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Pascal Prokop has his own solution for Switzerland's exceptionally cold winter: He built a wood-burning stove into the passenger seat of his 1990 Volvo 240 station wagon. More »
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Sometimes, the more boring a car is when it rolls off the assembly line, the more amazing it can be in the real world. This is a naturally aspirated, 2.3 liter, four-cylinder Volvo 240 wagon with an automatic. More »
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Despite what the photo description says we've seen Volvo 240chero/minos before. But I'm thinking the four-door is something new. If only we'd have gotten this instead of the Subaru Baja. More »
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A 19-year-old drive in Taiwan claims a "strong wind" caused him to swerve his Volvo into a pack of seven students waiting at a red light. The video shows motorcyclists easily surviving the mysterious gust of wind waylaying the car. More »
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Kermit the Frog once intoned that it isn't easy being green. As much as Nice Price or Crack Pipe respects the opinion of our friend with a hand up his ass, this bio fuel-ready Volvo wagon could prove him wrong. More »
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We're thankful for pre-Ford Volvo, but now we're thinking Post-Chinese Volvo will make us thankful for the days of Ford's ownership. So this pre-Turkey Day we're remembering some highlights of the company as it is now and as it was. More »
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We're convinced BusinessWeek intentionally created its "Fifty Ugliest Cars of the Past 50 Years" list to offend Jalopnik reader sensibilities as much as possible. We've pulled out ten cars that simply have no place on this list. Two-minutes hate ahead. More »
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The last time the Black Metal V8olvo raced, it was black and blue... and evil. It's still evil, but- like a bleak Swedish winter of death- it's all in white now.
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As we saw a while back, the onslaught of the all-conquering Toyota Prius has been booting hundreds of once-cherished East Bay Volvo 240s into the local wrecking yards. In some ways it's a shame for such well-built machines to be cast aside like that, but it's a boon to those of us who want to build race cars out of them. One interesting feature of the Volvo 240 is its very distinctive aluminum bumpers, which are always pulled off for metal recycling by junkyard crews before the rest of the car is sent to The Crusher. You often see stacks of Volvo bumpers next to aluminum wheels and radiators. But are these cars really coming from Berkeley? More »
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Berkeley and its nearby East Bay cities (including Alameda) have long been inhabited by legions of folks who swear the Volvo 200 series was the Best Car Ever Made. You'd have to pry their cold, dead fingers from the ignition key of that beloved mustard-yellow 245 or brick-red DL before they'd give up driving their lefty-bumper-sticker-bedecked Swedish bricks (at 49MPH in the fast lane)... that is, until the Prius arrived. Once a bulletproof hybrid Toyota enters the stable, paying Sven the Volvo Mechanic $1,800 every six months to fix a car that gets 18 MPG no longer seems like the bargain it once was... and thus begins the long tow-truck ride to the junkyards of Oakland and Hayward. More »
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Remember when 77% of you voted to see early 200-series Volvos in this series? Well, your day has come! I remembered that poll the other day and set out looking for a good example of such a car. 25 seconds later, I found this '80 DL (yes, Saab lovers, Alameda has about five Volvo 200s per block... and just one old Saab on the whole island). I really wanted to shoot a 262C Bertone, but the only one I've seen in Alameda is parked in a driveway (with a blue tarp lashed over the roof) and thus ineligible for this series. More »
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This relic of Argentina's Dirty War era may once have carried movie stars, heads of state or even racing drivers. Now, alas, its hydraulically operating doors only provide cover for street produce. Actually, the long, long wheelbase 240, workhorse of South American taxidom during the malaise era, is a perfect carrier and displayer of such wares, though word is the ghosts of "disappeared" dissidents have been known to sneak an apple when the boss isn't looking. [Thanks to a tipster whose original e-mail I lost, and who should send another right away for proper credit.] More »
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Lotus Australia says it's producing a market-specific 'roo runner based on the supercharged Lotus Exige 240 Cup. It'll debut in October at the Australian International Motor Show. Powered by a now-familiar Toyota-sourced / Lotus tweaked 1.8-liter intercooled four, the Sport 240 produces 240 hp and will be the first production car in Australia to to get F1-style, driver-adjustable traction control, and launch control that lets the driver set revs as desired. All that hardware conspires to bring the Sport to 62 miles per hour from stop in 4.2 seconds. The Sport 240 will cost nearly $150,000 in Fosterbux, that's the equivalent of $124,629 in Buddollars. More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=293573&view=rss&microfeed=true Somehow we think that when the good people at SKF launched the Volvo brand eighty years ago, this sort of rolling wasn't exactly what they had in mind. Nevertheless, the stout Swede handles this spill with aplomb. More »
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We've got to give ForbesAutos some credit. They're most often known for their lists of the most expensive and most prestigious car lists around. This time they've gone a bit sideways, looking for the players with the most bank, but with the least prestigious cars. That's right — there's a great number of folks with the means, but not the desire, to buy the biggest bang for the biggest buck. Instead, these Scrooge McDuck's have gone for something a bit more down to earth — and we've got FA's top five list of what they've got after the jump. Feel free to discuss amongst yourselves in the comments below. – Ray Wert More »
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Before there was Photoshop, car-design freakers had to use actual sheetmetal to render their creations. This meant the truly outlandish ones, envisioned by nutcases or absinthe abusers, wound up existing in the physical world. To wit: Here's a mashup of two 1983 Mercedes-Benz 240 wagons and a Chrysler Imperial. It's got three axles, a stove, microwave, freezer, TV, two air conditioning units and more chrome than Chip Foose's dumpster. The seller, Traderconnection.com, says the Merc diesel-powered unit took more than 2000 madness-hours to complete and has traveled around the US twice, possibly on that errant garbage barge a few years back . Still, we find ourselves drawn to this sad creature in sympathy, as if it were a two-headed kitten at the ASPCA. Though there's not enough absinthe on the planet to make us take it home. – Mike Spinelli More »
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