The result was a track-friendly performance wagon with Porsche DNA and ... a standard 850 to the untrained eye – this Volvo 850 was the perfect sleeper car. The only giveaways really were ...

I must have been around Bar Mitzvah age when I was in the back of my parents' car on the highway as we passed a truck full of Volvo 850 T-5R wagons – half of them in black, half in banana yellow.

Volvo's wagons have a long history of being excellent for more than just comfort and space - there are a number of sleeper wagons in its build up to what we know now. The V90 CC isn't one of these ...