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I had no idea they existed.
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1980 245 Canadian B21A with SU carb and M46 trans

My mother-in-law used to have one; a 1985. It was fun to drive on the ultra-twisty roads on the North Norway coast, with its rear-mounted gearbox it had a perfect weight distribution. By that time Volvo had sorted out a lot of the initial problems, which were many.

An important reason why Volvo bought the Dutch DAF company was that they needed to offer a smaller model than the 240, and DAF had this one ready for production. The first few years it came in the DAF configuration, with a variable automatic transmission. Horrible thing. Over the years the car became quite a bit better, some of the later models even got a genuine Volvo (B200) engine. But I always thought it looked like it got ridiculously small wheels. And I never got over the fact that they put a French engine into a Dutch car and called it a Volvo.

Erling.
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My 240 Page

they put a French engine into a Dutch car and called it a Volvo.
No worse than the old S40 (Mitsibishi-based) or the new S40 (F*rd
Focus platform), really. Volvo has always shared a design with
someone for their smaller cars.


-b.

IIRC, both the 300s and the 66s (check gallery under "Others") were originally what we call "captive imports", DAF (Dutch) cars dressed up and marketed as Volvos.

Bret's right though, neither one looks particularly solid to me. The 66 looks like a cross between a 140 and a Datsun B210.

Those Europeans get all of the fun stuff. All we get is the high end ($$) version of their cars. Too bad the Feds are so tight with the regulations. Went to Paris last year, should have seen all of the "A" cars - from every manufacturer. A 245 looked huge in the sea of cars.
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95 850, 88 245

Weird, i've heard of them, but never seen one.
I found this http://fbi.borsodweb.hu/pix.html
Got a few pictures there......
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John '82 242GLT / '83 244DL / '66 122S (crunched front end, looking for a home)

Edit: Haha, i just looked in the 300 forum...... not much info there.....

Until seeing those pictures, I knew that it was some sort of Volvo in the commerical, but I didn't know if it was a 300- or 400-series. Now I know it is the former.

Anyway, the commercial is for a English-language school or course, marketed towards (maybe) Dutch people. A foreign family of four gets into their car, straps themselves in, and turns on the radio. They start bopping their heads to the catchy tune that begins playing. However, the words to the song are very explicit--"I wanna f*** in the a**!" repeated over and over! The camera switches to a rear view, and for a split-second, as the car drives away, the upper-left ubiquitous "Volvo" logo can be seen on the car as it drives away. "Wanna learn English?" appears on-screen, as it is an advertisement for Soesmann Language Training.

The movie was recorded and uploaded to various places on the Internet, and now it's reached the status of one of those "e-mail videos" that gets sent to everyone for a good laugh.

Description of commercial begins with "European family."

Direct link to Quicktime video of commerical

I was *quite* proud of myself for recognizing the build of the car as perhaps Volvo, and the actually spotting the logo.
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'89 244 GL--25/22 ipd sways, Volvo truck amber turn signal lenses

One word: BRILLIANT

We need commercials like that over here!
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John '82 242GLT 343,000KM '83 244DL 253,000 KM '66 122S (crunched front end, looking for a home)

HMMMM somehow that just does not fill me with a sense of confidance in safety and durability like my 245s do...
Bret
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rust free in west Texas