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Car Forum / Volvo Cars / January 2008Why I drive a Volvo...
Just wanted to say how thankful I am that my son (18 yrs old) is live and well after 3300 lbs. of my 940 sheared two trees at 75 mph and came to a stop as nothing more than scrap metal and he was helped out (after he came to) with nothing more than a bruised ankle. Looking for a 940 Turbo Sedan in Central Fl USA. >Just wanted to say how thankful I am that my son (18 yrs old) >is live and well after 3300 lbs. of my 940 sheared two trees >at 75 mph and came to a stop as nothing more than scrap >metal and he was helped out (after he came to) with nothing >more than a bruised ankle. Glad you son wasn't hurt. >Looking for a 940 Turbo Sedan in Central Fl USA. Perhaps you should forgo the "turbo" part of that... Gary  SignatureGary Heston gheston@hiwaay.net http://www.thebreastcancersite.com/ Yoko Onos' former driver tried to extort $2M from her, threating to "release embarassing recordings...". What, he has a copy of her album? > Just wanted to say how thankful I am that my son (18 yrs old) > is live and well after 3300 lbs. of my 940 sheared two trees [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > > Looking for a 940 Turbo Sedan in Central Fl USA. Look for a 240 Diesel non-turbo with an automatic.... Glad your son is ok. It was Volvo's reputation that convinced me to get my daughter a 240 sedan for college. >> Just wanted to say how thankful I am that my son (18 yrs old) >> is live and well after 3300 lbs. of my 940 sheared two trees [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] >> >> Looking for a 940 Turbo Sedan in Central Fl USA. >Look for a 240 Diesel non-turbo with an automatic.... Those can hardly get out of their own way, if you can even find one. Few were sold, fewer survived, and prices have shot up from the biodiesel craze. A standard B230F powered Volvo is slow enough without being *too* sluggish and you can still find parts and people willing to work on them. It's really too bad we never got the D5 over here. At any rate I'm glad too that he's ok, but those trees could have been someone else's kids. I can think of few excuses to hit a tree at 75 mph, it's rare to find a speed limit that high anywhere near trees. >>> Just wanted to say how thankful I am that my son (18 yrs old) >>> is live and well after 3300 lbs. of my 940 sheared two trees [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] >someone else's kids. I can think of few excuses to hit a tree at 75 mph, >it's rare to find a speed limit that high anywhere near trees. I won't debate the existence of tree on the side of an Interstate. I'm not sure what "someone else's kids" that would have to be standing on the side of an interstate means... Thanks for all your well wishes. And, by the way he wasn't in a Turbo. I just prefer to replace it with a Turbo (if possible) after owning 740 turbo and switching to a 940 nonturbo. Happy New Year Yes, Volvos are tough cars, alright. My wife's 740 was rear-ended by a Mazda. Wife was stopped, Mazda doing about 45 mph at impact. The front end of the Mazda was slammed way back. Little damage to the Volvo; most of the impact was absorbed by the bottom of the trunk. I spend ten minutes pounding the trunk back into shape. The car runs like a top and looks good. > Yes, Volvos are tough cars, alright. > [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > > The car runs like a top and looks good. Got nailed at a redlight by a speeding Mustang who just didn't see the light, a couple of years ago. The impact was so bad, it actually cracked the plastic on one taillight. " Got nailed at a redlight by a speeding Mustang who just didn't see the light, a couple of years ago. The impact was so bad, it actually cracked the plastic on one taillight. " and prob totaled the mustang...... > > Yes, Volvos are tough cars, alright. > [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > light, a couple of years ago. The impact was so bad, it actually > cracked the plastic on one taillight. > >>> Just wanted to say how thankful I am that my son (18 yrs old) > >>> is live and well after 3300 lbs. of my 940 sheared two trees [quoted text clipped - 29 lines] > > - Show quoted text - The 240 Diesel with an automatic was a poor attempt at Volvo-based humor. I did own a D240 and taught 3 kids to drive a stick shift with it. A perfect example of a gutless but otherwise well designed car. Seriously, a turbo-charged four cylinder car in either the 7 or 9 series would be quite a good car. Given the age of those cars I would have a pre-purchase inspection done including attention to the turbo. > > - Show quoted text - > > The 240 Diesel with an automatic was a poor attempt at Volvo-based > humor. I did own a D240 and taught 3 kids to drive a stick shift with > it. A perfect example of a gutless but otherwise well designed car. I must take exception to the diesel 240 being a poor example of Volvo humor. It's the biggest joke played on the American public. Sweet Wounded Jesus, that car is a piece of sh.t. I know. I own one. It handles like a shopping cart and with any cargo it is dangerous to have in traffic. Mine's for sale if anyone is interested. Since it also runs on vege oil, you can imagine the blinding acceleration when you're smelling fry oil. But the sunroof works nicely. > > > - Show quoted text - > [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > also runs on vege oil, you can imagine the blinding acceleration when > you're smelling fry oil. But the sunroof works nicely. Actually the motor on mine worked for 200k miles. It accelerated like a VW Kombi, billowed out smoke on hard acceleration, would cruise at highway speeds, got decent milage, made a great driver training car for the kids and pulled a small trailer filled with stuff for college dorms. The rest of the car was typical unexciting but well made 240 Volvo. What can I say, but that it workeed. I would not own another diesel though. The cost of operation is about the same as gasoline over the long term. The 240 and 740 gasoline cars were not known for inspired handling or acceleration. They were simply comfortable