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Re: Post a useless fact
« Reply #2250 on: April 27, 2011, 05:13:38 PM »


Temple Grandin drives a Nissan Murano.

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« Reply #2251 on: April 27, 2011, 05:28:45 PM »
I drive a 1995 "champagne" coloured Volvo 850 2.5 SE with a 10 valve engine.  :viking:

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« Reply #2252 on: April 27, 2011, 05:29:29 PM »


Sedan or wagon?

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« Reply #2253 on: April 27, 2011, 05:30:54 PM »
Sedan, which you can read from the model number. The Wagon is called 855. :toporly:

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« Reply #2254 on: April 27, 2011, 05:33:34 PM »


That must be a European thing. In North America, both the sedans and wagons are 850s. I always liked the 240. Those things are bulletproof.

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« Reply #2255 on: April 27, 2011, 05:44:39 PM »
Volvo used to have a last digit for the number of doors: 142 and 242 had two doors, 144 and 244 had 4 and 145 and 245 hade 5; i.e. they were wagons. After the 940 series, which actually came before the 850, they usually stopped to put in the last digit, except for the wagons.

The 240 is a bit boring but very reliable and safe, like an old faithful dog. I have had two of them.

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Re: Post a useless fact
« Reply #2256 on: April 27, 2011, 05:51:29 PM »
I like my Volvo.

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Re: Post a useless fact
« Reply #2257 on: April 27, 2011, 05:56:50 PM »

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Re: Post a useless fact
« Reply #2259 on: April 28, 2011, 05:42:02 AM »
The 850 and forwards are a new generation in the Volvo family, since they have either FWD or AWD. Before that all Volvos except for a few experimental ones were always RWD.

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« Reply #2260 on: April 28, 2011, 05:56:56 AM »
I like my Chevy :icequeen:
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« Reply #2261 on: April 28, 2011, 06:06:11 AM »
I like my Chevy :icequeen:

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« Reply #2262 on: April 28, 2011, 06:08:26 AM »
"Eat it up.  Wear it out.  Make it do or do without." 

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Re: Post a useless fact
« Reply #2263 on: April 28, 2011, 04:59:47 PM »
The Swedish Instrument of Government from 1634, which among other things created most counties that still exist to this day, was never ratified properly, since no Swedish monarch accepted it.

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« Reply #2264 on: April 28, 2011, 05:46:10 PM »
George Washington had to borrow money so he could travel to his inauguration