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00:00It's smooth, it's silent, it's not particularly quick, 0-60 will take you 7 and a half seconds.
00:18Hey, that's plenty quick for the mission, right?
00:21It's all about keeping the person in the back comfortable.
00:24So quiet, easy acceleration, yeah, that'll do the trick.
00:31I grew up in minivans.
00:33I have a soft spot for minivans.
00:35I love them.
00:36They are so practical.
00:37They do so many things that SUVs struggle to do.
00:41I wish we had minivans as cool as this Volvo EM90 in the U.S.
00:47This is a six-figure minivan, but bear with me here.
00:51You have to see the back seat.
00:53I flew from Detroit to China in economy class, and I keep looking at those seats getting
00:58angrier and angrier and angrier that I had to do that rather than sit in something as
01:04posh and comfortable as those seats.
01:06They are literally, okay, not literally, but they look like they were lifted out of a business
01:12class section of an airplane.
01:14Nice armrests, fold-out tray tables, the seat reclines, the footrest comes out, super comfortable,
01:20massaging, heated, cool.
01:22I wish I had grown up in a minivan like this.
01:25That's the childhood I deserve.
01:27Let's roller around the figure eight course.
01:30A little bit of rotation under power at the exit there.
01:34Really nicely poised.
01:37This thing is shockingly planted and poised.
01:40I mean, those minivans I grew up with, I took them around corners with tires squealing like
01:45this, and they never felt this poised or planted.
01:47You're always just fighting understeer, dealing with the understeer.
01:50This thing is really nicely balanced.
01:53Phenomenal Volvo, incredible.
01:55I don't know how you can make a market for this in the US, but figure out a way.
01:59All those people being chauffeured in Rolls Royces and Bentleys should really think about
02:04a minivan.
02:05This is sweet.
02:06I've been driving a lot of electric sedans around this figure eight course.
02:10Things that probably should be considered sports sedans or want to be considered sports
02:14sedans.
02:15And yeah, I'm going a bit quicker in those, but they can't handle the braking.
02:19They keep overheating the brakes in everything we're doing.
02:22And yet this giant Volvo is just kind of happily humming around here.
02:27No issues with the brakes, no warnings, pedals not getting soft and spooky.
02:31We're just having a good time here.
02:33Legacy automakers long ago figured out how to make the brakes handle the heat of stopping
02:37their vehicles.
02:38Who's ever done that in a minivan before?
02:42I'm sure some kid has, but they probably ended in a ditch.
02:46All right.
02:47I mean, I'd like to stay out here all day and then I'd like to figure out a way to fly
02:51this back to the U.S. and make this my personal vehicle.
02:54I would love to see minivans make a comeback.
02:57Not just like exist.
02:58They do exist, but make a cultural comeback.
03:01Make minivans cool again.
03:03This is what would do that.
03:05This Volvo EM90 could make minivans cool again like they were in the 1980s and early 90s.