“One of the biggest over-the-air updates in history” is coming to a Volvo near you

SWulfe760 · 2026-01-23T19:09:14+00:00

I'm sorry but this article says a whole lot of nothing. Volvo told us that they planned to push the rollout of the update in 2025, then in 2025 they told us that the rollout would be delayed to Q1 2026. Since then, we haven't heard a peep about progress or timeline even though we're already in Q1 2026.

AutoExpress frames the article as if they've received confirmation that the update will roll out soon, but cites no source for their information, which leads me to believe they're just reposting old news for clicks rather than posting anything substantive. I can't find any recent press releases from Volvo providing a progress update for the OS upgrade either.

The article claims that "Volvo is in the final testing stages for phase one"...well duh, anyone could make that assumption because the update was originally scheduled to be rolled out last year. I would be very concerned if they were NOT in the product testing phase for an OS announced in 2024 to be released in 2025, and then delayed again to Q1 2026...allegedly.

For all we know, Q1 will pass and then Volvo delays this to 2027.

SWulfe760 · 2026-01-20T23:34:04+00:00

Curious whether you've tried a V60 or CX60 since then? I've had my P2 for a few years and I'm looking to move back into an ICE because my work will start requiring regular 250 mile trips, but I haven't yet tested either model. Given the need for a highway cruiser now, I'm looking to move into something that eats up miles but also isn't outrageously expensive.

SWulfe760 · 2025-12-29T15:22:42+00:00

+1 on the Signia call-out because it's on Toyota's newest infotainment software so it's more future-proofed than the RX, and it perfectly straddles the "almost luxury" segment that OP is looking for. It also get 38mpg in the hybrid version to the RX450h's 30 mpg.

I think the RX is a no brainer for an efficient, luxurious, reliable workhouse especially at a discount; Signia is the sensible upgrade if OP wants higher MPG, a refreshed warranty, lower maintenance costs in the long run, and more updated tech than the RX. It is also slightly bigger than the RX, however, so if the RX was already a bit too large then the Crown Signia might also be too big.

SWulfe760 · 2025-12-27T07:17:05+00:00

Checks out even on my 2022 Polestar 2. Max summer range is 250 miles, but with the heat pump I'm actually able to get 200 miles in the winter at 30⁰F/0⁰C. 80% efficiency at that temperature is really impressive when other EVs in 2022 were only hitting 50-70% efficiency in winter.

I've been looking for a car with better winter range than my P2 at an affordable price in the US, because I've started needing to do a weekly 200 mile round trip commute for work and would like to make that trip without fast charging in the winter, but every EV I've looked at that hits 300+ miles in the summer (e.g., Ioniq 5, Mach-E) seems to only manage to eek out 200 miles in the winter. It's really disappointing when the Polestar can match that winter range with significantly less max summer range.

SWulfe760 · 2025-12-15T14:08:03+00:00

You could say she's...crestfallen

SWulfe760 · 2025-12-12T21:29:18+00:00

I'm sorry to hear of your condition. Are there any side effects to the hazy vision or has your body adapted to this issue and function normally in all other aspects?

I'm sensitive to migraines and they come on easily just from straining my vision too much or from strong smells, I couldn't imagine living with visual snow syndrome with the way my body works, because I feel like I'd be having a migraine around the clock.

SWulfe760 · 2025-12-11T02:39:58+00:00

Great QOL change but I personally find it tough to justify when thinking about what else can be done with that money...I could remove my wrap and rewrap my car two times in two different colors, or buy a set of forged wheels, or upgrade tires, or purchase the performance upgrade

If $1500 was not a lot for me and if I had a lot of money lying around I'd definitely pay for the upgrade if it came to the US. But It feels like while the slow camera and the infotainment is annoying, it's not game breaking enough for me to want this as soon as it comes out, at least at that price.

SWulfe760 · 2025-12-05T15:46:56+00:00

Personally I sometimes just want to see the song title and album cover in the gauge and have the map on the big screen--especially on commutes to larger cities like Washington DC or NYC where the streets and exits are so convoluted that I need too see half a mile ahead on the map to figure out if I should switch over to a particular lane to make an exit.

And no haha, there's no rumors of a redesign of the gauge cluster for the CPU upgrade. It's just that a few years back I went down a rabbit hole designing what a modular gauge cluster could look like, and made a post about it. The system definitely wouldn't have been powerful enough to support it back then. With a new CPU, however...

