#Volvo wagons

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1995 Volvo 850 T-5R

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Volvo 850 T-5 R, 1995. The high performance version of the 850 was powered by a turbocharged 2.3 litre 5 cylinder engine that made 243hp. Initially planned as a special edition model, demand was such that the production run was extended so that 6964 were made in total (saloon and estates)

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'I hold on to that and I think of the Volvo covered in algae and moss, and I wonder if this was the last thing it experienced before it became a haunt'

From Mil-Liminal, the podcast by @raptorjules

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Volvo 850 Wagon

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1965 VOLVO AMAZON

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April 18th, 2023

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Volvo 240 wagon

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Silhouettes of the cars of the Penguin character, including Maserati Quattroporte VI (M156) and Ghibli (M157) with widened wheel arches in purple plum color, dark blue Volvo 245 and Rolls-Royce Cullinan in plum.

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My chariot awaits!

Yes, Mr. C went and picked up his new baby on his lunch break, basically as soon as he was sure the bank transfer had cleared so they'd let him have it. I really don't blame the guy for being eager. It is his first car, on a spanking new license.

https://www.motortrend.com/reviews/2008-volvo-v70-wagon-review/

He does seem very proud of what is possibly the most nondescript vehicle on the roads of Malmö. I honestly think it's kinda cute. (And also that the Stealth Car is funny in its own way.)

Yup, it is very Volvo wagon. Not much else to say about it. Seems comfy enough to ride around in, and it does indeed have plenty of cargo room to haul assorted shit including my chair around in. If there were any moose in this part of the country, you probably couldn't find a better vehicle to run into one with. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Egads, I really have turned into THAT boring middle-aged person.

Anyway, the cargo space did already come in handy! Our newly minted driver had to take me out for a spin, and that also looked like a good opportunity to pick up this sucker.

That would be that bunch of brewing shit I ordered from Poland, and was not looking forward to wrestling home from the shopping center pickup point. Foot for scale. It's not heavy, just bulky and a right PITA to wrangle in from the parking lot even. (Using my lap as a handy dolly again.)

But yeah, we got it home with much less hassle than before vehicle. I am also vaguely plotting a shopping trip or two for the weekend, because I really am that old and overly domesticated.

Still struggling more than a little with actually having a vehicle available again, and not being legal to drive it around myself. (Hell, that's actually an automatic, so I could totally one-legged drive it right now, no problem. Assuming I actually had working glasses/contacts. 😒) But, that is a completely different story that I don't need to get started into right at the moment. Just too many conflicted feelings going on right now, though.

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Volvo Estate

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Volvo V50 SV Concept, 2004. Another SEMA show one-off, a V50 with a 2.5 litre turbocharged 5 cylinder engine pumping out 340hp and close ratio 6 speed gearbox

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[Context: this comment in the Volvo post]

here's the deets on the volvo. i had one of these but it was stock. it was also AWESOME.

Fuck, now I want THREE of these.

I don't see mention of an AWD conversion in the article tho, has he done it after thi- what is it? Oh, why I would want three. Yeah that's a fair question. So, well, I want one like that, obviously, and as for the remaining two, well: For one, I've had this project I nicknamed "Rice 'n' Shine". (Rice as in the automotive term for tacky, low-tier garb stapled onto a car to emulate cooler cars, which people claim to stem from the acronym "Race Inspired Cosmetic Enhancements" because saying the term originated from this style being applied to Japanese cars sounds kinda racist dunnit.) A way to celebrate and showcase the creativity that can be found in the car world, to create a spectacle that lights up people's day and, hopefully, sparks someone's imagination. Basically, the core idea is going through the car's every component and go "what is the wildest, most absurd, most miles-out-of-left-field shit I have ever seen done with this component... and how can I outdo it?"

For example, the exhaust. Remember that crazy Subaru Vivio Bistro I posted at the end of the transfem cars post? (How's that for a sentence most people will not say, eh) Well, I've seen crazier. Because the bosozoku style keeps on giving, there would be too many pictures of crazy exhausts to show, but for the longest time the title of most outlandish exhaust to ever grace my eyes has been held by this picture.

Thus, here is a sketch from my ’17/’18 school diary of how I would do the exhaust on this Volvo.

Of note are the transparent shapes on the lower half, which would be the bodykit. See, of course, the Volvo should have a bodykit, right, and of course it should be quite the outlandish thing. Yet again, bosozoku to the rescue.

(And I've seen people more ignorant of bosozoku culture call bundle builds like these with "rice", but at this point the word kind of starts to lose its meaning. I mean, defining this years-long effort with the same word as the people who put whistles in their exhaust to pretend they have a turbo (real thing btw)? And also, it very much stretches "race inspired". I mean, fuck kinda racecars do you think the Japanese had?

Hm. Fair enough.) But the idea there was, instead of having the exhaust stick out of the bodykit, to have it within the bodykit's width, and when it gets to the edge of the exhausts it just... stops, to only keep going when there's no exhaust again, creating all those shapes that stick out the fenders like horizontal scale skyscrapers. However, given the idea is to make it out of acrylic so its entire profile can look like these little side skirt accents...

...it could just be inside the bodykit, as it would still be visible. However, I noticed literally as I was writing that I can't both have the exhaust not stick out from the bodykit and have it go over a rear wheel that sticks out as far as the bodykit does. So how's this for an idea: what if that one wheel just doesn't? What if that one wheel just stays narrow? After all, it's not like the Renault R4 didn't just fucking have one rear wheel further forward than the other.

Because of course it's the French. And you know what? They're right! Why the fuck not? Nothing can be forbidden when you recognize no God. Trade nudes with your professor. Oh, and also, if you look back at my drawing's corner window, those little circles in it are outward facing speakers, so you can do the whole "car plays music so loud I hear it very clearly from a distance away" without getting hearing damage. So those were three ideas out of the several dozens I have. I should probably make an MMMM-style list once I'm done with that.

Either way, the second idea is more performance-oriented, but do not take this to mean it's any bit more serious. See, as shown by this picture from the article, Volvo engine bays have tons of foolishly empty space that could be filled with more cylinders.

I'm far from the first one to wise up to this, so much that you have multiple people who make mounts and bits for those ditching the stock engine in favor of an LS V8. But I don't want the 5.3L LS. I want a 4.0L V8 (like Toyota's 1UZ) to stick two turbos onto and bring it to 600hp. Why specify specifications so specific, you may ask. Well, because 4.0L, eight cylinders split into two cylinder banks, two turbos and 600hp is exactly half the specs of the Bugatti Veyron Super Sport. So if I just put another identical engine in the trunk to power the rear wheels... :)

If you're struggling to see my vision, this may help.

Oh, actually, here is the best meme of this sort I've ever seen:

It's not just the quality of the photoshop, it's that this is Caterham camera car (Caterha car?) is real...

...and that this is not a meme, that is actually the car that filmed the Chiron video. Well, the 'lower speed' parts. The other one was another Bugatti. OBVIOUSLY.

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I ordered a barbie Volvo wagon and I'm so excited. I couldn't resist, It hasn't shipped yet but soon hopefully

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She's still out there somewhere.