Volvo 1800s, Really! ! !

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Is anyone else offended that Volvo is comparing their namby pamby current offerings to the only good sports car they ever offered, the Volvo P-1800s?

My high school buddy's dad had one. It was a Car, a real car. Nothing since with the Volvo badge has come close. I just have to change the channel when this ad comes on.

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P1800-ES - that's the one to get! (always wanted one, never owned one)

Wikipedia says: Total production of the 1800 line from 1961 through 1973 was 47,492 units.

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I agree on the 1800 being one slick ride, esp the wagon, but Volvo made a slew of great cars. The old ones were nearly indestructible.
 
50K total production over 12 years? Sad.

I really beg to differ, my folks just bought a new S60 T6 (TOL) and apart from having a rather cheap interior, it drives wonderfully and I guarantee it's a better car in every way. So much has changed in 40 years, it's not even fair to that old thing to compare.

As far as car companies naming cars things they shouldn't or making offensive comparisons, I think Chryco is the worst in that regard. Especially Jeep. All those pathetic little rinky dink things do not deserve to be called a "Jeep". To me, except for the GC and Wrangler, the whole brand is lost. Don't even get me started on the upcoming Grand Wagoneer- Chrysler is not capable of making anything cool enough wear that name. Just let the name rust in peace for crying out loud. They're doing so poorly they're just grasping at straws to get people to buy their stuff.
 
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Volvo discontinued the 1800 sports car because they said that sedans and stations wagons were safer, so yes, I'm offended, because Volvo is forgetting what they were all about. Even if the new Volvos are the safest cars ever, the company isn't marketing them that way.
 
hjames said:
P1800-ES - that's the one to get! (always wanted one, never owned one)

Wikipedia says: Total production of the 1800 line from 1961 through 1973 was 47,492 units.

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I'm with you Heather. I've coveted the 1800ES for 35+ years!
 
I find the math in that commercial hard to believe... He would have had to drive that car 60K-70K miles a year. 70K miles at 50 mph average is 1400 hours. That is 175 days of 8 hour driving shifts. When did he work? A science teacher, the story says.

A lease allows 15K miles. 30K miles in a year is a road warrior. I have driven 45K+ in a year and that was a lot of damn driving in a sales territory. Teachers don't do that, especially not for a string of 47 consecutive years.

I think at some point in the past he pulled a Ferris Bueller and put the thing on jack stands or hooked a power drill to the odometer cable.

Can anyone confirm the number of digits on a 1966 Volvo odometer? Did they flip at 100K like all the others? I seriously doubt it had a "millions" digit.
 
Quick estimate: That many miles is 15 years of the maximum hours for a commercial driver that never takes any time off.
 
iloveamps said:
50K total production over 12 years? Sad.


As far as car companies naming cars things they shouldn't or making offensive comparisons, I think Chryco is the worst in that regard. Especially Jeep. All those pathetic little rinky dink things do not deserve to be called a "Jeep". To me, except for the GC and Wrangler, the whole brand is lost. Don't even get me started on the upcoming Grand Wagoneer- Chrysler is not capable of making anything cool enough wear that name. Just let the name rust in peace for crying out loud. They're doing so poorly they're just grasping at straws to get people to buy their stuff.
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Chrysler Group LLC posted a net profit of $507 million for the second quarter of 2013, an increase of 16 percent from the $436 million the company reported a year ago.

That helped boost parent company Fiat SpA’s second-quarter net profit to 435 million euros, or about $577 million — an 82 percent increase. But without Chrysler, the Italian automaker would have lost 247 million euros, or nearly $328 million.
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http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20130730/AUTO0101/307300029#ixzz2bosAd3qT
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None of the orig US big three automakers including Fiastler are doing poorly
right now and haven't been for a while they are all investing in domestic and overseas plants and re opening some closed ones .Some are running 3 shifts . Suppliers are struggling to keep up Ford and GM recently each put 200 quality engineers into the field to assist US suppliers in ramping up .

That being said for the volvo 1600/1800's were pretty cool and have appreciated well although I thought the 240 was a pretty good car a well.
 
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tyeeslayer said:
I like my 1989 740 Turbo.
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A few years before I bought the 164E,
I bought an '85 740GL and it ran over 200K before my wife and 2 kids got T-boned by a Lincoln at an intersection. They got out and walked away.
Both 164E and 740GL were great cars. Pricey to have worked on around here but none the less, great cars.
 
El Pee said:
3,000,000 miles on this P1800:
http://www.swedespeed.com/artman2/p..._from_America_s_Most_Undistracted_Driver.html


I think the commercial is drawing comparison's to the 1800s reliability, and not its coolness. I have an XC70. I like it. I'd prefer an 1800
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I really think our 740 was aspiring for 3M until the Lincoln cut its life short ;0)!
I credit it for saving her and the kid's life and health. Really.
I'm not sure that the '72 164E had as many "safety features" but it was built like a tank with real-deal thick body steel and a cam and crank that was geared together in an in line solid lifter 6 cyl. Hell of a car!
 
In the summer of 1967, when I was ten, a butcher at the local grocery store got a red '67 P1800S. He still had it five years later when I started working in the store. He was an old man with an old wife and I thought they were the coolest couple cruising up and down West Shore Road ever.

I got my first white '66 P1800S at age 20. I sold it at age 41 for the same price I bought it for. It was a phase in my life when two seats and two kids did not match up and I'd lost my storage.

It was a good car. I loved it and treated it well, and it treated me well.
Would I get another one? No. Tech has advanced and these were products of their time.

As far as reliability and distance, the Lucas chrome bodied speedometer never would have made it far enough to rollover past 100k more than a couple of times.
 
Vee vill crush your silly box cars and take your vemmen, vee do it every time!:D
 

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