The 480 is one of the worst Volvos. It was developed for the US market, to lower the company pollution tax or what ever it was called, but the US tax rules changed and the 480 despite being developed with the US laws in mind it was never brought over to the US. The electrical system was and is a nightmare, (not up to Volvo quality), and the engine was made by Renault, do i have to say more. But it would be a great sleeper with a B5254T4 under the hood and with a remade electrical system.
Silently Sceptical the stock engine is from Renault, but the B5254T4 is actually a Volvo unit, it is the 5 cylinder 300HK beast from the V70n R and S60n R.
I have a Volvo 440 Turbo but the Turbo never had 173 hp. It was around 120 hp pre face lift and 122 face lift. BUT you can get your power up if you up the boost, it runs from factory with around 0,2 bar and you can get it to 0,8 bar, then the engine produces around 140/145 hp.
Ibiza had a version "GTI 16V" with 2.0 16V 150hp engine from Golf 3 GTI. After facelift, it has Cupra version with 1.8 20VT 156hp or Cupra R 180hp. Along with Ibiza, Toledo mk1 has same engines, 1.8 16V 128 and 133hp and 2.0 8v 115hp in GT version and 2.0 16b 150hp with "16v" or "limited edition" version
Can we get a video about "hidden sport versions"? What I mean with that, is to make a video about cars which were not actually marketed as a sport variant of set car, even though they did have all of the stuff to make it one, perfect example is the 1st gen renault megane coach 2.0 16V, which wasn't ever advertised as anything sporty, but it had the same engine as a clio williams, 4 wheel disc brakes, factory strut brace and much stiffer suspension as opposed to other models like the 1.6L.
Excellent comment mate, I know exactly what you mean - basically all the GTI, RS, FR, etc. cars, which do not bear this name but use the same engine mainly and apart from suspension, interior, or some feats they are basically the same - hell yeah man, good idea. For instance - here among us Czechs there is one such example: Škoda Octavia 1st gen 1.8 20V Turbo which is similiar to the RS.
I thought all the Mk1 Octavias with this spec were badged VRS and had bracing across the car behind the rear seat, making them obvious hot hatches rather than sleepers. Rumour has it that the first VRS Octavias Skoda released to motoring journalists were remapped well past the 180 bhp they came with from the factory, earning them great reviews and putting Skoda on the map as a company that could do performance cars. There was nothing out there with the spec, build quality and reliability for the price anyway. In the MkII Octavia, the 1.8 turbo was available with 4WD and no fancy badging, making it a VRS slayer on slippery roads even before a remap took it past stock 2 litre VRS power output.
And Volkswagen USA's rare turbocharged gasoline engine 1.8 liter cars from the 1980's, the first "1.8T"s, per se. There were 52 built for homologation rules...
peglor: probably yes, I don‘t know much about Octavias, but my friend owns this 1.8 Turbo 20V and I dunno... seriously the hype about these cars around here is so much big, so that it almost (ALMOST) makes me hate them - I mean they are good cars, it‘s just that I am much more into other cars. For instance I would kill for that Ibiza GT in this video, I absolutely love its looks. Another car that I find interesting is the Opel Vectra OPC... etc. etc. etc. :D
Ai Torror my mate first car was a 12 month old Megane Coupe 2.0 16v, great little car, really badly made in my experience. Was easily one of the better choices at the time.
The Lampredi 2.0L 16v engine was one of the best engine made in FIAT group. In fact, was the basis for all the various successful Lancia Delta HF Integrale 16v Evoluzione, Alfa Romeo 155 GTA (that were the turbo version of the same engine), and all the late '80s/late '90s 2.0 16v/2.0 16v Turbo version of various model of Alfa Romeo/FIAT/Lancia. Tip: the FIAT Tipo was even sold, for a while (for a year or two from its debut, before the Sedicivalvole debut), with a 136hp 1.8 16v, known as Tipo i.e 16v; owners said was so fierce and quick, even more than the later-made 2.0 16v, and it's so rare to find it.
Yes it had a awesome sound and performance for that time faster than golf GTI I had it back in time (1995) only one hot hatch was better unfortunately I didn't own it but my friend had it a lancia delta integrale evo what a beast my tipo 2.0 16V was compared to lancia almost like a golf 2 diesel
I'm so glad you have the MG Maestro Turbo in this! I think they're really cool even though they kinda really aren't... The Turbo Metro is a bit like the Group B Metro gave rover the balls to make cars that people might actually desire, instead of yet more Vanden Plas plastic crap.
