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Everyone knows if you own a Nokia phone and a Volvo, you're basically immortal
At least if it's an older Finnish Nokia. Not any of the newer chinese crap, which has only the name. Totally different.
i kinda wish everyone would create some durable long lasting electronics and i'm suprised how much Nokia fell from one the most popular mobile phone brands so much...
ah where are those times when battery lasted for a week with no problem , when there was no worry about your telephone falling at ground
@@doposud Exactly. I think it was the leadership in Nokia that time. They trusted too much on that they were the biggest mobile phone manufacturer of the world at the time. They should have gone with android, but they stuck with symbian. Then came Apple with new ideas etc.
Bad leadership was one of the biggest reasons for sure.
Today Nokia Networks is one of the biggest if not the biggest telecommunications equipment and data networking companies in the world.
Today's Nokia as a cell phone company has nothing to do with it or the original Nokia cell phone company.
@@doposud I had the outdoor/hikers and mounteneers version of the 3310, the 5210, that literally bounced back if it fell.
@@DenUitvreter I used my 3310 for so long, until various things required me to have a smart phone. The damn thing worked no matter how many times it was dropped, submerged (on one occasion in concrete, that took some fishing out), and once lost out in the woods for a couple of days until I could get back there with another phone to call it.
Oh yeah, also only had to charge it every week or so. If that. Never been much for hiking but I imagine they were perfect for long periods outdoors.
In the UK a fire truck demonstration showing cutting off the roofs of cars to extract the people.
Volvo have reenforced roof pillars. I asked how the cutters got on with those.
"Oh, we don't usually cut the roof off a Volvo, either they open the door and walk away, or they are dead."
Volvo uses real life scenarios to make their cars safer. My dad was in a very horrific car accident when he was T-boned by a timber truck at night, it was a Volvo V60 and while he was in the ICU for about a month he survived. My dad had worked at Volvo for 15 years or so pretty high up with advanced engineering - things like advanced super high strength steel and stuff like that. And the guy's over at Volvo told my dad that he indirectly saved his own life, because during the development of the V60 car he told his team he wasn't happy with the side impact protection saying they could do better, so they delayed it to make it safer. Couple years later he is driving that model, gets t-boned and survives when he probably wouldn't in another car at the time. Volvo took that V60 back to their safety center and investigated it after the police had investigated the accident. I love Volvo and their culture of making things better.
This comment is underrated
Love Volvo, but SAAB saved my mothers life.
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I like how Nordic countries focus on what's important
in ower lives 👍
(Jævla Svenskefaen, snart er vi i Nato sammen, -Liker det, søta bror :-) ).
@@andersrefstad8235 G.M Incompetence killed SAAB
Great story, love it! Volvo's R&D-department is huge, even other premium car brands use their infrastructure for their crash tests...
In Germany, we used to call them "Sweden Tanks". Especially the older, brick like designs. (70s and 80s)
And then we have actual Swedish tanks. Good ol' Stridsvagn 103.
In the Netherlands we used to joke that the dog rack was a structural part of the chassis giving it it's famous strength.
These were called Swedish tanks in the UK too!
@@mad_max21 "Stridsvagn" sounds a lot like the Swedish call their tanks "battle cars" . Am I right?
@@vogel2280 Yes
As I know Volvo invented the modern V-Type three-point safety belt in 1959 and patented it. But then decided to open the patent for every manufacturer for free - because saving lives was more important than money from the patents.
Nope, the three point safety belt was invented by a Mercedes Benz engineer. Volvo only were the first to pester their customers with these uncomfortable things, Mercedes wouldn't dare to for many more years. Volvo kindly paid license fees to Mercedes for the usage of that patent to have their customers alive despite accidents.
@@zweispurmopped a bit strange if you google it, volvo comes up
@@zweispurmopped In 1959, the Volvo engineer Nils Bohlin developed the modern three-point seat belt. Although the design was patented, the company decided the patent was to be left open, making it available to all vehicle manufacturers to use for free. Mercedes didnt have anything to do with it.
@@zweispurmopped No, the two-point seat belt patent belonged to Mercedes. The three-point safety seat belt patent belonged to Nils Bohlin, working for Volvo.
@@zweispurmopped Sorry, BS
An interesting fact to note is that no one has EVER had a fatal crash in a Volvo XC90 (in the UK) since the model's release in 2002
That’s amazing 👏
What about the counterparty? ;)
@@karstenvagt1075 Not all accidents have a counterparty as in other vehicles being involved. Also, a pedestrian bumping into a stationary Lada could result in people getting killed inside a vehicle, so what's your point? It's not like Volvo is mounting external spears designed to impale other vehicles in order to save themselves...
@@IWrocker Google xc90 vs camaro. Or every xc90 crash. Mind blown. I feel safe in mine after that info.
@@karstenvagt1075 That is other manufacturers' problem.
7500 USD for a 850! These are dirt cheep here in Sweden. You have to relocate :D
New employee of junkyard, we dont have a car crusher? Eployer: nah we just buy used volvos.
volvos can run for a long time with good care and maintenance. the one with most miles on it is a volvo p1800 that have clocked 3.2 million miles.
