We drove Volvo's most-advanced luxury SUV ever from LA to San Francisco on one tank of gas

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Volvo XC90

Bryan Logan/Business Insider

A quiet, unassuming kind of luxury. The XC90 looks decidedly upmarket without any excess chrome or plastic.

The Volvo XC90, one of the Swedish carmaker's best-selling models of all time, has been completely redesigned.

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This is Volvo's top-line SUV and this new example shows that Volvo is trying to prove itself as a modern contender in an evolving luxury car market. Volvo tossed Business Insider the keys to the 2016 XC90 so we could give this all-wheel-drive, supercharged and turbocharged Swede a proper workout.

Naturally, we started our week-long stint with a road trip.

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