Maybe....but lots of benefits from doing it this way. No physical mechanism moving to fail, liquid can't be spilled into the buttons, smaller space requirements means more freedom to locate them, cheaper to build and cheaper to repair, programmability for software functionality variations since no physical movement. I don't think it's because Volvo got "lazy".Not having individual physical controls for all 4 electric windows & locks would make me feel as if I'd been short-changed.
Are you talking about switch placement or the type of switches?Not lazy; but definitely cheap. I don’t know why they a doing this. It has been tried many, many times over the years by various manufacturers and the public always hates it. And on a luxury brand? No. Just say no.
Guess I could care less. I mean, I don't even roll down my window once a week.Placement in the center console instead of on each door panel.
Ummmm no. It has been made clear that Sweden has full control over the company. It’s really getting tiresome to keep seeing these comments about “China” as nothing but negative. China single-handedly gave Volvo 11 billion dollars to build the SPA platform and look at the success. Why on earth does the location have anything to do with how the company designs cars? It doesn’t. Just like the quality of cars build in Chine are not only equal but higher because of newer technology.So everything thinked and developed in China?
That explains EX90 interiors
Bad, sad.
as someone familiar with Asian culture, for the life of me I can not see anything but Swedish design It like people are trying to create a controversy. Volvos backlit wood is elegant, subtle and understated. Literally interior lighting is an area Volvo was lacking in when compared to EVERY other competitor. It’s mind blowing to me to think someone would believe this was due to Chinese influence. The EX90 is the most Swedish car interior I think Volvo has ever made. Are people really that ignorant about Swedish design?!" When there is something about the EX90's interior that looks Chinese to me (i.e. designed for Chinese customers in mind), then it's the backlit wood. It's totally unnecessary, and I wonder if Volvo designers had invented this gadget if the EX90 wasn't meant to be sold in China.
Because some of us don’t like to sit in the pitch black. The wood lighting serves a real purpose that many of us have come to appreciate and find extremely useful. Customers do expect it….because it’s a very popular feature almost every luxury car owner now has.Why ambient lighting though? It's just fancy, serves no purpose (as opposite to real overhead reading lamps). Isn't Scandinavian design the art of leaving things away and creating beauty through the material itself and the way it is crafted? In this regard, ambient lighting is per se not really scandinavian. It's rather something that some people expect because the competition has it.
