this one of the few fast cars where people dont think your a git! you can help your mother move house at 150mph
this one of the few fast cars where people dont think your a git! you can help your mother move house at 150mph
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YEP!!! Yeah, he opted for a new A6 1.8T over a V70R!
Gone now though, maybe a Volvo next year Unless I can persuade him to go RS6 but it's unlikely, he just dissmisses it with 'aah, it's the old style though... It's too similar to what I had." and I'm like "You had a 4-cylinder 1.8litre Turbo for crying out loud and with puny tin-can alloys, and very few options, not a 4.2litre Twin Turbo V8!! You're an idiot."
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Haha - i would have replied exactly the same....cant quite compare
Although Audis do LOOK great these days, S-Lines and all these diesels make me double take everytime!...And if im honest, i have to take a second look at most classic-shape V70s too!
Ive only ever seen 2 others..one was infront of my dad while he was in his van and i had just got off the bus - you shouldve seen both our faces. And he has seen 3 - one dark blue, the silver one and another laser blue......
Its a 5 spd Auto
I know what you mean - even the XC90 sound pretty hearty when used properly . My Dad got quite an impressive sound clip on his mobile last year - managed to get wheel spin - pretty impossible lol.
Ill try and upload it sometime.
In the meantime, here is the vid i currently have on youtube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e67zZ-kQIxc
(Im not making excuses, but this video doesnt portray the speed very well....)
Yeah they sound pretty decent. I live about a quarter of a mile from a Porsche and Aston dealership and at the Aston place they sell approved performance cars. On the way to the bustop couple of weeks ago i saw an A4 3.0 Cabrio from there.....and it sounded soooo sweet! Great sounding six-cylinder....
Niiice! They are great sounding engines - and while im here (and im sure that this'll be posted on UCP too, but im way too lazy to do it myself) i am a member of the Volvo Owners Club website, and someone posted up a link that pretty much said that Volvo are not going to make 'R' models in upcoming generations...
Its like my Dad was saying yesterday - Volvo were up there with the big boys in the mid to late 90s - they had the T-5 and Rs - coppers use(d) them , this alone is free advertising. But becasue of this 'negative' image that most people have on Volvos , that theyre safe and not fast, has made Volvo lost faith in themselves to make fast, practical, safe cars.....
My Dad finds himself extremely lucky to have even a 'warm' Volvo....
But look out on pistonheads.com Tom, there has been a few 265 Rs on there this past few months, all hovering around the £5/6K mark.....
Cheers.
We have a load of V70 T5 marked traffic cars around here, and I past an outgoing V70R AWD in the most hideous colour imaginable, I had a good mind to knock on the window and give him a good ticking off for ruining what would be a fantastic car by opting for it in the colour he had. It was vomit inducing!
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