@@user-jz4sy2wn2c Fr man ,get this. Ordered some car parts from Bulgaria,I'm in upstate NY. They got to NYC(2hr drive ) and went to Jersey(normal),and I figured after that it would come north. Nope ,it's in Detroit right now. 😂😂
Volvo 200s actually have a fairly decent drag coefficient of about 0.34 with a roughly 20 sqft drag area. Appearance has surprisingly little to do with aerodynamics.
I don't care about speed. The Volvo 240 saved my life when my dad and I hit black ice on the highway spun out into the grass on the side and flip led multiple times. We were both only shaken.
Yeah man been on the highway with T5 Transporter 1.9 TDI often, has got 86 or 84HP, it does 0-100kph in around 26 seconds... That thing is way slower than this. But it's awesome 😂😂
@@ferrari458960 This car is not 240, but you can totally have some winter skidding with volvo. Some older volvos does not have any safety equipment, so its all driver skill.
@@Dave_Kerman My garage buddy bought an ”Rust free” 740 couple months ago with only 280k Km and it has not seen a day on the road after, because we had to weld almost the whole body because of rust. Volvo didnt rust proof any of their cars back then
This is just like my 85 VW diesel manual, takes about three miles to get to 60 on the speedo which is around 52-54 depending on how frisky it feels. Speedo will climb to 85 even tho the car tops out at 75mph after having your foot on the floor for about half the length of the county as your use all 52 hamster purrs the car has, and you might as just give up if you encounter even the slightest incline. Favorite daily driver ever tho, first manual daily and first 'foreign', love the thing to death and the reactions it gets as I slowly meander by and it make tractor noises and rolls coal is hilarious
97 Seat Ibiza 1.0 44hp. It couldn't pull the knickers off a dead hooer. It was a Porsche designed engine, nonetheless. Designed to outlive petrol itself.
@@razoomist You have a bad check vacuum check valve for the HVAC system. When you floor it, you lose vacuum and the vents default to defrost. When you let off the throttle, vacuum comes back and it switches to whatever vent you have selected. Super easy fix. $5 part and about 30 seconds to replace it.
I remember a Suzuki Jimny that top out at 45 km/h, the speedo itself only go to 50. The car was too slow for city driving, and already gasping for air for residential speeds.
@@r.a.6459 That sounds really false, even the very first LJ10 Jimny had top speed of 75 kmh and 25 hp from 359cc motor. Modern 8hp cars do 45 just fine.
My family had a Scout with a Nissan six-cylinder diesel engine that took most of an afternoon to reach 70 mph. And, maintaining that speed was tiresome. Also, a Mercedes 220D with a four-cylinder, 60-hp diesel that was just as slow. An 18-wheeler could easily out-accelerate both of them. How embarrassing.
Was it the inline 6 that was a diesel version of the 6 in the 280z? Those were actually (and still are) highly sought after cause guys would take that block and mate it to a gas head and boost it to the moon. Being that it was a diesel block, it could take insane amounts of boost.
How on earth would one even show his face in public driving something like that. Driving something shiny and new that I can’t afford, to impress people I don’t even know…..now that is where it’s at!
There are slower cars, like Mercedes 200D. W123 chassis one had only 55hp and the official 0-62 was 31 seconds. I've also seen a W124 200D with 2 million km on the odometer reach 100kmh in 90 seconds.
holy shit, i immediately knew it was a volvo because my parents had one (an 80s diesel model, i dunno which one) when i was born and i instantly recognized the steering wheel and dash. when they bought it they picked it up from a dealership in florida and drove it all the way to virginia on a single tank of gas.
First vehicle I ever owned was a 2.2L s-10. I installed a CAI, Flowmaster 40s, cowl hood and Cragar wheels. And the damn thing probably took 25 seconds to run a quarter mile 🤣.
When I was in high school I bought a brand new 2000 Ranger with the 2.5L I4 with a 5 speed and fiberglass stepside bed. I loved getting beside s10's at red lights. My buddy that had a 2001 S10 wanted to swap after driving mine. The 2.5L was only used in 2000 and maybe 01 but I believe it was just a one year thing. My uncle worked at Ford Dealership back then and told me it was just a Mazda engine Ford waa experimenting with. He said they were more reliable and not making them as much in service parts and repair. Loved that little truck. Wish I would have kept it.
IIRC they were around 16s to 60 stock. Some minor upgrades (if you can shift that poor little Nv1500 5 speed quickly enough) will get you up to 60 in about 7s and doing the 1/4 quicker than the original 0-60 time though. czcams.com/video/tG4EaOHgB38/video.html The ext cab has a 4:10 rear gear too, so if you have a reg cab that will need to be swapped out. The header was the hardest thing to do; the rest is pretty easy work.
@chadmiller2224 Wrong across the board. First the 2.5 was Fords twin plug design bored from the 2.3 ohc twin plug HP went from 112 -119 lol. Not really much of an improvement Torque went from 135 -146. Those were from 1998-01 The replacement engine for those Ford manufacturered 4cly was Mazda 2.3 Dohc from the Mazda 3 that put out 143 hp and 154 lb ft of torque. From 2002-2011. The Mazda B2300 B2500and Ranger 2.3-2.5 from 1993-2001 was a Ford Engine manufactured right in NJ. So either you didn't listen to your uncle or like every idiot that works at a car dealership knows nothing about the products they support ,service or sell. Also the the S10s with 2.2 had 120 HP and 140 lb of torque also were geared much closer than those 4 Cyl 2.3and 2.5 Ford Rangers. Having owned one myself. You definitely didn't blow the doors off of any S10 that much I know for a fact.