Yep, a guy from new York?
Gave him a new Volvo
@@adrianmclean9195 I think he passed away,
@@donquixote1502okay, I didn't know that. I'm sorry.
the p1800 may be my fav classic car, gorgeous
Fun fact about volvo, there was crash in my country, cx70 or whatever that suv is named crashed with with some MB, one person in that volvo died. Volvo did buy that wreck for price of full new car just to see what went wrong and why someone died in it. That's dedication to safety. My brother on the other hand crashed his S60 doing 100km/h into concrete fence, went thru it, rammed some small tree and then stopped on large tree, car was absolutely totalled he got out and didn't even had single scratch on him.
I don't know about the rest of the world, but here at home in Sweden Volvo sends a special research team to every major incident involving newer Volvos to learn more.
@@kanalnamn yeah they strive to improve their products all the time. they also bought back a FH12 that had gone 1.4 million km boosted so hard it went above the scale on the boost gauge and still using stock part with nothing changed. that old girl was a ripper XD we only got rid of it because the cabin was rusted like mad due to mainly running on salted roads all the time. they want quality over quantity
@@kanalnamn In the 1950s Volvo had something they called Volvo PV garanti Volvo PV warranty
if you bought a new Volvo car back then and it broke down they would replace the car with a brand new one Then they would analyze the broken car to see what was wrong and improve the model the following year to make it better
but the competition did not like this and they had to stop it
they did the same thing when a Volvo was involved in an accident to improve the safety and that is how They got their reputation of being one of the safest cars in the world
The other Swedish car brand Saab was constantly competing with Volvo to be the safest car and both brands had good safety records from the start almost
for instance saab 96 was the only car model that didn't really require a safety cage on rally competition because it was sort of already built in to the curved roof but they had to put one in anyway because of rules and regulations
the Saab 900 model was hoisted up in a crane and then drooped with the roof down and the doors was still working after that
Top Gear Uk tested this as well in their Saab special show
Volvo entered the BTCC race with the 850 wagon. One of the coolest things I've seen.
I live in Gothemburg, the origin city of Volvo. I raced in a 240, owned a 740 and worked in both the car- and truck factory. Wonderful cars and lovely to see and read that comments from all around the world about these vehicles ❤
Also fun to see a lot of Volvos in a lot of movies and tv-shows from the US.
Drive a 2001 VolvoV70 2.4T to and from work (work in Gothenburg, live in Alingsås). I drive Volvo at work as well, just that his one doesn't have a 2.4L turbocharged I5, but a 12.7L I6 producing 540hp.
joke have always been that when 2 volvos collide headon a black hole is born XD
volvo also competed with the 850 station wagon in the BTCC. many commentators laughed at first, but they quieted down pretty quickly. If I remember correctly, they were like top 5 in most races.
czcams.com/video/BKmA5ylD-rI/video.html
For the BTCC the 850 estate at the time was slightly better aerodynamically compared to the saloon version. Due to Alfa Romeo interpretation of the rules with its 155 with the aerodynamic rear wing / front splitter kit in the boot on the road going versions, the BTCC then tweaked the rules for fitting aerodynamic devices which made the 850 saloon with rear wing a better combination then the 850 estate.
They even put a stuffed toy dog in the boot (trunk) for a laugh
@@GLH8 Estates/wagons are nicknamed "dog bus" in Sweden
The coolest BTCC car of all....
You ought to see what Top Gear did to a Toyota Hi Lux to be really amazed.
czcams.com/video/xnWKz7Cthkk/video.html Top Gear killing a Toyota part 1
My thoughts exactly. That was properly indestructable
I was going to say it sounds like they stole this idea from Top Gear.
@@SarthorS Yeah but they didn't even blow up a building. Can't properly test a cars indestructibility without demolishing a building now, can ya?
Haha... exactly what the title of this video make me rememberd
about 30 years ago in my home town of Hgh Wycombe in England, there was an accident at the bottom of a steep dual carriageway (4 lanes) involving 2 lorries and a Volvo 240 estate/stn wagon (traffic stops at the bottom due to a crossing and roundabout). the Volvo had a mother and 3 kids on the school run inside and the car was sandwiched between 2 lorries after the rear lorry's brakes failed. the Vovo was pushed underneath the front truck until it hit the front window pillars which stopped the car and the lorry behind dead. apart from looking v shaped and crumpled either end, the car held it's shape and the occupants got out unscathed. there are numerous stories like that involving Volvos. not sure about the new SUV's tho'.
I grew up riding in the back of Volvo's. Never had a crash but they were built like a tank. I wish my parents kept them because they're worth quite a lot today.
The death toll of the passengers & drivers of the Volvo XC90 (gen 1 & gen 2) since they were launched in 2002 is *ZERO.*
@@aabidamn I´m Swedish and I have worked at Volvo Gothenburg. I didn´t know this, amazing. It makes me proud.
The new ones are even tougher, they are made from Bohr steel, the shit you make excavator shovels from
The old volvo wagons were insane, my dad back in the days used to buy volvo 240's with his friends and participate in demo derbys with them, absolute tanks
Volvo's are knows as "Swedish Tanks", there used to be a advert in the UK where they would drive a car off the top of their HQ and show it driving away.
