Volvo V40, S40 - Top Gear 1995
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- Quentin Willson is here to check out Volvo's new line of cars in the smaller segment. The new Volvo V40 (Stationwagon) and Volvo S40 (Sedan). These cars sold very well in Europe back in the day.
The first generation (1995-2004) was introduced in 1995 with the S40 (S from saloon) and V40 (V from versatility, estate) cars.
The second generation (2004-2012) was released in 2004, and the estate variant's name changed to V50.
The range was replaced by the Volvo V40 five door hatchback in 2012.
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Over 20 years later they're still on every corner. A true volvo. Comfortable and sturdy. Sure loved my V40
It was reliable! Very often got me out of nasty Swedish weather aswell as covering a Sweden > Germany > Switzerland trip. But comfortable? Even with cruise control I would rather say it was loud and a bit bumpy
My S40 has 26 years (and astonishingly less than 130'000km!) and next month she carry us and our '88 Fendt caravan from Italy to northern France.
Only the paint seems to be a flaw, since the transparent layer is coming off...
They've disappeared in the UK, used to see a lot. Blame scrappage scheme and ULEZ
Where ?
Havent seen one in Norway in at least 10 years 😂
@@Thb202I've just bought one as a work horse. Will be trying my best to keep it on the roads. Is a phase 2. Registered in 2004 so just before the new mk2
Its 31 march 2022 and I own a 2001 T4 Black V40 manual it has done over 400.000 km on Gas and it is still going strong. Ok it shows age naturaly but it drives as steady as they come. No other brand in the History of the World has this down like Volvo does! As long as you treat them right they will keep going close to forever!
я владею s40 1996, только поталок отклеелся, электрика шалит. двигатель и коробка автомат шикарны! коробка автомат, масло не менял за 250000 ни единого раза!
Any vehicle can run as long you 'treat them right' the question is, how much effort for it to do so :)
I love volvo but toyota clearly do this too.
@@Cloud007. volvo hahe soul. toyota good mechanical
Thats good for the earth
Not buy new cars all the time
It's the year 2023. I just bought myself a S40 and I am loving it. Its obviously a second hand and has been through the rut for decades. With a little fixing I think it will be fine. I love driving it around. It is a very very smooth drive.
My parents bought a 2000 s40 it was their first brand new car they ever bought. I loved that car to death
Same here, my parents had a s40 sedan back in the early 2000’s and it was the first car I ever rode in, man I miss it
This was the car of my childhood. My parents had a silver 2000 s40 sedan back in the day, it was literally the first car I ever rode in since it was about 3 years older than me. Some of my earliest memories were in that car. Seeing that interior around 3:58 was almost like a flashback to taking road trips and going to school back in the 2000’s
1998 S40 1.8. Best car I've ever had. Superbly put together, no rattles, very comfortable.
I have the same and agree entirely. When my 2000 was written off by a lorry I got a 2002 just before they all vanished.
My dad had 2 volvo v40 when i was a kid. the 1.9 136hp variant and they never had any issues what so ever.
I only have fond memories of these cars, he later on bought a 2005 V70 D5 which lasted him 10 years which i am now driving since he went for a V90 d3.
Nothing but reliable cars these volvos are.
Bhought a new S40 1.8 in 1997,,,,never broke down on me, in 2020 bhought a used Volvo S40 T 2.0 lit, from 2003, tunned, still so happy with the model and it,s performance.
Tunned
Tuna sandwich ?
@@hondamanvtec2894 bro I prefer smell of tuna than smell of burned engine oil
@@hondamanvtec2894 Наверное он имел ввиду "тюнинг"
I had a 2.0 se , brought it in 1998 as a cheap run about , it never let me down and it started a long list of Volvos that I have now owned ,current car is a S 90 that I brought new
If you got the T4 model, especially as the estate, you had a real factory sleeper. Whats more you could tune them well beyond the stock 200hp output.... though for some reason they never became as popular as the Volvo T5, which was legendary in the 90's and early 00s. Even the police force loved them back then.
ive got a '99 s40 T4 pushing 270bhp and its a hell of car to drive, great mid-range power and great handling in the corners
@@dieter2889 I did 260 km/h with my all stock 1999 T4. I used up the entire odometer.
@@karolinska1601 😍
Still got my 2001 V40D. Still a pleasure to drive. Coming up to 168000 so it'll probably be banned from the road before it wears out.
I had a S40 a few years back, bought it for £550 and ran it for 3 years never spent a penny on it.