I've got a P71, I absolutely love it, but its not fast. It doesn't need to be fast to be super fun to drive, but people that act like these are race cars are delusional.
This was my mom's car when I was a child and its poor acceleration on the freeway was the impetus to my dad buying her an LS400. When he was initially vehicle shopping for the Volvo back in '87, had he purchased a 740 rather than the 240, probably wouldn't have needed to buy the LS400 8 years later.
That's the thing though.. A 0-60 of 15-17s is really slow and if you're going uphill, it's impossibly long. If she had a car that did 0-60 in 10s, that would've been more than sufficient which I believe the 740 non turbo did though I'm not sure. @@martz0r
The 91 ls400 was my first car when i turned 16 i bought with my own money $500 bucks in 2016…i drove it for 4 years i miss that car so much but i bought a 97 chevy 1500 to replace it for 900 bucks before trucks randomly skyrocketed in price and that truck has been amazing also. Craziest part is these all were from craigslist, not even family members
Is this a Volvo 240? I learned to drive in one, 1985 4-door car with 2.3L 4-cylinder powerplant. So, something like a 3000+ pound car with (I think) 110 or 115 HP or something like that. Thing is, it had a manual transmission (4-speed stick with pushbutton for 5th gear/overdrive) and it wasn't really anemic. I don't recall lack of power ever being a serious problem when merging onto a fast-moving busy highway for example. Keep 'er in the lower gears and honk on it as early as possible on the on-ramp (before it straightens out!) and get it into third at maybe 60ish km/h, keep it leadfooted in third, and you could get up to traffic speed and merge before running out of acceleration lane. It was no rocket sled though!
Theres a video of a 2 stroke Saab coming around a bend. About 30 seconds of WAAAAHHHHHHHHH and then the little guy just putters around the corner. Funniest shit I ever saw. 😂
Those Saab 2-strokes are kinda sad, because that whole community never got the memo about expansion chamber exhausts. Eventually they replaced the 850cc 2-stroke with the superior high-tech... 2000cc 4-stroke. If only someone had the gonads to put a 2L 2-stroke in that thing with the tech of the day, it would have been pulling daylight on big-block Mustangs.
My relative had a Mercedes of the same era (maybe it was the same model I just don't remember) that had a manual transmission and a diesel engine with some laughable hp numbers like 50-70 and nevertheless it had a decent acceleration up to like 60 km/h and it took only 5 litres of diesel for 100 km on a highway
@@walterwixzwerg6735 maybe you're right I'm not a Mercedes guy really, but still it is quite remarkable how a such underpowered motor can accelerate such a big car relatively quickly (for a city)
Yeah, but driving a slow car slow is no fun at all. It's one thing if it's a plucky little sports car like a 1.6L Miata or old Porsche 912. But sometimes, a slow car also handles like a loaded cement truck.
When the 240 came out a popular car radio host in DFW named Ed Wallace said "It's the safest car in the world because it can't go fast enough to kill anybody and it was designed by people that wore pocket protectors." Still wish I kept my 90' 240 Wagon though...
It's much more fun to drive a slow car fast than a fast car slow. But I don't know about this one...My dad went grocerie shopping with his slow p.o.s 3 years ago and he still haven't made it to the store.
This reminds me of my cousin's old 86 Carpice back in the day. His muffler had fallen off, but he never bothered replacing it. We'd get on the highway and it would sound like the most baddest assed thing in existence, but it would be accelerating not too much faster than the car in this video. lol
@@IceStars12 yes, my Yugo is pretty fast. As a matter of fact, it has a similar performance to a Ferrari. Some Ferraris need 4 seconds to get to 100kmh, my Yugo needs 100 seconds to get to 4kmh.
Mom had 2. First one died with me driving on my permit, brother riding shotgun, Mom and Grandmom in the back seat. We were rear ended hard enough that we skidded forward into another car with enough force to shove the front fender into the left front wheel. Rear axle wound up under the back seats. All 4 doors still worked properly and we all walked away, shaken up but not a scratch. Mom went right out and bought her second one as soon as the insurance check got there.
I burst out laughing. That is the exact same year and type of car I just had. It was totaled by my insurance because of mold. I loved that car and am considering one again. But, this is absolutely true. My car loved to go slowly. She has no giddy up and I accepted that fact. 😂
@JETZcorp According to the Window Sticker, that's the size of engine that was in it. Maybe it was an earlier version of the vehicle that they used the 3 Cylinder engine in. 🤔
You have to have lived through the mid '70s through the late 80s to understand what a truly slow car is. How about a loaded 1986 Ford Taurus station wagon with 85 horsepower 4 cylinder and an automatic transmission. And that's not even the slowest car ever, but I drove this vehicle as a rental car in desert heat with the AC on, full of people and luggage and I can attest that it was downright dangerous to try to merge onto a highway.