The average Volvo estate (Wagon) will do more miles than the old Shuttle did in its life span, They have a fantastic reputation for safety and reliability
It'll polish out!
Why am I instantly reminded of Karate Kid?😂
@@germanmechanic8591 Wax on wax off :P
Saab were pretty similar, the A, B and C pillars were more or less a roll cage. Top gear even dropped one on its roof from a crane from a realistic height and it wasn't in too bad a shape. Swedish cars are made to strict safety standards.
A German stunt team had a guy that used to drop 30 meter free fall from a crane. The stunt was only done if there was a SAAB 900 available at the local "graveyard" for cars.
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My mother fainted, had front to front impact with tree meeting cars in around 90 kmt. This was my fathers 8. Ore 9. SAAB. one of his first comments to me, after it was clear that mum was OK. NOW it payed me back ! ( The "investment" ). Qalety has a price. Rip SAAB, GO VOLVO 😂
I remember that episode. SAAB made some pretty good cars. We had the 9-5 wagon when I was a teen as a replacement for the Volvo 740 we had before. It was a very nice car. The Volvo felt like a truck in comparison compared to the sportiness of the SAAB but the SAAB was also a decade newer.
You should check out the 850R variant. It's regarded by many as the best sleeper car. It has pretty much the same body as the rest 850 wagon but it has bigger engine and turbo
Also in the indestructible car category Sweden has the SAAB 900. SAAB are now defunkt but worth checking out for some of their crazy innovations.
Saab cars was never bulletproof in the same way the Volvos were
@@kronop8884 very true, volvo were definately built different, maybe not indestructible but saab were super safe for their time, a mantle volvo took over.
@@kronop8884 Saab 99 was so safe that when competed in rallying it didnt need an actual rollcage. :)
@@kronop8884
How do you test how good you'r product is when it hits a moose at 90 Kmt. Hr. ?
SAAB strapped 450 Kg. Off electrical HD Cable, (Moose sise), put it upp in the air where the body would be, starting to hit it.
The demand was that the A pilar was intact, and the door could be opened by hand.
I think SAAB was atlest as strong as Volvo, back then. (In a crash) Both were pioneers in car-safety ! (On snow, sleet, gravel, mud etc.
I like fwd).
Can confirm that the old SAABs are tough. I did a stupid back when i was 18 and rolled my SAAB 9000CS going about 180km/h on a icy road. Managed to brake it down to about 100km/h before i slid into the ditch and rolled three full revolutions before ending back on the wheels. Out of me and my two mates in the car the only injury was from my old sony walkman i had on the center console bouncing off the windscreen and smacking one of my mates hard in the shoulder.
In the UK their advertising used to say "Cages save lives" (referring to the reinforcing bars around the cabin), there should probably have been a disclaimer at the bottom clarifying that the lives saved are the ones IN the cage as opposed to the ones getting hit by it.
Of course this was back in the day when the only thing with crumple zones were pedestrians.
Some older cars had crumple zones, rarely used. If I remember correctly, I believe that Citroën DS was the first car to have crumple zones.
The 240s definitely had crumple zones
@@irishwristwatch2487 That's surprising, those things were like tanks. I remember my friend's grandfather having one, for what seemed like forever.
Although I guess the idea was to have a rigid cabin with the rest of the car absorbing the energy around it. Sort of attacking the problem from both ends.
It's amazing how far back some innovations actually go, I wonder if it was a technology developed for the road or if it originally came from motor sports like a lot of other stuff. I know Citroën were trying a lot of unusual stuff back then.
@@shaggybaggums youre exactly right! The engine bay/firewall was the crumple zone (which is partly why the 240's engine bay absolutely dwarfs it's engine). IIRC the engine and trans were designed to drop out the floor into the ground in tje event of the crash. That was mainly for high speed impacts though - 30mph and below they were rigid as thats what was believed at the time. Volvo are such an interesting brand!
@@irishwristwatch2487 That's interesting, I never knew that about the engine bay, it seems like a really clever design choice.
If I ever got to see it I would've been a kid at the time so I wouldn't have known what I was looking at. I would possibly have been able to point out the engine and the radiator. :)
It really impressive that they would direct the large heavy bits into the ground though, no one wants the engine in their lap at 70 mph.
They used to race the 850 in the British Touring Car Championship and everyone thought it was a joke but it did surprisingly well :)
That driver surely had a field day😂😂😂😂😂
In the late 90 there was a crash race event in my region. Volo' s had there own category. (😆german / dutch boarder)
Hey, I am a German and I love the stuff you are doing! I just discovered you a few weeks ago and your videos are amazing. Imo you are the best reactor on yt because you really want to learn stuff (example 2CV / Tatra).
I have 2 Video suggestions for you.