people moving sedans. Roadie schrieb: >> Just wanted to say how thankful I am that my son (18 yrs old) >> is live and well after 3300 lbs. of my 940 sheared two trees [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > Glad your son is ok. It was Volvo's reputation that convinced me to > get my daughter a 240 sedan for college. Sorry Roadie By today's standards of crash safety I would rethink this choice. http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=k3ygYUYia9I Take care, Joerg SignatureReclaim your inbox! Thunderbird makes emailing safer, faster, and easier than ever before with the industry's best implementations of features such as intelligent spam filters, built-in RSS reader, quick search, and much more. http://www.mozilla-europe.org/de/products/thunderbird/ > Roadie schrieb: >>> Just wanted to say how thankful I am that my son (18 yrs old) [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > Sorry Roadie > By today's standards of crash safety I would rethink this choice. Todays standards or not, they're still very safe cars. Many thousands of people have walked away from real world accidents in 2/7/9 series Volvos over the years and they're no less safe than they were back then. This can be argued until hell freezes over, but IMO you reach a point where a car is "safe enough" and beyond that are diminishing returns. I also take crash test data with a grain of salt, what really matters are the results of real world crashes that occur every day. > > Roadie schrieb: > >>> Just wanted to say how thankful I am that my son (18 yrs old) [quoted text clipped - 22 lines] > > - Show quoted text - Up until a few years ago, whoever keeps track of these things listed the number of deaths in the US of drivers or passengers in a 240 as 0. Then an elderly couple in a 240 in CT got thoroughly creamed by some kid and died. Of course, some of this is because a lot of eledrly couples drive it. But for a car without air bags, let alone side air bags, it does pretty well. James Sweet schrieb: > "Joerg Lorenz" <hugybear@gmx.ch> wrote in message >> Sorry Roadie [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > test data with a grain of salt, what really matters are the results of real > world crashes that occur every day. There are several aspects to what you say. If I had to sit in a 20year-old-car when two old cars crash I would also prefer to sit in a 240. But I would definetely not like to sit in a 240 or 7-/9-series Volvo when a crash with a current Volvo or another premium brand car would occur. Someone cited that in a given year nobody was killed in a crash with a 240. I love to hear that but the population of 240 in the US is so small in the meantime that this fact is not proving anything. What I would like to point out is that Volvos probably are still the best compared to their contemporary competitors in terms of crash safety. Development in this area was so dramatic in the last two decades that old Volvos cannot compete anymore with todays average cars. I'm driving my 5th Volvo now and the main reason to drive a V70 is the outstanding quality of the crash protection but other things like the general quality, the comfort, the space last but not least the image of the car are also very important. Joerg P.S.: Sorry for my lousy English but my mother tongue is German. SignatureReclaim your inbox! Thunderbird makes emailing safer, faster, and easier than ever before with the industry's best implementations of features such as intelligent spam filters, built-in RSS reader, quick search, and much more. http://www.mozilla-europe.org/de/products/thunderbird/ [ ... ] >Someone cited that in a given year nobody was killed in a crash with a >240. I love to hear that but the population of 240 in the US is so small >in the meantime that this fact is not proving anything. [ ... ] It wasn't "a" given year, it was a bunch of them: "American automotive fatality records, which are very complete, recorded no fatalities in a Volvo 240 until 1993. After that year, however, fatalities rose to 80-100 per year." http://www.bookrags.com/wiki/Volvo_200_series For a car introduced in 1974, that's an excellent safety record. Gary SignatureGary Heston gheston@hiwaay.net http://www.thebreastcancersite.com/ Yoko Onos' former driver tried to extort $2M from her, threating to "release embarassing recordings...". What, he has a copy of her album? I seem to recall that when I bought my new "96 850 Turbo, the salesman said that as part of the deal, all new Volvos came with a factory sponsored life insurance policy that paid out one million dollars to the beneficiary of any occupant killed in a traffic accident while properly restrained in the car. Never looked into whether what the salesman said was true, or just puffing. Don b. schrieb: > Just wanted to say how thankful I am that my son (18 yrs old) > is live and well after 3300 lbs. of my 940 sheared two trees [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > > Looking for a 940 Turbo Sedan in Central Fl USA. http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=k3ygYUYia9I If I were you, I would consider a 855 or a V70 instead. They are *MUCH* safer. I'm glad your son was not hurt :-). But thin about the video.... Joerg SignatureReclaim your inbox! Thunderbird makes emailing safer, faster, and easier than ever before with the industry's best implementations of features such as intelligent spam filters, built-in RSS reader, quick search, and much more. http://www.mozilla-europe.org/de/products/thunderbird/ >Just wanted to say how thankful I am that my son (18 yrs old) >is live and well after 3300 lbs. of my 940 sheared two trees >at 75 mph and came to a stop as nothing more than scrap >metal and he was helped out (after he came to) with nothing >more than a bruised ankle. Glad your son lived to tell the tale - not every kid is so fortunate. I need somewhere to store all my bumperstickers, so I drive a Volvo. Seriously, I got mine late last year because I needed to replace a (dead) 10-year car with a 15- or 20-year car. My service manual is on the way so I'll be learning oil/filter changes shortly... |
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