@@tehagent1321 Yeah there were lots of potential problems with that year 302. It was throttle body injection but egr and ignition problems as well as bare wires touching could go unchecked.
I had an 80 240. I raced my wife in her 04 Jetta TDI. We were even until she shifted into 2nd and I was gone. Best thing about the car was the "special spare" tire. On a snowy day, I put it on. Not because I had to, but because I wanted to see the tread in the snow.
My wife's Mitsubishi Pajero Mini NA was MUCH slower than this. Then again, we lived in Japan at the time and the speed limits are MUCH lower so the vehicles aren't needing to get up and go. That Pajero was the slowest vehicle I've ever had the luxury of being in.
Yea, I daily drive an automatic, NA 244 with 327,000 miles on it. It is very slow. I get people behind me all the time who are mad and flashing their lights because they don't think I am accelerating fast enough, even though I am flooring it. I don't really care though, once you get up to speed the car drives great and has no issue scooting down the road at 75-80 MPH, and it is extremely reliable, parts are cheap, and it is the safest car available at the time.
I assume you do that slow acceleration in the right lane like a sensible person. They still flash their lights at you? "All the time?" Damn, some majorly impatient people in your area
@@nthgth yeah, if there is a “slow lane” I am in it unless I am already up to speed and overtaking someone. It is mostly people driving around in their $90,000 pickup trucks which have never seen a day of work in their life, they think they own the road.
This beast would show taillights to my family's 1979 Chevy Chevette (back in the day). Engine was rated at 60 horsepower (optimistically). The family joke was "0-60...if you push it off a cliff". Going up the local freeway onramp...it would hit maybe 40 entering the freeway. That was pedal to the metal. Topped out around 68mph, since we lived in the thin air of Colorado. Actual 0-60 (at sea level) was 19.7 seconds per Motor Trend. Let's just say it was scary how slow it was.
Those Chevettes were very common back in the day here in Brazil, together with other cars of similar power, often with 1000cc engines. The highest speed limits on our highways in the 80s were 80kph/50mph, and for good reason... most cars would have a hard time going faster than that!
My first car was a 95 grand prix and when I floored it down hill and saw the speedo and RPM's go up so quick, I was in awe. I just need to go down hills and I was happy. 😎
Those Atlas engines were good engine if you paid attention to the timing chains when the time came. Im disappointed GM just threw them in the trash after a few years. We could have had some great DOHC i6s and 4 cylinders. (the 3.5l/3.7l were ok too but i5s are inherently rough) They could have done some minor retooling of production plants, small reliability upgrades for increased power output, put some turbos on them and been up to date in 2023. I dont get why automakers wanna design all new engines constantly and not just start with a good base like the Atlas engine, fix the bugs found in real world use, then make minor revisions and upgrades as they go. Thats what we used to do and things were not only affordable because we didnt have to pay for the R&D costs, but parts interchanged for decades. Like I get why we arent using stuff like the 2.0l stovebolt or the LN2 style engines; cam in block pushrod 4s with 2v per cyl are definitely obsolete...but DO still have potential for modern power numbers. (People could get ~220hp out of the 2.2l s10 engines naturally aspirated and around 300 reliably with a turbo) Like why arent we just upgrading exisitng tech? Its possible and reliable because the people on the street are doing it. Those Atlas engines had every earmark of a modern engine (DOHC, VVT, Aluminum Blocks etc) yet they just shut them down and designed new stuff instead.
@tehagent1321 it's been a great engine, I can't complain about its reliability or function.. although 2 timing chains is excessive, thankfully i havent touched.. yet. The power output is very lacking for take off or passing. Just cruising it isnt bad at all and even though its 2wd manual I can trek through snow and ice no problem.
@@tehagent1321I _really_ hoped the 5th Gen Camaro would get the Atlas I6 since I loved it so much in the TrailBlazer AND it would've been a nice homage to the base engine in the 1st gen
"Speedometers off by 10 miles an hour" fucking got me 😂
1k likes but no replies? I'mma fix that
faster than my stock honda civic
fuckin had me giggling
Another safety feature. XD
Have an 850 and yep speedometer says I am going about 5 to 10 kph faster than I am
Ehh, still faster than my internet.
😂☠️
Still faster than my postage
Ikk
Still got one of those beep boop bork ghrrerrrrrrrrrrrrrdoooooddoodo boxes ? 😂
@@user-jz4sy2wn2c
Fr man ,get this.
Ordered some car parts from Bulgaria,I'm in upstate NY.
They got to NYC(2hr drive ) and went to Jersey(normal),and I figured after that it would come north.
Nope ,it's in Detroit right now. 😂😂
Volvo 200 series has wind resistance of stone church so that explains a lot. Really safe, reliable cars & thought.
“Volvo: Boxy But Good!”
Stone church! That's a great line.
It is also as solid as a cathedral
i would say your house does better in wind tunnel than volvo 200 series
Volvo 200s actually have a fairly decent drag coefficient of about 0.34 with a roughly 20 sqft drag area. Appearance has surprisingly little to do with aerodynamics.
