Volvo XC90 long-term test REVIEW: a popular holiday companion

The Volvo XC90 has been moving a lot, again, the Alps, to the former RAF Alconbury for upcoming features and for Ikea, all with others. And to work and back, and work, and back, with me. This is the default choice for anyone who has a lot of miles to do.

For the inhabitants of her ski holiday, it was unbelievably accommodating. They liked the same things I did: the ease and comfort of driving, some trunk space even with seven seats in place and able to push a different seat up or down to squeeze in a long load.

But, like me, they found a strange weakness. For example, if you need to pop gearbox XC90 into park and opened the seat belt and opened the door - I often need to do to open the gate, but my colleagues that are required in a car park of France - then the car decided that you're done your journey on and off, even though you really just want to get out the car for less than 10 seconds, to achieve the payment barrier, or bin, or just to see where you've parked. So should you do restart the whole process, which, if Volvo can not 'make sense' lock without a key, as is often the case, a proper old nuisance.

Sometimes Land Rover and Jaguar do this, too. Let me decide when the trip is over, okay?

Luggage cover, meanwhile, include things as they should be in the boot, assuming you angle the trailing edge into the groove of security. But do not quite find it true, as is likely, and it will be healthy again open up a few seconds later - perhaps after you close the boot and walked away - and the trailing edge is so widespread that poison the rearmost seat belt as it goes.

Despite the odd niggle, though, mileage up to more than 15,000 since the fundamentals of this car is incredible. The service is due at 18,000 miles, at which point the front tires will also want to change, which I wish I would reach before Volvo wants the car back in. It wants us to try six months in the model T8, after spending six this D5. More than that, I guessed, next time.

Troubleshooting sat-nav

I have found a way to cancel the destination on the sat-nav (or, more precisely, someone in Volvo told me).

Previously I only find the 'pause', but encourages the destination at the top of the screen and provides the option to delete the schedule. map, incidentally, is one of the most obvious and easiest to scroll around each car sat-nav system.

The price of £ 45 750; Price as tested £ 51 770 Error 36.1mpg economy niggles Electronic Load photo Last seen 5/11/16

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