1. 2013 Sebastian Vettel Indian GP Pole Lap: Was an amazing circuit and the lap was so good he got pole by 0.7s
2. This is going to be a sentimental one. I would like you to check out the Bergprüfung Presberg. This was a yearly hillclimb event on my local road. Until 2012, every year, our small village of Presberg would become a paddock, the cars entered were displayed on the soccer field, and sunday they raced. The drivers slept in the houses of inhabitants. The village is on top of the hill, and cars would drive down into the valley and then climb the hill on a timed run. What car you drove didn`t matter, but you could see litterally everything. From Lufthansa‘s BMW Isetta to one of Walter Röhrl‘s Rally cars, everything was there. My neighbor even entered in an ancient lower formula car (F3000 or so) that he called the wasp. He later crashed it. I remember checking out the cars the evening prior to the last race and for the first time seeing a Ferrari Testarossa (There is a YT Video ofthe same car doing the climb).
Eventhough the event was shut down after 2012 for safety reasons, the road still exists (It is the L3272). It has been used mostly by bikers. Driving up there is tremendous fun. I don‘t have a license yet as I am not old enough, but one time my dad drove my grandma‘s Ford Fiesta 1.25 with 82hp up there on its pure limit. It was truly amazing and as a passenger I got so much adrenaline.
I love your vids and I would love you to check this beauty of a road out!
Best,
Jonas from Germany
I have always believed that cars build in 80s and early 90s are more or less indestructible. I have -85 w123 Mercedes and they have never let me down. Cars were build different back then. There is short series of "Fifth Gear" testing how can you kill an old Merc ( a wagon ;) )? Not really totaling it like they do in the Volvo video, but entertraining none the less. If you are interested it's called "Can You Kill An Old Merc?". It's in 3 parts about 5-6 mins each. Keep up the nice work, your enthusiasm is fun to watch.
850 is a really old car by now. They are basically I'm classic car territory and you will pay a huge premium on them.
If you buy the first version of th V70 that is basically the same car. Those are way cheaper.
Have been driving my 1997 Volvo Polar 940 in West Africa since 2007 and it refuses to let me down and am still diving the splendid piece of engineering. Believe
all you hear about this splendid machine and it's reliability and toughness!!!🙈🙉🙊🐵
I bought a very, almost red-flag priced cheap S60 T5 back in january (P2 model). It's going strong with only new tires and an alignment. I love it!
We have an idiom in Germany that directly translates to: "Putting someone behind Swedish curtains." It means "to put someone in jail." That's how save a Volvo is. You won't escape Swedish curtains. "Der sitzt jetzt hinter Schwedischen Gardinen." "He is in jail, now."
I called their design a ''chainsaw design''. Straight lines, quite angular and boxy, but they have their charm.
A family friend used to have a Volvo 850 turbo wagon with a manual transmission. One day we were having a 4th of July (i think it was) gathering, and he was supposed to be coming, but he didn't show up until an hour late.
Turns out he had left the car running and in neutral and had gone back into the house to get something. The car rolled down his driveway, across the street, and went off of a 9 foot ledge down into the parking lot of a commercial building where it proceeded to take out an A/C unit and hit the brick wall behind it. All 4 of the windows and the back window were shattered, the doors wouldn't open well, and the whole car was visibly bent, but he drove it right back up the hill, and about 40 miles away to where we were like nothing happened. He drove it for a few weeks until getting something else, but the car still ran and drove fine after that whole ordeal.
My 1992 Volvo 240 has 332k miles on it right now, and it had NOT been taken care of by the previous owners, but it still runs and drives great. I also have an 89 240 which only has 115k miles on it, so I should never have to buy another car in my life.
Friend‘s dad used to drive us to school in one of these. Still love them and might get one someday.
A Volvo once hit Chuck Norris at 150mph. The Volvo driver apologized and drove on. It was the one and only time, when Chuck Norris got a tiny bruise on his thigh.
The call it "THE BRICK" for a reason 🔥
also the original video is called volvo extreme crashtest part 1, it gets abused way more than shown in this video.
once drove a 840, when you closed the doors it was like shutting a heavy fault door, no banging no clutter, just whoomp klonk!
I had an accident with the lovely Austin Montego I inherited from my mother. Monty held up really well and protected me, but was destroyed. When an Opel dealer near my place had this old clunker, a Volvo 244GL from 1977, on sale for a song, basically for scrap, I was happy to take it due to its reputation fro safety, I still was slightly shaken by my crash.
Its Borg Warner BW55 automatic transmission, black leather seats and green tinted windows made it top of the range equipped for a 1977 244. Over the next 17 years that I owned this "clunker" and had many many thousands of happy kilometres of driving it including a holiday in southern England, it hardly ever required more than oil and water checked to run. Spark plugs and an alternator were due at some point.
I worked at an up market car dealership in Bonn/Germany in 1995 for some time and got to drive Jaguars, big Mercedes and BMWs, even two Rolls Royce and an Aston Martin Lagonda.
I found that Jaguars were _the_ comfiest of all, but at modest speeds and normal street usage, my 244 GL didn't lag behind them too much. I think Rolls Royce even bought the BW55 for their cars as well. Add to that a reliability even the much cheered for German cars could only dream of, the red four cylinder Volvo engine is legendary for beating all others in endurance, that was quite something!