0-60: 2 business days
😂
And he hit the accelerator on Friday afternoon😂
i'd say ''0-60: you bet 👍''
I don't care about speed. The Volvo 240 saved my life when my dad and I hit black ice on the highway spun out into the grass on the side and flip led multiple times. We were both only shaken.
thank god you guys are safe. But this comment was 7 years ago? Goddamn-
@@getoutofmyfac This comment was 1 day ago? Goddamn-
@@hamzamohammed7048 lil nigga
@@hamzamohammed7048 NO ABSOLUTE FUCKING WAY
@@hamzamohammed7048this comment was 3 hours ago? Goddamn-
This was way faster than i thought
I was looking at it and thinking it was in km/h 🤣
Yeah man been on the highway with T5 Transporter 1.9 TDI often, has got 86 or 84HP, it does 0-100kph in around 26 seconds... That thing is way slower than this. But it's awesome 😂😂
For real, my dads 316d 2016 model was comparable 😂, ffs couldnt even tell the difference between kickdown and cruising speed.
@@DarkSession6208 bro ur 316d is nothing, my dads 89hp s124 250td 1988 manual😂😂
challenge: dont reply like a down syndrome clown spamming a laugh emoji because you have no personality
"There's no rush in life, just little steps in the right direction."
- Rob Boss
I recognize that instrument cluster anywhere! Love my Swedish bricks, no matter how slow.
This must be the Volvo 240. Yeah it's a slow car BUT one of the safest to ever make it out of production.
Joel Beckerus You also spell like a farmer.
When it takes half an hour to reach 100 than no wonder its the safest car 😂
@@ferrari458960 This car is not 240, but you can totally have some winter skidding with volvo. Some older volvos does not have any safety equipment, so its all driver skill.
It was safe at the time but by todays standards it's less than average.
There was also a song written about the 240 called My Volvo by Grynch
If it gets u from A to B and sometimes C that’s all that matters 😂 drive safe man
Well, most of us have legs.
That's not all that matters I hate when people say that
@@testtor2714 damn you walk fast
@@josephhacker6508Lol
“Drive safe” like he has a choice😂😂😂
But this engine will work forever. As well as the body, it will never rust through. Those were ones of the most reliable cars ever built.
U fr saying that old volvos dont rust 😂😭
@@Jamppa.And you have a pfp of a bmw 😂😂😂
@@Dave_Kerman My garage buddy bought an ”Rust free” 740 couple months ago with only 280k Km and it has not seen a day on the road after, because we had to weld almost the whole body because of rust. Volvo didnt rust proof any of their cars back then
Thats bc it has literally no power,so of course it'll last. Same reason why it's nearly impossible to blow up any honda motor bc the lack of power 😂
old volvos rust like a mf in colder/wetter climates
This is just like my 85 VW diesel manual, takes about three miles to get to 60 on the speedo which is around 52-54 depending on how frisky it feels. Speedo will climb to 85 even tho the car tops out at 75mph after having your foot on the floor for about half the length of the county as your use all 52 hamster purrs the car has, and you might as just give up if you encounter even the slightest incline. Favorite daily driver ever tho, first manual daily and first 'foreign', love the thing to death and the reactions it gets as I slowly meander by and it make tractor noises and rolls coal is hilarious
My dad had a '78 Rabbit diesel.
‘How much horsepower does it have?’
‘How much what?’
Prob about 40 😅
@@11TruthAssassin honestly probably not far off. My car has 40HP and its maybe a bit faster than this haha
@@hunterborden6891what kind of car you have?
@@romedaartist3404 Honda Acty
Just didn't let vtec kick in
Some of y'all have never driven a mid/late 90's 2.3 Ford Ranger with the AC on and it shows...
Those hogs run forever tho. Even being wide open everywhere all the time
Fiat Panda 1.1 54bhp with AC on
I have a 2.3 Ranger from 2004 and it's really funny when you push gas to the floor and ventilation stop working lol
97 Seat Ibiza 1.0 44hp. It couldn't pull the knickers off a dead hooer. It was a Porsche designed engine, nonetheless. Designed to outlive petrol itself.
@@razoomist You have a bad check vacuum check valve for the HVAC system. When you floor it, you lose vacuum and the vents default to defrost. When you let off the throttle, vacuum comes back and it switches to whatever vent you have selected.
Super easy fix. $5 part and about 30 seconds to replace it.
Back when I was a kid, the 240 was the teacher's car of choice. Buy one when you got your credential, and you could drive it until you retired.
As a student who doesn't own a car, I would have been glad to have her as my own.
I was sure there was necessarily some kind of mechanical problem until he said "miles per hour", imagine if it was kmh ☠️
An original 2CV could just barely get to 70 kph that fast, right?
And it would still be too fast for driving school
I remember a Suzuki Jimny that top out at 45 km/h, the speedo itself only go to 50. The car was too slow for city driving, and already gasping for air for residential speeds.
@@r.a.6459 That sounds really false, even the very first LJ10 Jimny had top speed of 75 kmh and 25 hp from 359cc motor. Modern 8hp cars do 45 just fine.
Jimmy? Off road car? Even with low range on it wouldn't be that slow...