It had the GDI Mitsubishi engine in it and was so smooth, went well too.
Sold it for £500.....Nice!!.
Very nice!
Had a couple of V40s in the past, great cars a little underpowered. It was originally going to be the F40 but some Italian merk was already using that. Built in the old DAF factory in Limburg.
V40 was decent looking Volvo, only found out a few years ago you could get Petrol/LPG ones from Factory, other cars did as well, Honda Civic in some countries
Drove 320k with a V40 1.9D in 3 years and apart from maintenance I had no issues. Great fuel economy as well. My later V50 1.6D and V60 D5 had several major issues and with less milage each. exploding turbos, dead batteries, brakes that worn out fast...
What do you do for a living if you drive 300km a day?
I did a search on the registration plates and it seems both of these cars are scrapped
Aww, too bad!
Iv a 2004 deiseil. Goes like a rocket very reliable newer car drivers look and wonder what’s going by them on motorway s 😊keeps up with the lot of them
A big step up for Volvo, as the 440/460 said nothing more concisely than "failed aspiration"
Rockin a 01 s40, 100k coming up, still good to go.
I wonder what Volvo could’ve done with a cut-down 850 floor pan. Probably would’ve been an expensive and heavy proposition
2003. V40 2.0t still going...
The idiots in Holland mounted the engine wrong, the engine mounts didn’t actually matched the boltholes in the chassi so there was so much tension when the engine was nearly forced in and bolted on.
Because of this tensions, harsh vibration appeared.
This happened on the pre-series and the press cars, no one bothered to give the cars a proper final test….
How incompetent and embarrasing wasn’t that…?
A new car launch gone bad…
All the press cars vibrated like dildos..
Oof.. As a Dutchman myself.. Sorry! :P Nice information though, never knew about that!
haha they certainly did a big whoopsies
Haha! I like the ‘vibrates like dildos’
It's a crap steer, but with decent reliability and a good safety rating for its day the S40 deserves a look.
The ugly Mitsubishi CUV ad that played before this video makes me miss understated designs like the S40/V40.
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me in 2023 watching it, considering if my v40 with 202000 miles (and running well) should get de-rustificating treatment..Kinda would like to get a REAL VOLVO but on the other hand I like it very much, it's go a soul, and a push button start because ignition barrel failed one time too many. ( oh these Volvo faults, ignition barrel is a bastard, worst failure I had with it ).
it never became a big seller niether did the Carisma which is basically the same car the 2nd gen S40/V50 which is based on the 2nd gen Focus (I took my drivinglicence in a maroon V50 T5) and my instructer said that it's basically a Focus
It’s not
@@Leonards-leopard same platform as the MKII Focus
This version of the S40/V40 was sold in the USA but they sadly weren't very big sellers. Too small, too underpowered, and even a bit too unrefined for American tastes at the time, or at least of what was expected from a Volvo. I don't recall ever driving one but I've been a passenger in plenty of S40s...the dashboard felt cheap and tacky compared to other cars this size (BMW/Audi) and yet the Volvo wasn't much cheaper than its German competition. Keep in mind the 850/S70/V70 were selling like hotcakes; my guess is potential S40 buyers who walked into Volvo showrooms were swooned by the larger cars sharing the floor space.
These were sort of Mitsubishis, so like 300/400 series hardly comparable in quality etc.
@@miljororforsprakpartiet290 They weren’t priced like any Mitsubishis, not in the US at least.
@@RoadCone411 Probably not, but they were built upon Mitsubishi Carismas with the problems following (GDI etc)
That's because Americans are not being used to smaller stuff, everything has to be bigger for them 😅.
@@killerdinamo08 Yes to an extent, but it is more complicated than that. As explained, the S40 does not and did not have the image of its European competitors, yet it was priced nearly the same. Probably a bit too hopeful on Volvo's part. The 850/S70 was a more solid car and represented a better bargain compared to similar models from BMW and Audi. Even that car was small by today's standards - everything has grown in the past 25 years.
V 40 ottima auto......e del 1997.... Benzina 1800 cc...115 CV....16 valvole ...al momento 154000 km.... semplicemente perfetta.........in precedenza ho avuto VOLVO V70 TD.....ho fatto 393.000 km.......e ancora prima..... VOLVO 850 SW....2000 benzina....ho fatto 431000 km.....tutte ottime auto......
.da quando VOLVO è diventata cinese....FA SCHIFO..... Non comprerò MAI più VOLVO.....😢