RIDING HIGH INTO THE SUNSET; Even as we wave goodbye, XC90 remains the subject of high-minded debate.(News)(Volvo XC90)

Byline: BOB GRITZINGER At long last, our belated year in our long-term Volvo XC90 came to an end in June, still provoking the same stern debate (sportwagon vs. sport/ute) that has been raging since we took delivery of our big, silvery-green Swedish machine more than a year ago. We say "belated'' because our tour of XC90 duty was scheduled to begin some six months earlier, but our model went down with the ship along with more than 350 other XC90s in a cargo vessel collision in the English Channel in December 2002.

Our order went back on the pile for the first-ever ...

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