That's the point of all those extra RPMs on the dash if it won't go there! :-(
cheaper to produce
I paid for the whole tachometer so I should be able to use the whole tachometer
You can if you actually do proper maintenance on the car
Mods
Same reason the Honda Odyssey goes up to 160.. it's cheaper to share parts among different car models than to make a car with it's own accurate one
still my most favorite car ive ever owned, topped her out at 88 mph downhill on the highway. good times
When was that, next month?
@@nope.0.around the same time your mom sold it because she ran out of food stamps
Good times, McFly?
@@andrewharris6507relax Benz man
This definitely gives my Trabant 601 a run for it's money 😂
That’s still faster then the first 1980s Camaros were
We've come such a long way.
Idk my 81 lt350 camaro ran 11.6 in the qm
@@HansBelphegor 1983 Camaro Z28 HO has a 1/4 mile time of 15 seconds.
No stock Camaro from the 80s is running anywhere near a 11 second 1/4 mile.
@@HansBelphegorbs. Maybe with a turbo 5.3 in it
@@HansBelphegorno tf it did not
My family had a Scout with a Nissan six-cylinder diesel engine that took most of an afternoon to reach 70 mph. And, maintaining that speed was tiresome. Also, a Mercedes 220D with a four-cylinder, 60-hp diesel that was just as slow. An 18-wheeler could easily out-accelerate both of them. How embarrassing.
Diesel without Turbo is the slowest Thing in Universe
Was it the inline 6 that was a diesel version of the 6 in the 280z?
Those were actually (and still are) highly sought after cause guys would take that block and mate it to a gas head and boost it to the moon. Being that it was a diesel block, it could take insane amounts of boost.
To be fair 18 wheelers have like 500 hp minimun and after beating momentum they are really fast, be mad when a bus beats you in acceleration
How on earth would one even show his face in public driving something like that. Driving something shiny and new that I can’t afford, to impress people I don’t even know…..now that is where it’s at!
Yeah - or even slower; Toyota crown S80...lol. Took hours to reach 100 km/h
There are slower cars, like Mercedes 200D. W123 chassis one had only 55hp and the official 0-62 was 31 seconds.
I've also seen a W124 200D with 2 million km on the odometer reach 100kmh in 90 seconds.
Omg
I was just about to mention the all mighty 200D... It can run for one million easily but it's slow af
Absolutely true. I much prefer a car like that to a fast but unreliable one.
fiat 126. 0-62 in 48 seconds
My uncle had one, if there were any hills it couldn't maintain highway speeds.
holy shit, i immediately knew it was a volvo because my parents had one (an 80s diesel model, i dunno which one) when i was born and i instantly recognized the steering wheel and dash. when they bought it they picked it up from a dealership in florida and drove it all the way to virginia on a single tank of gas.
That's about on par with my 2.2l/5spd S10. 30min 0-60 and tops out at 75mph.
First vehicle I ever owned was a 2.2L s-10. I installed a CAI, Flowmaster 40s, cowl hood and Cragar wheels. And the damn thing probably took 25 seconds to run a quarter mile 🤣.
WRONG. My 1999 poverty wagon specced out as specified will do 94 and isn't that slow.
When I was in high school I bought a brand new 2000 Ranger with the 2.5L I4 with a 5 speed and fiberglass stepside bed. I loved getting beside s10's at red lights. My buddy that had a 2001 S10 wanted to swap after driving mine. The 2.5L was only used in 2000 and maybe 01 but I believe it was just a one year thing. My uncle worked at Ford Dealership back then and told me it was just a Mazda engine Ford waa experimenting with. He said they were more reliable and not making them as much in service parts and repair. Loved that little truck. Wish I would have kept it.
IIRC they were around 16s to 60 stock. Some minor upgrades (if you can shift that poor little Nv1500 5 speed quickly enough) will get you up to 60 in about 7s and doing the 1/4 quicker than the original 0-60 time though. czcams.com/video/tG4EaOHgB38/video.html
The ext cab has a 4:10 rear gear too, so if you have a reg cab that will need to be swapped out. The header was the hardest thing to do; the rest is pretty easy work.
@chadmiller2224 Wrong across the board. First the 2.5 was Fords twin plug design bored from the 2.3 ohc twin plug HP went from 112 -119 lol. Not really much of an improvement
Torque went from 135 -146. Those were from 1998-01
The replacement engine for those Ford manufacturered 4cly was Mazda 2.3 Dohc from the Mazda 3 that put out 143 hp and 154 lb ft of torque. From 2002-2011.
The Mazda B2300 B2500and Ranger 2.3-2.5 from 1993-2001 was a Ford Engine manufactured right in NJ.
So either you didn't listen to your uncle or like every idiot that works at a car dealership knows nothing about the products they support ,service or sell.
Also the the S10s with 2.2 had 120 HP and 140 lb of torque also were geared much closer than those 4 Cyl 2.3and 2.5 Ford Rangers. Having owned one myself. You definitely didn't blow the doors off of any S10 that much I know for a fact.
Finally a car that makes my Crown Vic seem like a rocket ship lol
But crown Vic’s got potential why you think they was used as police cars
I know exactly why they were used as police cars, thats why I went out of my way to buy one.
