Do you like my new car?
1988 Volvo 480 ES...
First registered in April 1988, when I was still at school.
Gawd I feel old all of a sudden.
posted by Rik at 3/03/2006 12:54:00 pm
Friday 3 March 2006
1988 Volvo 480 ES...
First registered in April 1988, when I was still at school.
Gawd I feel old all of a sudden.
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I'm afraid that no-one LIKES your new car Rik.
And there's a reason for that.
Yes, it's a durable, well equipped and stylish car that offered the usual Volvo attributes of no-nonsense interior design and unimpeachable safety in a package that was just a little sassier than the norm. But it was never a "driver's car".
The 1.7-litre engines rattle like one of those snakes you see in old cowboy films and you'd be well advised to get the later and smoother 2.0-litre unit. Early models also had a system that linked the speed of the windscreen wipers to the speed of the car but, along with the electronic information centre and pop-up headlights, these often went drastically wrong. Those headlamps that do still work usually squeal like a pig being buggered by James May. The seats are also not made from the most hardwearing materials.
But Jeremy, how do you really feel?
Rik, I have a child older than that car. Now I feel positively ancient. Thanks, dude. ;-)
But I still loves ya anyway!
JC: As usual you are wrong. I LIKE the car...
Dawn: Sorry
Rik: Never. Beats the hell out of the alternative.
Will you be getting a cheese-cutter cap and a tartan blanket to go with it?
SD: If I do, will you start to wear shell suits, and get Mrs. Duck to wear stilletos and a short leather miniskirt?
(escort driver y'see)
I'm sorry, but that photo isn't of an ES, but a 1990 Turbo...belonging to one of my mates...
About the 2.0, it's good, but not good enough, reliable, but ever so prone to oil eating...
The windscreen wiper bit was only on the 1st series of ES's, the B18E, and was not continued on the B18EP.
I drive a 480 Turbo, 1989 one, and except for the crappy chassis (who said it was a Lotus built ?) and the underpowered renault engine, i'm rather happy with my little baby. Excellent little car, fun, practical, reliable (yes, i did say reliable) and dead cheap !
Thats what I think anyway...
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