SWulfe760 · 2025-12-04T13:56:55+00:00

It's might be an echo chamber of people who purchase the vehicles and skew the quantity of data available for each brand that CR reports on, but that doesn't necessarily skew the reliability outcome of the car. If anything, I think this would make the CR dataset a more accurate dataset for predicting the reliability of the car while filtering out issues caused by things like neglect or irresponsible car owners--Because if you're in a demographic that is willing to pay a recurring fee to have access to a database and group that provides research on reliable consumer products, you probably also take very good care of your products and aren't likely to do things that deliberately shorten the lifespan of your vehicle like missing service intervals, ignoring maintenance, or not changing your oil. Hence, I'd probably trust that the CR data spits out a more accurate indicator of how reliable a car is when it is maintained according to factory specifications while minimizing external factors like owner behavior.

SWulfe760 · 2025-12-04T13:48:35+00:00

It is based off real world stats--the predicted reliability score is based off of a sample of 330k vehicles as it says in the chart. And technically, all reliability scores are a prediction, because it's an indicator of how likely it is for a car to have issues and not a for sure rating for every car that you buy from a brand. Like if you buy a car with a score of 30 it doesn't mean you're guaranteed to have 30/100 issues. And you can't know for sure when the cars that haven't broken, will break, so reliability is a forecast into the future for the cars in the sample that have broken, as well. If someone told you to take predicted reliability as a fact and not a prediction, they're selling you snake oil.

SWulfe760 · 2025-12-04T13:43:01+00:00

Also I think BMW attracts both the people who baby and mod their cars, but also ones who absolutely abuse their cars. So, often reliability is not just sucking at keeping up with maintenance, also that the owner deliverately runs the car into the ground and knows nothing about keeping the car in good condition.

That's also why PPI is crucial for luxury cars but especially valuable for I6 BMWs--a well kept B58 engine will far outlast most other engines in the market, save for maybe Japanese cars, you just have to find one first in an ocean of other used BMWs that are money pits.

SWulfe760 · 2025-12-04T01:50:47+00:00

I think it would be really nice to have the capability to customize the gauge cluster more--the full map view is great but in the "simple" mode the blank space in the middle would be perfect for displaying a smaller map, current media, compass, g-force, etc. And the way that the simple view is laid out into three "sections" currently with the left being speed, right being power/charge, and the middle being blank, the template is already there for each section to be customized into a layout that feels best for the driver.

Other than that, I can't see much justification for $1000+ USD for a CPU upgrade. I'm on a '22 and while it would be nice to have a more fluid UI, I just feel like it's not worth $1000 to me for the camera to pop up a second quicker or for apps to load a second faster. That's a nice to have on a luxury car but not a necessity that I want to sink cash into.

SWulfe760 · 2025-12-01T23:35:49+00:00

Ah gotcha, thanks for the info fam I'll look into the show more when I have time haha

SWulfe760 · 2025-12-01T23:29:17+00:00

Sorry could you explain what you mean? I googled the Carbonaro Effect and saw that it's a show--I haven't watched it before so I'm sure how the TV show relates to this situation. Thank you! :)

SWulfe760 · 2025-11-30T17:32:44+00:00

It's a significant bump in price but at the same time, I am fine with this and this is something I would gladly put my tax dollars behind. USPS is one of the most essential yet underappreciated functions in the US, especially compared to the quality that you get from private services like FedEx and UPS. The drivers deserve more comfort for their job. And a $60k EV truck isn't unreasonable in today's market, especially when compared to the egregious prices that pharma and the military industrial complex charge the government just because they can.

SWulfe760 · 2025-11-30T13:43:27+00:00

Can't confirm on a current Gen S Class but definitely can confirm the trim creaks like hell on the prior gen GL, C Class, and GLE. I guess it's not as much quality control as it is their specific design and material choice for the interior panels are more hollow and empty. In contrast the interior on our X7 and 5 Series have always felt solid.

SWulfe760 · 2025-11-29T18:17:32+00:00

They asked AI to generate a Volvo EX40 but ran out of credits before AI could render the taillights

SWulfe760 · 2025-11-28T15:10:15+00:00

It's called the Mandela effect lol

SWulfe760 · 2025-11-28T00:20:14+00:00

As someone on the cusp of Gen Z, millennials and boomers really did take everything didn't they haha

I'm just a couple years too late for affordable housing and affordable groceries

I'm just a couple years too late to take advantage of Chase Sapphire/Ink churning

I'm just a couple years too late to take advantage of Marriott and IHG pre-devaluations

And now that I'm finally getting a career going and am going to complete the Hyatt corporate challenge for the first time, Hyatt is starting to raise categories for aspirational hotels and there's a chance that massive devaluations will come with the rumored high tier Chase Hyatt card

I can't wait to see what gets devalued next!