Crown Vics and their v8’s are quick bro haha
I own one, its not that fast lol @@claytonclark6851
I've got a P71, I absolutely love it, but its not fast. It doesn't need to be fast to be super fun to drive, but people that act like these are race cars are delusional.
This was my mom's car when I was a child and its poor acceleration on the freeway was the impetus to my dad buying her an LS400. When he was initially vehicle shopping for the Volvo back in '87, had he purchased a 740 rather than the 240, probably wouldn't have needed to buy the LS400 8 years later.
740 turbo maybe. My 940 base had 115hp and was 3300lbs. An LS400 probably felt like a rocket ship in comparison!
That's the thing though.. A 0-60 of 15-17s is really slow and if you're going uphill, it's impossibly long. If she had a car that did 0-60 in 10s, that would've been more than sufficient which I believe the 740 non turbo did though I'm not sure. @@martz0r
LS400 is a based choice.
based ls400
The 91 ls400 was my first car when i turned 16 i bought with my own money $500 bucks in 2016…i drove it for 4 years i miss that car so much but i bought a 97 chevy 1500 to replace it for 900 bucks before trucks randomly skyrocketed in price and that truck has been amazing also. Craziest part is these all were from craigslist, not even family members
Is this a Volvo 240? I learned to drive in one, 1985 4-door car with 2.3L 4-cylinder powerplant. So, something like a 3000+ pound car with (I think) 110 or 115 HP or something like that. Thing is, it had a manual transmission (4-speed stick with pushbutton for 5th gear/overdrive) and it wasn't really anemic. I don't recall lack of power ever being a serious problem when merging onto a fast-moving busy highway for example. Keep 'er in the lower gears and honk on it as early as possible on the on-ramp (before it straightens out!) and get it into third at maybe 60ish km/h, keep it leadfooted in third, and you could get up to traffic speed and merge before running out of acceleration lane.
It was no rocket sled though!
But the sensation of speed in those Volvos compensate alot. 😄
I don’t know why I’m dying laughing lol. This struck me as funny as fuck
yknow, when people refer to a “10 second car” they’re usually referring to the quarter mile
not the 0-30
The starter car in every racing game.
This is the first car you get in nfs and you gotta upgrade it after the first 3 races
Wow, and that was on a hydraulic lift, with all 4 wheels hanging free in the air....
"There he was, in front of me, doing sixty miles a week."
Jasper Carot.
I love this. Thanks for sharing
Theres a video of a 2 stroke Saab coming around a bend.
About 30 seconds of WAAAAHHHHHHHHH and then the little guy just putters around the corner.
Funniest shit I ever saw. 😂
Those Saab 2-strokes are kinda sad, because that whole community never got the memo about expansion chamber exhausts. Eventually they replaced the 850cc 2-stroke with the superior high-tech... 2000cc 4-stroke. If only someone had the gonads to put a 2L 2-stroke in that thing with the tech of the day, it would have been pulling daylight on big-block Mustangs.
I'd like to see that
I just found this video. It did not disappoint. Amazingly funny
Do that again with a early Mercedes W123 200D Automatic with 55HP to know what is slow.
or trabant p601 2 stroke engine with 23hp
@@debil_ No, feels twice as fast as the merc.
My relative had a Mercedes of the same era (maybe it was the same model I just don't remember) that had a manual transmission and a diesel engine with some laughable hp numbers like 50-70 and nevertheless it had a decent acceleration up to like 60 km/h and it took only 5 litres of diesel for 100 km on a highway
@@bytesurfer8651 Nearly Imposibe to drive a W123 with 5l per 100km. Think it was a w124 200D with 72 HP. This is a lot faster.
@@walterwixzwerg6735 maybe you're right I'm not a Mercedes guy really, but still it is quite remarkable how a such underpowered motor can accelerate such a big car relatively quickly (for a city)
A friend in highschool had a late 70s to early 80s suburban. The 0-60 time was from now until next week.
VTEC KICKIN IN BRO 🤟🥴🔥🔥🔥‼️💯💯💯
bro got that 19 second 0-60
driving a slow car fast is more fun than driving a fast car slow lol
Yeah, but driving a slow car slow is no fun at all. It's one thing if it's a plucky little sports car like a 1.6L Miata or old Porsche 912. But sometimes, a slow car also handles like a loaded cement truck.
@@JETZcorpyeah true
When the 240 came out a popular car radio host in DFW named Ed Wallace said "It's the safest car in the world because it can't go fast enough to kill anybody and it was designed by people that wore pocket protectors." Still wish I kept my 90' 240 Wagon though...
Love the plot twist at the end!
That car having 100, even 120 on the speedo is generous
You don't know 'slow' until you've owned a '58 Beetle!
You don’t know ‘a crawl’ until you’ve been in a Trabant 601
This is why i love my saturn. 0-60 in 6 seconds with a shitbox twin cam
The speedometer on that ride should be a calendar!
I had a 240 GL. Slow as hell, but very realisable. A great workhorse.
I had a 1.6 petrol Subaru that was the same. Not quick but very strong engine and solid car. They dont make cars like these anymore.
Same as any Honda or Toyota (though some of those are also pretty quick)
It's much more fun to drive a slow car fast than a fast car slow. But I don't know about this one...My dad went grocerie shopping with his slow p.o.s 3 years ago and he still haven't made it to the store.