The 244 is f***ing brilliant on black ice. When it starts skidding and slipping sideways, I found the easiest way to straighten it up was to let the engine idle and let go of the steering wheel. The modest torque the engine brake applied to the rear wheels was little enough to allow them catch traction again and strong enough to keep the engine ahead of the rear wheels. The geometry of the front axle would pull the steering to the right degree for the front wheels to catch. My 244 taught me drifting as well.
Man, I _LOVED_ my 244! It got old as well, though, and was in need of extensive work I couldn't afford to have done and couldn't do myself, lacking the space. When I got a job offer abroad in 2008 I decided it was time to part ways with my good old buddy and it got to a friend of mine who is a _real_ Volvo nutt. It has been living there ever since and still is going strong.
Saftey-wise my 244 got 4 minor hits from other cars while I owned it. They didn't even leave a mark. The 5th, the most intense hit, was a Mercedes 190 E 2.3. Somehow its driver didn't see us at a red traffic light on a hot sunny 1992 Sunday afternoon and gave us a good shove. The Mercedes had its nose broken, cooler leaking and the fenders poking out over the front wheels. With my 244, the rear fog light was mounted that was held by an angled piece of sheet metal had bent up. Fixing the damage took one touch. I then towed the 190 to the next open fuel station from where the owner could call for assistance and wished him well.
The friend I mentioned owned a Volvo 264 that got hit by a BMW 5er of the E34 series. Hefty impact. He was looking forward to getting some insurance money and went to a car body specialist for damage evaluation where the BMW happened to have ended up as well. The boss of the company took a good long look at the Volvo and told my friend to stop pulling his leg, this car had no accident damage. "Yes, I was in an accident, with that BMW there actually!" he said and pointed at the beamer that had been shortened by 10cm/4 inches in the nose by the impact.
The boss dropped his jaw.
One can't overstate the brilliance and care Volvo put into the designs of the rear wheel driven cars back then. F*** Mercedes, Volvo were THE BEST! The 850/V70 is the last family of Volvos really following their old design philosophy. Ford bought Volvo to get access to the technology and based the majority of their designs of the Nineties on Volvo's P2 platform. At the same time, Ford f***ed up many of Volvo's brilliant customer services and basically left Volvo behind robbed.
Taking the p**s with customers like with the S80 where there were features like cruise controls built into all cars and charging what would have roughly been a grand in US Dollars for the levers to access them would not have happened under Swedish management!
The company did its best to get back to its old splendour, but I can't acquaint myself to the mobile iPhones their cars have become.
I later owned two 740s which are brilliant cars as well, rock solid, but the calipers of the front brakes by Lucas are a pain in the rear, cause loads of issues with sticking brakes due to torn dust protection caps. You also feel the added 300 Kilos of empty weight which isn't too nice.
I also owned 2 Volvo 340s and an uncle of mine one 340 with the Variomatic constant speed transmission. One of mine had an LPG conversion which was nice and gave the car a range of nearly 1600Km/1000miles from its two tanks but ultimately ruined the engine, the other was a very generic four speed manual shifter from 1982 which I loved to bits. Superb turning radius and practicality and really good economy for a car of its year of make. The four speed transmission fit the engine perfectly. Also a great car on snow and black ice. A lot of fun to drive when other drivers just panicked! 😁
The prices for Volvos of the era I prefer have gone through the roof and what's available with my budget doesn't inspire my interest as much, so I no longer own a Volvo.
I now own an old Renault Mégane convertible, the first non-Volvo I actually bought. And I love it! 🤩😍 …and as the Volvo 440 and Renault R19 basically were the same cars and my Mégane is the successor of the R19, I kind of still have a Volvo-ish car, just with an accent and a little more je ne sais quoi. ☺
Hello from sweden. I have a mint condition black 1996 volvo 855R. Manual. With leather/alcantara seats. Fully loaded with electric sunroof,Automatic climatecontroll, electric and heated seats front and back. Stock it had 250hp but mine is tuned with bigger turbo and injectors and about 340hp and bigger exhaust system and it sounds really good. I have had it for 15 years now and only take it out on sunny days or too a few carmeets. It has never ever been driven in winter!
Very nice.
That sounds like a fabulous car 🎉😎
Watch them race that wagon in British Touring Car Championship, it's outrageous!!!!👍
@3:00 Thats a Volvo for you... We knew this here in Norway 20 years ago, but hey, what do we know, We only loved Volvos since the 1970's....
My parents only drove Volvos. One of these cars saved my father's life during a terrible accident. He fell in a ditch and made several roll overs. The car was totalled however my dad opened the door and stepped outside with only 2 broken ribs.
I now have a Volvo V40 and am very happy about it. 9 years of age and not a single mechanical or electrical issue.
Sounds like a T5, too. 🤘🤘
Also if you want the safest first car, for when your kids get old enough. It might just be the speed ticket in a tank, that sounds like tractor(if it's a diesel).
One of the reason volvos are so sturdy in front end collisions. (allegedly) if you hit a large animal on the road in the middle of frigid nowhere you could still get home.
Both Volvo and Saab, at least here in Sweden, had headlight wipers since at least the mid 1970's.
Here in Sweden we refer to Volvos as "Cast Iron Ferraris" :)
I would imagine so 🙂 my 2001 is stock standard and does zero to 100 KMPH in 5.9 seconds and will get to 270kmph top speed.