Most of those just would have the engine/FWD unit ripping off from the rest of the car when accellerating full power as the bodywork rotted that quickly, I asume surviving Maestro's, Montego's and other Austins from that era had lots of rust protection work done when still new, and French and Italian cars of that era are not different, just look how many VW Golf Mk1 and Mk2 you still can see on the roads and how rare it is to see a Austin Maestro or Fiat Ritmo on the road now. I saw a Maestro 2 years ago and it was the first one I had seen in 30 years!
Most cars rusted badly back then Making them rarer and valuable today. Awesome cars. Very underestimated. I've owned a Monty and maestro turbo and they got faults like all cars but boy they can shift!
You've reminded me - FIAT made some serious cars back in the day. Could you make a list of them? Cars including the little 1 litre 127 sport or the 137 Berlinetta?
the '92 Ford Escort GT. I had one and it was as fast and fun as it looked. 127hp, 114 torque. BUT, it weighed 2400lbs with independent suspension and wider tires than competitors, 185/60/15.
The Renault 11 was my very first car back in 99 (though not the turbo variant but 1.8l 73 hp). Had carburator issues all the time and other issues. One time the gas pedal`s and the clutch pedal`s cables snapped at the same time xD. Had to scrap it after just 6 months. But I have to admit, it was fun to drive - when it worked. And bloody fast for 73 hp^^ Imagine a today`s car that has only 73 hp but goes 220 kmh on the Autobahn xD. Eventually I replaced it by a Renault 19 which had pretty much the same engine but an injection system. Up until now my favourite car I ever had. 4 years and 200 000 km. Sadly then I had a crash with it :(
Hey Visio, in Brazil we had a forgotten hot hatch that you could feature in a future video. Look up the Vw Gol GTI,. It was the first injected car in the country and had 2 generations. The second one had 16v longitudinally mounted 2 liter while being FWD. People drag race those there.
The volvo 480 was a "Shooting-Brake" (or shooting Brik) but in 1960, Sunbeam maketed a 2 door wagon as a shooting-brake, there was also the Reliant Scimitar GTE 1968, Volvo 1800ES 1972, which was known for its "Shooting-Brake" style, and the 2 door wagon style, or (coupé wagon?) has been around since the early 19th century. Then Lawrence Ulrich basically claimed that 2 door wagons are shooting-brakes in 2014.. maybe do a "* only known shooting-brakes"? 2 doors then 4 doors?
mercedes break the rules and named that 4 door sport oriented wagon(in 2013). Additionally, there are 2 door estate cars that are not shooting-brake(opel kaddet)
Shooting-Brake is based on the wagon back with 2 doors, that basically has the same, of not more "space" (or dimensions) that the doors take up, buut, yeah, car manufacturers are blurring them lines, as you said, the sports wagon mercades made they want to call it a shooting-brake. the only way the opel kadett can be a shooting-brake, is if they stretched the fast-back to a wagon-back, so the roof follows almost all the way back past the rear wheels, then goes down on a wagon like hatch.
I wish hot hatches had taken off here in the States. Aside from the Volkswagen GTI, the only ones we got were Japanese. Some of them were neat, but now they've been flogged into the parts yard, with only a veritable army of crossover trash to take their place.
You forgot to mention the VW Polo 9N3 GTI 2006-2008. I own one myself and they are extremely rare like the Lupo GTI. It is also very fun and extremely fast despite only having 150HP. When you drive it economically, you can get around 480km out of one tank (around 40 litres 5l is reserve). A full tank costs 50-52 Euros in Germany. The engine is very tunable up to 225HP and you just have to swap the intercooler. The rest is software programming or chip tuning. Very impressive. Stock specs: 1.8T 150HP 220Nm Weight (empty): 1269kg
You can forget all of these, only one to remember the Renault Clio Williams Mk 1(not the 2 or 3). People forget this is the first and only hatchback to have F1 engineers tune the engine, suspension and brakes. It also includes Gold plated wheels.
Scariest car I've ever been in. Although the one i was in had over 170bhp and that's after it was detuned. It had over 200bhp at one point but twisted the body, so was reduced abit...
Finally some hardcore facts from VisioRacer. Must point out that you sir, are a top level data miner for collecting all this data on a particular automotive subject, with fact checking and also securing video clips for some of the more rarer cars out there. Because of this, I'm going to recommend that you invest at least a portion of your money on professional pronunciation courses offered by a native english speaker with a logopedic academic degree at least on a bachelors degree level, pref masters. You'll probably never get rid of the accent, but will make many of the linguistic tongue twisters a helluva a lot easier and also help you with appropriate rythm and certain other aspects of articulation. You speak good english, but since this is an international forum, such an effort is well worth the investment in time and money. Because with 335K subscribers and several tens of thousands of views per video with in a week, you're making at least some level of bank. The only direction is up.
