The Volvo XC60 has been up to date with a brand new glance and upgraded inside in a bid to care for the enchantment of the logo’s best-selling fashion.

Visual adjustments come with a brand new grille very similar to that suited to the new XC90 in addition to darker rear lighting. There can also be new wheel designs, even though UK specs haven’t begun to be showed.

Inside, the automobile will get a bigger, 11.2in infotainment touchscreen this is now increased above the dashboard’s floor.

It runs by way of a extra robust chip from American company Qualcomm, which is claimed to make the machine two times as fast to answer inputs as prior to. It additionally brings crisper graphics, in keeping with Volvo.

The new XC60 is claimed to get extra sumptuous fabrics inside of, with upholstery choices together with a mix of Nordico artificial leather-based and herringbone-pattern material. Cabin refinement is claimed to be advanced too.

Powertrains are unchanged, which means there’s a collection of a 248bhp delicate hybrid or two plug-in hybrids with outputs of 345bhp and 449bhp.

Cars with coil-sprung suspension will obtain new dampers meant to melt their trip, even though the air suspension set-up stays unchanged.

Prices are set to be showed subsequent month however are anticipated to upward thrust fairly when compared with the outgoing model of the XC60, which is priced from £46,115. Deliveries will start within the 3rd quarter, between July and the tip of September.

That the petrol-powered XC60 has gained an replace so as regards to the discharge of its electrical counterpart, the EX60 (due subsequent yr), suggests it is going to stay on sale for the foreseeable long run.

Indeed, Volvo boss Jim Rowan has up to now instructed that the bigger XC90 may stay on sale into the following decade, relying on call for for the fashion relative to its EX90 sibling.

“We might be in a position to move totally electrical this decade, but when the marketplace infrastructure and buyer acceptance isn’t somewhat there, we will permit that to take a couple of extra years,” he stated. “The transition to electrification is probably not linear. Customers and markets are shifting at other speeds, and subsequently we will be able to proceed to spend money on our hybrids in order that anywhere you might be to your adventure to electrical riding, you’ll have a Volvo to fit your wishes and your eventualities.”