It's the best car ever 🙂
Every Volvo should come with the prancing moose decal as standard.
@@VompoVompatti lol I got a decal of two moose's rooting 😜
I’m restoring an old 1979 Volvo 245 with my dad. Father daughter thing😊. My next daily driver. My dad used to work at Volvo Helmond, Netherlands. As a rookie they asked him to get the whole Volvo 480 development and production line from Sweden to Helmond. They sort of laughed at him, wet behind his ears… so my dad went back to Helmond, rented about 30 trucks, drove to Sweden and loaded the whole thing up😆. The 480 was one of the first with a crntral computer and always something wrong with them. He was involved in making the first concepts of the V40. The V40 concept car he literally worked on. Getting all the plate work shipped and made, total secrecy. Love those stories. I grew up in volvo’s. In love with the early 240 wagons. 200.000 km means they are just about beyond brand new😊. But my dad’s 945 is also soooo good… Also love his 1967 Amazon wagon. Drive it now and then. He used to tour all through Europe on his business trips in this one. Restored it 37 years ago. Still as new. Nothing beats a Volvo!
"Everyone knows if you own a Nokia phone and a Volvo, you're basically immortal"... I gave you a thumbs up, sorry to quote you on this Fridolf, but it is so true. My father had the big 850 sedan. It was so luxurious and nice. And somebody not awake ran into his back at some point (people where going to work and after a rounabout, my father had to stop because just after taht somebody had to turn left). He got hit so hard by I think it was a Honda that he was "pushed" to hit the car in front of him (he hit the brakes because he could see that car coming really fast behing him in the rear mirrors, so it could have been worst for the front car). The guy with the Honda reallized at the last moment and breaked really hard so his "nose" "dove" so that his front bumper was under my father's rear end bumper. Needles to say, the Honda had a "total damage (it looked really like it had been in a really big crash)" and the car in the front was quite damaged to. My father's Volvo had scratches on the front and rear bumper, they changed them just because of the little esteticall details on them (scratched etc, but other than that, nothing)
I drive a 1996 850 wagon (an estate here in the Uk) over 200k on the clock, run's like a dream and everything still works, electric seats, mirrors, sunroof, aircon, everything. Buy one.
They had the 850R and the 850 T-5R which was chick yellow. The T-5R's are even more legendary.
The Volvo 850 T5-R was a sportier version of the top of the line 850 T5 turbo. I think it was made during three years, and each year it was only available in one color. The first one was the T-Yellow, only available in a creamy yellow color. The next year it was red, and the last year it was a blue 4x4 wagon. All three cars are legends in Sweden!
And in Norway...
Ohh, the Blue one...
They currently make twin charged production vehicles, blows my mind 🤯🤟🏽
Twin charged with dual electric boast motors.
Turbo charged and supercharged and hybrid together - but XC90 appears to have problems.
My uncles Volvo 240GL was pushed to the side in 1990's by a truck on the Autobahn at high speed. The car flew across the railing and turned over about 15 times until it stopped lying with the tires in the air. My aunt, my uncle and my uncles mother - no scratch, except bruises from the seat belts. Comment of a police officer 'You wouldn't be alive with another car'
Sadly new Volvo aren't build to the same standard anymore. All car manufacturers used 2mm sheet metal - Volvo was the only company using 3mm sheet metal. The nickname for Volvo in Germany at those times was 'Schwedenpanzer' (Swedish tank). Now Volvo is a car manufacturer like the others.
theres a reason why we have bin calling it the tank 😅 the t5 r was one of the greatest to tune as well. and the 850 was actually in dtm as well :)
As a swede, this makes me so proud. 😀
"Carlson på taket"* is a hero to some ! Did he not "Invent" the left fot braking teqnick ?
* Carlson on the roof...
Factory driver for SAAB back in the days.
Rally.
Had a Volvo V70 with 245k on the 2.4 5 banger. It was listed as low mileage! Everything worked too except the possessed clock that would count backwards occassionally
I had a Volvo 244 year model: 1979. I remember it had the headlight wipers as well.
Cheers from Sweden.
Ps: now i drive a Volvo XC70 D4, 2016, awsome car
There's a reason why Volvo (in Sweden) used the slogan "Volvos Värde Varar!", meaning "The value of Volvo lasts!".
Since you can drive it "forever" the value of the car doesn't (or rather didn't) drop as fast as with other brands.
Our king of the Netherlands, Willem-Alexander, had a 850 T5-R, if you google you find some photo's of him, also that he crashed the car in Germany while driven 150km/h+ (93mph)
A Traffic Policeman, who is an examiner in my Advanced Motorcyling Group, drives a Vovo on the grounds that he hasn't attended a fatality of a Volvo ocupant.
That estate/station wagon at the start is an 850 Wagon. Volvo actually entered them into the BTCC when they first came out and did OK! Check out some vids on YT. I would love to have one.
I think it needs to withstand crash with reindeer family after u drift on ice and started rolling, so from all sides. And there is no chance to call help, so it has to keep going.
Those bloody lights as well! Nobody could get those driving lights off! That was 40 years ago!