Some slow cars are really fun.
Some drive like an old mattress.
This reminds me of my cousin's old 86 Carpice back in the day. His muffler had fallen off, but he never bothered replacing it. We'd get on the highway and it would sound like the most baddest assed thing in existence, but it would be accelerating not too much faster than the car in this video. lol
Makes my 92 accord feel like a rocketship by comparison 😂
My 240 needed premium fuel or else it would clack, but i really liked that car- I could see out of it and the turning radius was amazing!
If you think this is the slowest acceleration ever, you haven't sat in my Yugo.
yes
its fast
@@IceStars12 yes, my Yugo is pretty fast. As a matter of fact, it has a similar performance to a Ferrari. Some Ferraris need 4 seconds to get to 100kmh, my Yugo needs 100 seconds to get to 4kmh.
ok@@alexandar.j
I've been trying to find a Yugo near me in PA for years
You clearly have never heard of a Trabant
Mom had 2. First one died with me driving on my permit, brother riding shotgun, Mom and Grandmom in the back seat. We were rear ended hard enough that we skidded forward into another car with enough force to shove the front fender into the left front wheel. Rear axle wound up under the back seats. All 4 doors still worked properly and we all walked away, shaken up but not a scratch.
Mom went right out and bought her second one as soon as the insurance check got there.
Bro that Vtec is on FiRE 🔥🔥🔥
This isnt miles per hour, this is hours per mile 💀
I had a Datsun 220 Diesel from the 70s as my first car. This is a top fuel dragster compared to it 😆
Ahhh that boxy 1980”s vinyl dashboard with the analog dash, brings back memories
I got satisfied for watching a car that is slower in acceleration than mine ✨
Honestly that looks faster than my moms 2016 Chevy Equinox LT (2.0 NA FWD) its like 4,000lbs and makes something like 130hp crank and negative torque
Them noxes are slow as dog shit 😂 My buddy has a 13 2.4 NA Nox and it goes absolutely nowhere. My corolla used to smoke it back when i had it lmao
I burst out laughing. That is the exact same year and type of car I just had. It was totaled by my insurance because of mold. I loved that car and am considering one again. But, this is absolutely true. My car loved to go slowly. She has no giddy up and I accepted that fact. 😂
@@Hannah-io9jbget a Mazda, they move when you press the gas and probably more reliable too.
@@spicysnowman8886 That’s funny cause I just test drove one and I realized how much nicer they are. Might get one, they’re just pricey.
@@Hannah-io9jb from what I've heard, it's worth the price premium, especially over the newer gm 4 cylinder turbos, those things go bang like crazy.
Try the acceleration of a 1989 Hyundai Excel. The engine was a 3 cylinder that was used on motorcycles.
Was it? Every source I've seen says it came with a 1.3 or 1.5 Mitsubishi 4-cylinder. Iron block and everything - would be a real anchor for a bike.
@JETZcorp According to the Window Sticker, that's the size of engine that was in it. Maybe it was an earlier version of the vehicle that they used the 3 Cylinder engine in. 🤔
Reminds me of the LLV's @ my job 💀😆
That boy revving nicely tho
The 1979 Mercedes 240D says “ahem.”
There is also a video on youtube of a 1991 Mercedes-Benz 200D doing 0-100 in 2min 29s
You have to have lived through the mid '70s through the late 80s to understand what a truly slow car is. How about a loaded 1986 Ford Taurus station wagon with 85 horsepower 4 cylinder and an automatic transmission. And that's not even the slowest car ever, but I drove this vehicle as a rental car in desert heat with the AC on, full of people and luggage and I can attest that it was downright dangerous to try to merge onto a highway.
You don't want tickets today!
-the car
The car you get when you start a new Cyberpunk run
Can only imagine trying get onto the highway
This is actually reasonably quick. My 86 grand marquis I had in high school went 0-60 in 17 seconds and it had a 302 in it
Thats an 11s to 60 car. 17s is the 1/4 mile time. There was something terribly wrong with your clapbox
@@tehagent1321 Yeah there were lots of potential problems with that year 302.
It was throttle body injection but egr and ignition problems as well as bare wires touching could go unchecked.
I had an 80 240. I raced my wife in her 04 Jetta TDI. We were even until she shifted into 2nd and I was gone. Best thing about the car was the "special spare" tire. On a snowy day, I put it on. Not because I had to, but because I wanted to see the tread in the snow.
Damn that's a nice acceleration car
My wife's Mitsubishi Pajero Mini NA was MUCH slower than this. Then again, we lived in Japan at the time and the speed limits are MUCH lower so the vehicles aren't needing to get up and go. That Pajero was the slowest vehicle I've ever had the luxury of being in.
I’m sure the starter moto would do a better acceleration
Timed with a calendar... Not a stopwatch. 😂😂
I had a Vega, you would put down the gas pedal to the floor and she would slowly labor up to around 40 mph, what a beast
Engine fans : Still better than EVs. 😂😂
Magnitudes more durable in fact.
Damn right it is
Tesla: 0-60 in 3 secs... well one hour and 3 sec including charging.
