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Before coastal Californians with the urge to drive
sensible
motor vehicles migrated en masse to the
and
, they drove
station wagons. For this reason, wrecking yards in the Los Angeles and San Francisco regions still
of fresh longroof-brick inventory, from
to
to
to
. Here’s a late-production
in the
.
This car started its American adventure in New York, if we are to judge by the Jamaica
emblem.
27 years and better than 200,000 miles later, its final owner gave up. Was it too many parking tickets or just the need of an ordinary expensive
that doomed this car? We will never know.
The B230FT turbocharged four-cylinder here was rated at 162 horsepower, which moved the 3,177-pound
along nicely (by 1991 standards). Yes, this massive-looking wagon weighs nearly 800 pounds less than the current
.
This one has an automatic, but plenty of U.S.-market
came with manual transmissions.
1991 was an interesting year for North American Volvo wagon shoppers, with the 240, 740, and 940 versions all available in the same showrooms (sadly, the 240 could be had with only naturally-aspirated engines that year). 1992 was the last year for the 740, production of which overlapped that of the
by a single year; unfortunately, we didn’t get the 850 here until the 1993 model year.
The same thing as a
944, really.
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