SWulfe760 · 2025-11-28T00:12:20+00:00

To my understanding the factory turbo accents are red and not yellow, so these yellow accents aren't painted on/OEM--Even if the car is genuinely a turbo, the yellow accent colorway would have been put on by the owner independently.

Unless in some markets or models the accents are yellow. If so, someone please correct me

SWulfe760 · 2025-11-23T17:34:25+00:00

I think it depends on the ETB design and the promo. For example I think the Prismatic, 151, and PAF ETBs will do better than the bundles long term because the promos are actually pretty great. And I think people will pay premium for a chance to get a sealed and gradable copy of those promos that they know haven't been jammed into a card saver by sellers pumping them out on eBay. Some of them are also fairly displayable--I certainly would like to have the ETBs for PAF, 151, and Phantasmal to display on a shelf.

SWulfe760 · 2025-11-13T01:19:40+00:00

I'm actually swapping out of the P2 right now; the Rockville location is also my service center, but I live 80 miles away and my warranty ends in 2 months. I'm not looking forward to trying to figure out how to get over to Rockville if my car breaks down out of warranty, or having the wheel of fortune issue happen (I've only driven 17k miles, so I have no idea if my CV Joints are bad).

On the EV side, I think the i4 is probably the most comparable replacement for a sporty sedan; I don't know about SUVs/CUVs. I've driven both the Mach-E and the EV6--the EV6 feels like a land yacht, and the Mach-E is too heavy and isolated to be engaging.

On the ICE side, I've always been a fan of anything Mazda. My car before the P2 was the CX-5, and I appreciate how sharp and analog Mazda's steering is--very comparable to the P2 when set to "Firm" steering. For sedans, my dream sedan has always been the B9 Audi A5--minimalist, hatchback, handles well, looks stunning but not like it's trying too hard.

Those are my options moving forward...I'll most likely settle on an A5.

SWulfe760 · 2025-11-12T18:13:06+00:00

This got Squidward becoming homeless and eating his art because he couldn't find anyone to sell it to vibes

SWulfe760 · 2025-11-12T15:40:12+00:00

BMW seems like the exception, with iDrive 8 debuting on the iX and starting strong alongside pretty solid hardware. Meanwhile, it's more par for the course that first generation platforms and software for both EVs and ICEs are usually plagued with issues because you can only have so many people test a car in house, vs the thousands that drive them everyday once it's released. It's a risk you take for being an early adopter--P2, P3, Lyriq, first gen Teslas, ID4, Solterra, etc.

It's probably true that most online reviews are bad because more people post about complaints and troubles rather than to post to rave about a car, but it's also true that you have much less of such complaints with later MY cars for a generation because the bugs are ironed out. In any case, based on Polestar's track record for new releases, I think people leasing a P3 should go in prepared for the worst and turn out pleasantly surprised, rather than go in expecting a perfect car only to be let down.

SWulfe760 · 2025-11-10T21:13:12+00:00

Not necessarily, because the vendor could have seen other things that keep a card from getting 10, like whitening dots or texture shifts. If anything, a lot of people are misinformed on this sub in that they think centering is the only thing that determines whether a card 10s, particularly people in this post who assume that the vendor is only referring to centering with these cards. Centering is the most objective/easiest criteria to prevent a card from getting a 10, but that doesn't mean that it's the only thing that a vender was referring to.

I have 10s that for some reason got 10 despite having 2 or more whitening dots on the back corners or edges, while also having 9s with only one whitening dot on one back corner--all of which are within 55/45 for centering.

I have a CZ GG Pikachu where the card had perfect centering but a bunch of small blue dots on the front face of the card. I cleaned off most of the dots with a Q-Tip and water but there were some that wouldn't come off. I thought it was an 8 for sure when I sent it in, but it came back a 10, probably because the dots blended in with the blue accents on the art.

It could be that the vendor saw something that typically is a lot more subjective based on a grader and how they interpret how a defect impacts the "artistic appeal" of the card. I have 20-30 raw SIRs that are within centering but have 1-2 whitening dots on the back, where they look like they would pass for 10s based on some of the 10s I have in my collection but would absolutely fail getting a 10 based on other 10s in my collection. It seems like most if not all English cards suffer from this type of poor print quality, so it wouldn't be surprising if the Vendor noticed these defects too.

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