Yea, I daily drive an automatic, NA 244 with 327,000 miles on it. It is very slow. I get people behind me all the time who are mad and flashing their lights because they don't think I am accelerating fast enough, even though I am flooring it. I don't really care though, once you get up to speed the car drives great and has no issue scooting down the road at 75-80 MPH, and it is extremely reliable, parts are cheap, and it is the safest car available at the time.
I assume you do that slow acceleration in the right lane like a sensible person. They still flash their lights at you? "All the time?" Damn, some majorly impatient people in your area
@@nthgth yeah, if there is a “slow lane” I am in it unless I am already up to speed and overtaking someone. It is mostly people driving around in their $90,000 pickup trucks which have never seen a day of work in their life, they think they own the road.
@@nthgth all the time as in at least every other day or so, which for someone flashing lights and getting mad is quite often.
Safest back then, nowadays that would crumble
@@WalterKnox yeah, I know the type unfortunately. They crowd the roads on Long Island where I'm from but I know that's common in lots of places
That Wagon is Begging for air 💀
I had a '94 ranger and that mad beast clocked 53 seconds to get to 60
slow but steady
This beast would show taillights to my family's 1979 Chevy Chevette (back in the day). Engine was rated at 60 horsepower (optimistically). The family joke was "0-60...if you push it off a cliff". Going up the local freeway onramp...it would hit maybe 40 entering the freeway. That was pedal to the metal. Topped out around 68mph, since we lived in the thin air of Colorado. Actual 0-60 (at sea level) was 19.7 seconds per Motor Trend. Let's just say it was scary how slow it was.
Those Chevettes were very common back in the day here in Brazil, together with other cars of similar power, often with 1000cc engines.
The highest speed limits on our highways in the 80s were 80kph/50mph, and for good reason... most cars would have a hard time going faster than that!
I bought a 240 purely because they look cool and rarely break down
My first car was a 95 grand prix and when I floored it down hill and saw the speedo and RPM's go up so quick, I was in awe. I just need to go down hills and I was happy. 😎
Still faster than my 99' Wrangler 2.5 with rock crawler tires
how does it get up the rocks lol
@@oliverhayesthecreator4988 gradually
@@dhillaz no wheelspin i guess lol
it actually took 20 seconds from 0-60mph
THATS INSANE
Thats pretty common For Cars from the 80s
24 sec
Land Rover Series II - hold my beer
My first car couldn’t do 70mph, struggled up hills too. Loved it 😊
Look up early cars and you'll be quite surprised by how quick your car is.
No, it's not the slowest acceleration car ever. 0-60 mph is about ~17 sec. Fiat 126p have 37 sec.
How about this car?
1970s Jimny
0 to 60 in NEVER
Not even 60 km/h
That thing is still faster than my t5 van 😅
I really need to get the DPF cleaned
As long as this car does its job transporting me safely, Im Pleased 👌🏼
0 - 100 in 25 Seconds 💀
Nothing compares to w 123 200d
0-60 in 2.Eventually!
“To the floor”, “Ehhhhh still to the floor”
bro bought the starter car in the racing games
Fun fact. The Iron Duke Camaro got to 60 in about 20 seconds. That was slow even for the time.
Interesting expression.
That was probably quick for the Iron Duke though, lol.
@@nthgth As it turns out, my Swype keyboard turned "even" into "eggmen"
This is what my 04 canyon 2.8 5 speed 0-60 looks like.. but with nearly 280k miles, it gets great mpg and is oddly reliable.
Those Atlas engines were good engine if you paid attention to the timing chains when the time came. Im disappointed GM just threw them in the trash after a few years. We could have had some great DOHC i6s and 4 cylinders. (the 3.5l/3.7l were ok too but i5s are inherently rough) They could have done some minor retooling of production plants, small reliability upgrades for increased power output, put some turbos on them and been up to date in 2023.
I dont get why automakers wanna design all new engines constantly and not just start with a good base like the Atlas engine, fix the bugs found in real world use, then make minor revisions and upgrades as they go. Thats what we used to do and things were not only affordable because we didnt have to pay for the R&D costs, but parts interchanged for decades.
Like I get why we arent using stuff like the 2.0l stovebolt or the LN2 style engines; cam in block pushrod 4s with 2v per cyl are definitely obsolete...but DO still have potential for modern power numbers. (People could get ~220hp out of the 2.2l s10 engines naturally aspirated and around 300 reliably with a turbo) Like why arent we just upgrading exisitng tech? Its possible and reliable because the people on the street are doing it. Those Atlas engines had every earmark of a modern engine (DOHC, VVT, Aluminum Blocks etc) yet they just shut them down and designed new stuff instead.
@tehagent1321 it's been a great engine, I can't complain about its reliability or function.. although 2 timing chains is excessive, thankfully i havent touched.. yet. The power output is very lacking for take off or passing. Just cruising it isnt bad at all and even though its 2wd manual I can trek through snow and ice no problem.
@@tehagent1321I _really_ hoped the 5th Gen Camaro would get the Atlas I6 since I loved it so much in the TrailBlazer AND it would've been a nice homage to the base engine in the 1st gen
It looks like my fathers old 144 Volvo that I loved as a kid
Meanwhile in Europe...
"Mate, was that a bullet?"