Two words.....Owners Manual....which one can easily download from Volvo. Before I bought my 2019 XC60 T6 Inscription, I downloaded the manual to check out the features of the car to make sure it had the features I wanted.

And any decent sales person should be able to answer a question about ambient lighting and demonstrate how it works.

You actually have quite a bit of control over the ambient lighting. You can change the color, intensity, etc. manually via the center console or you can let the car choose the color for you based on the temperature inside the vehicle.

BTW, the Swedes (or their Chinese owners?) are getting a little Germanic in their control systems. An example...you can set the driver seat and steering wheel heat to come on automatically when you start the car....and you can program them to come on in one of three settings. But here’s the Germanic “we know what’s best for you” control freak approach.....they only come on automatically if the algorithm in the control system decides that the ambient temperature is cold enough to warrant turning those function on automatically. So if your car is parked in a warmish garage, the steering wheel and seat heating will not go on automatically (not that it’s difficult to turn them on yourself) but if it’s sitting outside in the cold weather, then the car believes it’s cold enough and the automatic function works. And you can’t control at what point it decides it’s cold enough to warrant the auto function. And that’s all buried in one sentence in the owners manual under the auto seat heat function.

i has a 1991 BMW 750iL (brilliant road trip car) that had similar control freak issues with its heating functions. The German engineers decided what was best for you, and that was all there was too it. They knew best and you were not to question it!

as an engineer, I totally understand that approach. As an owner of the vehicle, I’d like to be the control freak, not the engineer/designer of the system that is locked down. I don’t know....maybe they are trying to make things idiot proof?

in any event, my point here is that the Owners Manual is worth reading on any new vehicle....in my opinion anyway. And I know what’s best for you! (LOL!!).

Happy Thanksgiving one and all.

https://volvo.custhelp.com/app/manua...019/model/XC60