From the thumbnail I thought it was a Volvo 480 ES, but the sleak pointy front was the result of a few crashes. The 850 is quite a car and basically did what the 480 was supposed to do, get rid of Volvo's boring image, a market survey had shown that 95% of Volvo drivers wore white underpants. Because of it's powerful and nice sounding engines and handling it didn't just make Volvo's cool, it made the wagon, 'the dog house' cool for the first time in European automotive history. It also made the boxy shape of previous Volvo's cool retroactively. So it was quite an influential car.
It's actually not that roomy allthough the boot is very usable, it's not that heavy either. It's not only sturdy but also reliable and very, very durable. A friend of mine bought one around 97 second hand with over 100k as his first car, he sold it 2 years ago. Not because it failed but because expensive maintenance was coming, exceeding it's value. They are very cheap because they are thirsty and expensive in road tax, and are the go to car for people who partake in one of these cheap car rallys across Europe.
480 is the most impractical Volvo ever😆. Love the head lights and how it looks. But as for shopping and having a dog? I’ll take my 245😆. Personally don’t find them boring at all😊
My wives father was in a highway accident with a 18 wheeler, he was entering the highway from a non high way.. he got onto the high way and a 18 wheeler from the left driving field switched over to the right side where he was driving.. and got pulled UNDER the trailer.. got rolled over by the back tires of the trailer, and totaled the car.. he walked away from that accident with just a few bruises.
nice timing because just yesterday Misha Charoudin laped one of those 5 cylinder at the nurburgring. It made Portugal > Germany > Portugal and It was still pulling nicely at 300k km
…The meaning of the word "Volvo" comes from the Latin verb "to roll," which is "volvere." When that verb is conjugated into the 1st person singular, you get "Volvo," which means "I roll." …
Good name for these cars
😃👍
The car that holds the Guinness Record for mileage is a 1966 Volvo P1800 S which, as of 2018, when the owner (but not the car!) died, had run 3,260,257 miles, that equals 5,245,000 kms 😁.
When I lived in Canada a buddy drove an 850 Wagon, he rolled it entering the freeway when someone clipped him. They reskinned the roof and the drivers side doors and it was back on the road.
The small blue hatchback that he crashed from the side is a 1st gen Peugeot 106. I had one in a sporty version a ‘93 1.4 xsi. You wouldn’t want to crash with that car, it is very light and very unsafe. But it is one on the most fun to drive cars in sport versions xsi and the rallye. In Europe they are one of the most common rally and hillclimb cars in the small displacement categories. Mine had 100hp and weighed 850 kg/ 1870 pounds, the next gen with 1,6 16v had 120hp and in racing they made over 200hp. Imagine even Sebastian Loeb started his career with a 106 xsi. In tight corners is crazy how fast it can go, it has a liftoff oversteer character that makes it exciting and dangerous. In a old top gear episode for the best drivers car it took the 2nd place behind a Ferrari 550 maranelo , had the same g forces on a corner and breaking distance as a 911 of its era
5:00 Now he has a Coupe!!! or a candy box!!!
Had one the fist volvo v70t5 built in 1997. It was hit from behind and pushed into the car in front. The car that hit us was a wright off and the car that my car was pushing was a right off. My car they put 2 new bumpers on and that was it! That's why i love them so much. My wife and her father and our 3 kids walked away not even a scratch!
My former boss once got rear-ended by a white van full of workmen and tools in his Volvo 740 whilst waiting for a traffic light. He slammed the brakes before they hit instead of totalling the car in front of him. Got away with some damage to the bumper, the van was totalled and he did not touch the car in front :-D
I got a V70 as soon as I moved to Sweden a couple of months ago, and I’m very happy with it.
That volvo you found is a T5 short for Turbo 5cylinder. 225hp good for about 150-155mph.
Also, those rims is factory T5 rims, so it's a visual telltale of the model...
Yeah you really should go and wrestle a bit about the price, then pick it up at tops 6700...
Greetings from Sweden and have fun with it👌
T5 2 4 was the better block volvo used later years, had thicker liners so could take more power, I'm sat right about the limit of my 2.5t, if I'd known the 2.4 was the better block I'd of grabbed that instead.
My dad had a 740 GL station wagon from 1988. We were grocery shopping and some teenagers thought it would be a cool idea to walk through the parking lot and damage some cars by kicking the mirrors or the doors. When they arrived at our Volvo one of the kids kicked straight against the buttom part of the driver door. Nothing happened to the car. Kids toe was broken.
you should check out the volvo 240, espcally the 242 rally and race versions, group A volvo 240t - Victory in the 1985 European Touring Car Championship, 1985 German Touring Car Championship (DTM) and the 1986 Australian Touring Car Championship along with many other successes
If you show up to a demolition derby with a Volvo wagon you've devinitively won the derby
we had volvo's at my parents home. once got an accident where a Mercedes hit the back while we were standing still at a traffic light.
we had some glass in the bumper. the Mercedes lost his front grill, lights, etc completely.
volvos are tanks, very popular in the Netherlands
My first ever car was a Volvo 850 wagon that i got for $500 here in Sweden. I loved that car, even tho mine was in less than favorable condition lol. The engine never let me down
It's also worth saying that Volvo only existed as a company for a few decades.
