Absolute Time Capsule! Super Rare '96 850 Turbo Volvo! CAR WIZARD's in awe of the condition. 

WHAT A FIND! WOW. I got to have some real fun in one of these back in the day and they are great fun indeed. To see one in this condition was really cool!.

I love it. I'd be envious if it were a wagon.

Jealous of your score! I'm a long time Volvo shade tree for 20 years. Soooo mint!

Here is my detailed video overview on the Volvo! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-HE7VyCJj4iw.html

It will outlive any modern car

I love older Volvo wagons. I specifically wanted a 240 wagon as my first car, and It was... and I love the 740 and 940 wagons. I love the angles. I want another.

The better story is about why the wing and splitter were allowed for the 95 season and onwards. Alfa Romeo won the 1994 season with Tarquini because unlike the other cars, the 155 TS was homologated with the splitter and spoiler appearing in the cars that were sold acording to homologation rules. What they did was smart, they had the splitter, technically, in the car, but it was pulled all the way back because you wouldn't need that in the road going version. They also had a spoiler that you could put in the boot and not simply use it. The cars they were required to sold technically had these parts so the BTCC Alfa could too, and so they did. That's why they won pretty much all races it entered. But for 1995, the 155 was never on the podium even once. They allowed the splitters and spoilers for all cars so everyone ran them 1995 and onwards. The 850 wagon no longer had the edge, since the wagon shape would not allow for much of a spoiler, at least not the kind that would meet the regulations. So they changed over to the sedan, and over the years they started churning out better and better results but unfortunately for the 850 it never won the championship. The S40 eventually did. While the wagon was a neat car, I had a 850 too, the fact is that it wasn't especially well performing. They did some very smart things with the cylinder head angle and other stuff but ultimately they were too new to the game at that point, the platform was too new and they kind of had to get used to it over the 1994 season. While TWR was a great motor racing name, they were up against the Williams Renault. Back then Williams was hot shit, so nobody could really touch the Laguna. During the 1990-1999 Williams would either be 1st or 2nd in the F1 championship so to bring that kind of know how to BTCC, other teams must of felt hopeless. Regardless the 5 cylinder race engine from the 850 managed to get Volvo the championship in 1998. Even when facing against the giants of the day.

This is true but you're leaving out the part where Volvo 'interpreted' the rules differently (cheated their asses off) and tuned the engine to make way more power than was legal. Nothing could touch the Volvo on the straights, it would walk cars. They changed the rules soon after. Volvo was having a laugh back in the early 90s.

@@vandecar15 they didn't cheat, they just followed the letter of the rules. The rules said you had to use a production head and weren't allowed to change valve angles, so instead they mounted the production head at an angle, the rules said you weren't allowed to weld on the head so they bolted stuff on instead. It was checked every race and always proved to be within regulations

@@vandecar15 aaah, come on, everybody cheated as much as they could and dared. The fact that it was even possible to make these engines churn out that kind of power was testament to the old Volvo doctrine of by principle making everything more durable than anyone else ever did.

Yes sir wagon gang! Gonna put an 18T On my burgundy 95 estate

Volvo 940 🐻‍❄

i hit moose in audi and repair audi in volvo i must totaled...

Maybe that is why it only has 15k on it.

This is the case with most European cars

@@markmonroe7330 Unlikely. 7:48 you can see theres 136 or something miles on the trip counter. If that gear was broken it would say 0. Seeing lots of those on the used car market...

Did not know that

nah

They still do. More scientifically ergonomic today but still very comfortable.

Best seats there is!

was going to comment this

Yep, had two Saab 9000's and on my second Volvo V70..supremely comfortable all four.

my s60r has the most comfortable car seat i’ve ever sat in

Wagons are still better than SUVs, but people fall for advertising over reality.

I wish we had something like the BTCC in the States. 🙁

@Dennis Fahey if that was my car i would wax it with paste wax every 3 months and apply 303 protectant to the interior every 3 months as well. Care for it like a brand new car basically, if not care for it more

A new young driver should be in the most recent modern car a family can afford. The latest safety technology beats age every time, given the car was built for safety in the first place. British Fifth Gear slammed a small Renault Modus into an old 940 wagon 15 years ago. The Renault won that fight despite facing a Swedish family tank head on. Video on YT is a quite telling story. The worst fear right now would be the Chinesium cars getting international traction. Cheap. Looks modern. Are total junk and absolutely deadly.

You are right,those engines are indestructible and very reliable.When volvo introduced the new 2.0 litres VEA -engines the problem began.I had taxi company in Stockholm for 30 years and I have some experience about volvo.

@@georgiosevangelou9258 370 000 km on my 2.5FT. Runs like a champ, original turbo even.

and big fuel consumption... good for usa not sweden

Great name.... and you beat me to it 😀

While ford did “own” them they could not domesticate them. So say my S60, C30 etc.

@Dennis W yeah I love people like Euroasian Bob and The car wizard who care for cars the right way. Here in Canada nobody gives Jack s*** about taking care of anything. You gotta deal with more expensive car parts and finding out that a part is only shipped to the US. Canada may be nice but automotive necessities here are pretty terrible with more shipping fees and stuff. I’m literally the only person in my whole neighborhood out of like 400 people that even vacuumes their car and rinses the road salt off of it in winter. Then my neighbors, when their car rusts out they wonder “huh wonder why that happened”, all dumb when they’ve seen how I rinse the salt off my car every 2 weeks in winter. I say, do what I do and you’ll save tens of thousands of dollars from buying a new car because it’s somehow it’s “own” fault that it rusts out. My point is, I wish I saw more people take care of their stuff here in Canada.

Damn thing looked like a blue angel fighter jet,with wing in back + bue passing through Pensacola FL (G Navy

Shame it burst it's loins when they crash tested it. The firewall burst and there was a sharp tear in the floorpan.

If you drove one you wouldn't think it was boring. 🙂

@RichieSA77 oh yeah? I saw a cleaner one in midnight blue driving down the highway here in British Columbia 3 weeks ago. It was UNBELIEVABLE. I was freaking out how dam awsome and sick it was, there was day insurance on it, and I’ll BET that the driver was driving it back from a storage facility. It was in astounding condition. I’m willing to bet it’s the cleanest 90’s car in British Columbia. Seriously.

Thanks

Can confirm. My 96 has lived in Ohio its entire life and doesn't have a drop of body rust. Underneath there is some, and the rear brake calipers almost look fossilized, but they still work great!

Omg. That Volvo is actually brand bloody New. Wizard how much does one of those Volvo T5's 850 turbos cost today. I would love too be at that Auction 😊😊😊

As an American I would only want the wagon too.

These made in netherland front wheels drive cars are not real volvos. Just more modern DAF:s. True classic Volvo is rear wheel drive and made in sweden.

@@suomenpresidentti Gent in Belgium, but also Gothenburg, Sweden. The DAF-era was 300 & 400-series. The most fun car I've ever had was in fact a mint condition low mile 460 but declared dead by annual road inspection thanks to zero rust proofing from factory

​@@suomenpresidentti The 850 Turbo wasn't manufactured in the Netherlands. They were all Torslanda made.

@A RU-vidr I get your point, but if we thought like that, many cars from 80, 90 or 100+ years ago would be absolutely extinct or not as good anymore, as the ones which were preserved like new. But I've got your point. It's valid.

Probably owned by a retired family that spends winters in Florida.

Yes ,Volvo has some of nicest seats comfy AF !

As long as James doesn't take it for an African safari...

I also had a 850 GLT, amazing engine! Heaven between 4000 and 7200 rpm.... 🦄❤️🚀