Volvo 745 Turbo Road Test 1985
This somewhat tired question is occasionally worth a re-think. If the German car is authoritative about its own excellence and the Japanese car unbeatably marketable, what is a Swedish car? A hard question. The Saab and the Volvo may have evolved from the same requirements for sturdiness, but they are as different from each other as seems possible. The Saab is nonconformist but generally European in nature, while the Volvo is probably the most American car ever to come over by boat. A truly assimilated product, the Volvo is your car next door, often taken for granted, perhaps by some people even taken to be domestic. Apple pie.
Because a fairly large portion of Volvo production-24 percent-comes to the United States, we may not realize what a small company it is. In 1983 Volvo sold just 365,000 cars, 87,700 of them in America and only 61,900 in its homeland, and Volvo expects to top the 100,000 figure in the U.S. in 1985. Almost a third of all Volvos built are station wagons, and when you think about it, it’s hard to imagine an American street with-out one. Our two busiest contributing photographers, for instance, could hardly imagine operating without theirs.
Both of them, enthusiastic drivers as well as working professionals, showed more than usual interest in this particular test car, the 740 Turbo Wagon. When the 760 series made its debut
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