Before volvo gets back to turbocharged 5 cylinders or better and rearwheel drive, they can’t really expect to compete with real luxury cars. My other volvo is 43 years old 164 and it was on par with same era Mercedeses or BMW’s.

Reason for the F16 to fly out was to identify the planes, they were flying without transponders and did not aswer to ATC. This happens a lot above baltic sea, russians just like things their own way. Recently they had an incident with Sweeden, when SU-27 flew too close to their gulfstream surveliance plane.

If you’re thinking if 740 was brand new as luxurious to its owner as the xc90 is now then, you should understand the 740 was more-less try to make a newer 240, just a daily driver. The unfortunate thing is 240 is nothing special considering it being a car, but it has turned a bit of iconic car (for volvo atleast)…

If you are running a full electric car, belive me not having a needle (witch in most cars is also electrical) is your last problem, when electrical systems fail. Allthogh I must agree that it’s retarded not having a speedometer over the wheel.

My recipe is triple carbs and rich mixture. But its known fact intake pressures that exceed atmospheric help to burn more fuel...

Soviet brothers from a different mother, greet you, davarish Jeep.

The Volvo 142 is really cool and has all the requirements for classical car, like rearwheel drive, coupe, manual transmission, solid background. But there’s one other car from the 100' series that lot of people are unaware of, and that is Volvo 164. Basically its the same car as 142, a bit longer but instead of having…

Where are all the radial engines?