While it was funded in the 1920s and produce trucks to this day, its not really the same company.
During the 60s, 70s and 80s Volvo bought up loads of equpment manufactures.
In the late 80s the tractor production was sold to finland. Around year 2000 the car production was sold to USA (that later sold it to china), and a few years later Volvo construction equpment was branched of as a separate company.
Volvo as the company that makes everything have sort of never existed. In 80s the sold of the tractor production but in the 90s they bought the excavator production.
The same is sort of true for saab also, but people don't think of it that way because the trucks when saab owned them was always named Scania.
Saab always made aircraft that was there original gig. But stuff like submarines they started to make very recently.
It's not saab that build submaries, it's kockums that's part of the saab ab group.
As a swedish person, it feels kinda funky that US consider Volvo "Luxurious" here in Sweden, they are everywhere, some people drive Volvos from the 1980s still. Belive most common model is the Volvo V70 wagon.
And this is the reason, we call them tanks here in Finland.
A few years ago, I accidentally rear ended a Volvo v70 with my Toyota yaris on icy road. Front of my car caved in about 20cm and it was damn miracle that my airback didn't deploy (2 inches to left and it would have). And best thing about that? That damn volvo had hitch knob which absorbed all the damage and it didn't even have any scratches on it's rear bumber. All they had to do was replace one of their parking sensors...
My speed at the time was only about 30kmh (about 18mph)
they really understand how to make a Tank for roads legal 😂
I'm driving Volvo S40 turbo from 2000. Funniest part is that in many other cars you pay extra for non-basic color (usually basics are silver, gold, black, white, red, blue) but many Volvos have very different basic colors. It's very common to see Volvo as a mint green, baby blue and possibly in other not so common colors. Mine is yellow and super easy to find in big parking areas. The first car I drove was Volvo 850 wagon and those are pretty cheap nowadays (in Finland atleast) but finding one that hasn't been driven over 400 000 km is rare.
There is an official Volvo channel on CZcams that shows the results of accidents involving a Volvo. Their tagline is "Volvo - for life". A couple of memorable ones are an XC90 that had been hit head on by an articulated truck crossing the central line (the driver having fallen asleep), the whole of the Volvo's engine compartment was concertina'd but the passenger compartment was largely untouched. Nobody who's had an accident in an XC90 (in Britain at least) has ever been killed. Another memorable video involved a Volvo Estate (Brake) and a Fiat Cinquecento. It wasn't clear if the Volvo had reversed into the Fiat or the Fiat had driven into the back of the Volvo, but the whole of the Fiat's engine bay was wrecked. And the Volvo? The rear bumper probably needed a good polishing. I myself drive a Volvo S60. Volvo - for life! There was an episode of Top Gear in the early 2,000's where they did unspeakable things to a Toyota Hilux pick-up. Their reasoning was the number of wars and conflicts in the Middle East where there was an apparent abundance of Hilux's driving around with a gun mounted on the back. They subjected it to a number of 'trials' each one more destructive than the last, and attempted to start the car afterwards (even if it needed a little work doing on the engine) and then drive it away. The car became legendary and occupied a permanent spot on the TG set.
Remember growing up my Mum were driving us to school and hit some compact in a accident. The compact was written off, the Volvo...we had to replace the front bulb and reattach the bumper.
They had volvo station wagons in the British touring car championship in the '90's!
You could buy one in Europe where they drive on the right and have it shipped over, don't forget though that parts will be hard to come by in the US. Thanks for the video.
I saw you became a dad not too long ago. When I became a dad I planned on getting a 850 station wagon, because I wanted something safe when driving with my little kid but still fun to drive, easy and accessible to build on, put body kit and a huge turbo etc etc lol. My grandpa had a 850 GTR model. And yes I live in Sweden
There's a reason why it is a common joke here in sweden to call Volvo 740s and 850s "Civilt Stridsfordon 740/850" (Civilian combat vechicle). Those cars just run and run and run.
Volvo's are great for towing, very safe. My father had an old 240 Estate and was towing a Caravan. Coming back to Devon from Scotland where they had been on holiday, they got on to the M5 (Motorway) Just outside Birmingham there used to be a section which had an adverse camber on the corner. Known as a blackspot for lorries and trailers. He hit the corner too fast and the Caravan snaked and rolled over, totalling the caravan., he just pulled over in the car. The Police who attended told him that he was lucky he was driving a Volvo. They said any other car and the car would have rolled too. They had seen so many crashes there, some fatal. The old 240 was built like a tank and so stable. That would be an interesting video, seeing an 850 take its chances against an old 240
Thanks for picking my recommendation! Lovely to see this in a reaction!
At first I thought that it would be very usefull if after an accident your car would still run so you could drive to the next hospital. But after a few scenes it didn't look like the driver needed a hospital at all.
I had a Lady drive straight into the passenger side of my 850 on an intersection. Her Opel Zafira Minivan was wasted while I could still open the doors on that side.
Been driving 850 ever since
You can buy them very cheap in Europe and import them State site.
We own a Volvo 245 from 1986. Old but reliable.