Excellent, excellent. Good to see the dark horse of the bunch (MG Maestro Turbo) in there. They used a very slightly altered version of the engine used in the earlier Montego Turbo, in that boost was modified to come in about few hundred rpm above. People were finding it difficult negotiating roundabouts as the boost would kick in unexpectedly, especially if shifting down. Funny, the magazines reviewed the press cars and they were getting faster 0-60 times... oddly though, the turbos kept popping when they were given back................. Interestingly the O'+' engine at 2.0 litres was a long stroke unit. In the MG Maestro EFi....
... the non-turbo but fuel injected car, it had a lot of torque. Acceleration was on par with the competition but it really shone in hill climbing events where other less torquey gti's struggled. My annoyance is that the company that produced it were always strangled for cash and so never really got a chance to develop the range properly. The MG1600 was developed because Montego was late and the bigger engine had to be launched with the bigger car. The S-Series hadn't been completed either so the R-Series had to soldier on for two years.
@ Saying that, I do remember my uncle who was a Rover tech back in 90's mentioning something about the SU carburetor having their caps popping off as a regular problem with those Turbo 'O's. I think he said that they came up with a locking mechanism as a fix to prevent it from happening. Perhaps this was the problem. I never personally heard from people that owned either of the turbo cars blowing up. Weirdly I had heard of minor faults with the water pump on heavily tuned units.
Lol I was looking for a First car yesterday and came across the 480 and its insurance is cheap. I really love the looks of that car and it’s pretty fast.
my dad had a maestro, not a turbo just the austin version. the door handles broke off all the doors except the drivers door lol. It was beige and brown, typical british leyland palate.
Wow. I had a Strada 130TC, a Maestro turbo, 480 turbo, Renault 11 turbo and a Fiat Uno turbo! I never did have a normal one e.g. R5 turbo, 205GTI, XR3i etc. But what I really wanted at the time was a Citroen Visa GTI or a Fiat 131 Abarth.
My parents had a 6 year old MG Maestro 1600 at the same time the quick turbo version came out. I owned a SEAT Ibiza but sadly not a 1.8 or 2.0 GTi. Very good car though.
My first car was a 2002 Volkswagen GTI, with the 20 valve 1.8 turbo. Best first car ever. Stupidly fast for a first car, and tons of fun. If you can believe it, that cars clutch survived me being a teenager and now has 230,000 miles on it.
Omg Fiat Tipo, this was by far my favourite car I loved my white Tipo. We travelled between our homes in North Wales and France so many times in that car and it never let us down and it surprised a few BMW
You know this video is about European hot hatches when the Fiat Tipo's fuel gauge is possessed and the Seat's rear lights come on when the owner revs too high. ;)
there's a reason most of these cars were forgotten. only 2 of these are faster than my 14 year old diesel Avensis (which is quickish for what it us I suppose but it's not even the quickest 14 year old diesel Avensis available!).
I wonder if you got the torque numbers wrong for the Volvo 480. Turbocharged engines typically have way more pound-feet than horsepowers. A turbocharged 176 hp four cylinder should have torque numbers in the low 200's, not the 128 that you quote. Another excellent video!!!
I have always enjoyed European vehicles. They had to work with very small displacement engines and were able to extract phenomenal amounts of power from them. Here in the USA we just stuffed a big engine into a small to medium sized car and it went like a bat outta hell. Where's the fun in that?
There are two Volvo 480 parked in front of a condominium right next to my house! One's black and the other is Bordeaux red. I think they are both owned by one guy
my dad had a volvo 480 turbo and he tuned it in 2002 and it made 450 hp with stock internals. sadly one day some assholes putted firework in the gas cap and the car exploded. they later got arrested and to jail for 10 years(every guy). and my dad got a volvo S70 2.5 turbo for free because of the accident.
@@sothere1 The concept is from Japan, true. But in fact, Hungary built them for many years. I don't know if that makes it European though... Probably not. Here in Hungary this Suzuki is one of the most widespread car though even today, after like 20 years of its production.
The lupo 3L isn't 3 litres, it's just called 3L. The 3L has some lighter body panels and aerodynamic tweaks giving it a different front end compared to other lupos.
As an American I can say I have never seen that Volvo. I've never owned a Volvo and I'm not a fanboy but I've always found Volvo's to be neat understated sleepers.
ax is called gt not a sport and had a twin choke weber carb not twin carbs and was a 1.4 there was an ax gti as well but was actually slower cause of all the extra wiring etc for the fuel injection, also used to get a 2.0 litre 16v ibiza called the cupra sport aswell as the 8v one..
Don't get the 480!! I had the Turbo which was quick especially with the turbo wanged up a bit and it handled well for it's time with a nice set of 15" rims and Avon sports tires all round. However it was forever having electrical and brake problems plus water sat in the passenger foot well until I drilled some holes in it. I've ad two Volvo's both were crap.
