Speaking of injury, Volvo is going on record as saying that by 2020, they hope no one will be killed or seriously injured in a new Volvo. The company has never lost its safety focus, even after design became its modus operandi, but this is an unprecedented goal\u2014and one that might be predicated on autonomous cars. Incidentally, the electronic systems in the XC90&amp;#039;s SPA structure were designed with future autonomous capabilities in mind.      THE ACCIDENTAL TRACK WAGON: 2014 Volvo V60 Polestar      SEE THIS: This ad for a Volvo 245GL is surreal and hilarious "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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