Procta wrote:

Last Friday, i happen to be behind a Subaru Impreza saloon mk1 on a S reg, i don't think it was the turbo variant, i couldn't hear any dump valve going off. Been a good while since i saw an early Impreza, those just seemed to have vanished from the roads.
Also yesterday on the other side of the road a Volvo 340 passed me,

Most Subaru Impreza's became the victims of over enthusiastic drivers who ran out of talent. Many a fine Impreza has been written off by a tree or lamp post.

My Dad had a Volvo 340 on an E plate (1987-88?). It was a dreary vehicle. Built like a brick. which was unusual as they were based on a DAF design rather than purely a Volvo. It had a 1.7 engine (Renault based if I recall?) which was really undersized for it's mass. They did a 1.4. I never did drive one of those. My Grandparents had a 360. This had the 2 litre engine, and although nowhere near what you would call fast, it was a far better suited engine to the body shell. In fairness, they were both incredibly reliable and if all you wanted was a car to get you from A to B without any drama, they were pretty good.

I think Volvo lost its marque as being the ultra safe well built vehicles after these motors. The cars became more like every other euro box (I'm thinking about the 480) and crash safety, side impact protection, became the normal with every other car.

So to complete this post, many a tree or lamp post has been written off by a Volvo

Rashers wrote:

Procta wrote:

Last Friday, i happen to be behind a Subaru Impreza saloon mk1 on a S reg, i don't think it was the turbo variant, i couldn't hear any dump valve going off. Been a good while since i saw an early Impreza, those just seemed to have vanished from the roads.
Also yesterday on the other side of the road a Volvo 340 passed me,

Most Subaru Impreza's became the victims of over enthusiastic drivers who ran out of talent. Many a fine Impreza has been written off by a tree or lamp post.

My Dad had a Volvo 340 on an E plate (1987-88?). It was a dreary vehicle. Built like a brick. which was unusual as they were based on a DAF design rather than purely a Volvo. It had a 1.7 engine (Renault based if I recall?) which was really undersized for it's mass. They did a 1.4. I never did drive one of those. My Grandparents had a 360. This had the 2 litre engine, and although nowhere near what you would call fast, it was a far better suited engine to the body shell. In fairness, they were both incredibly reliable and if all you wanted was a car to get you from A to B without any drama, they were pretty good.

I think Volvo lost its marque as being the ultra safe well built vehicles after these motors. The cars became more like every other euro box (I'm thinking about the 480) and crash safety, side impact protection, became the normal with every other car.

So to complete this post, many a tree or lamp post has been written off by a Volvo

Muddybigdog wrote:

Saw a peach of a Williams Clio today, its been a while since seeing one

One of my 306 buddies has one of those, that he is restoring. Laugh is that's another 90s hot hatch that no one really talks about in the retro hot hatch world. Seems to have been sort of forgotten that one. Defender TD5 90 ---/--- Peugeot 306 HDI hatch back

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Barneyboy wrote:

Hi, There’s a lady in a Hamlet a couple of miles away from us who drives an immaculate Volvo 340 as a daily, also in the same Hamlet is a Moskovitch I think it’s a 412 and a big Nissan 4 door I don’t know the model of it but from memory it’s an early 90’s model almost the size of a Lexus LS400, when I next head over there on my walk I’ll get some pics cheers Paul

Finally remembered to take a pic this morning, I was mistaken as what I thought was a Nissan is in fact a Honda 👍


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