Save for a single-cab pickup with a straight-up bench seat, a accurate 3-seat vehicle is rare. There are fundamentally the McLaren F1, Ferrari 365P, and, now, this Volvo XC90 notion.
Yet because Volvo is owned by Chinese automaker Geely and the Shanghai auto show is positively dripping with funds, you can count on this ultra-lavish SUV to attain production, deleted front passenger seat and all. Developing on the XC90 Excellence—which already delivers Range Rover SVAutobiography–esque luxury with a deleted third row, central fridge, and crystal glasses—Volvo took things additional with the “Lounge Console.”
It offers unobstructed leg room to the right rear passenger, confident, but the Lounge Console is packed with trick mechanisms and secret compartments, and brings automotive transport as close to 1st-class air travel as significantly as anything we’ve seen. The rear-facing portion of the leg rest opens up to reveal a shoe cubby, although a lockable bin near the footwell secures wristwatches, fat stacks of American dollars, or other valuables. Then there’s the motorized tray table that springs up and splits in half to reveal a jewelry case and the greatest vanity mirror likely ever installed in a car.
Close the case, flip the table up 90 degrees, and a 17-inch LCD screen comes to life. There’s also zoned cabin lighting that will illuminate the Lounge Console’s user in a soft, flattering glow while maintaining the other passenger and the driver in the dark. Not even Maybach has ventured this far into astronomically unnecessary luxury.
It tends to make some sense, of course. Limo drivers always push the front passenger seat all the way forward and makers of luxury vehicles often install redundant controls that allow the driver or the correct rear-seat passenger to do the very same. And how uncouth is it to place your feet on the back of an additional seat when there could be none at all? We don’t know if a production version would make it out of China, but we’d expect that country’s wealthy—who continue to get wealthier—will have to pay a fairly penny to be pampered like this. All we ask is for a ride, OK, Volvo?
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Volvo’s Lounge Console Is the Ultimate in Chauffeured Pampering
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