Comments by "Adrian McLean" (@adrianmclean9195) on "American Reacts to "What does it take to Kill a Volvo?" *I WANT ONE NOW" video.
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Volvo is known in Australia, as the Swedish Holden.
Was for a long time, the biggest selling European make, in Australia.
Long-term durability and somehow just worked in Australia. Because of its homeland, it's rust proofing is the best. This works for 85% of Australia's population, due to being coastal. Some of the things that make it tough for it's native environment works also in extreme heat. Volvo also often did their hot weather testing in Australia.
Volvo used to design their wagons first, then their sedans around them.
The new 8 series, eventually replaced the legendary 200 series. Porsche co-developed their new engines. Porsche use to make more money from research and development for other car companies, than it did from making their own cars. Yamaha also involved in Volvo engines.
At the beginning of the Supercar V8 series, Volvo was there. Polestar.
Turbo 240 was successful in Australian touring car championship.
Volvo has always been at the front of crash safety. A lot to do with moose and major cause of accidents in Sweden.
The boxy 240 was so, because the more upright the pillars, the stronger it was. Small door openings. SAAB, however, holds the record for the safest cars in the world, from combined information collected from real life crashes from around the world, and put together in Australia's Monash University Crash/Car centre in Melbourne. This is for cars, prior to airbags existing. Then Volvo and then the big Peugeots. Ironically, Peugeots were second best selling European cars in Australia - again because of price, simplicity, durability - as opposed to reliability, dealer network and made for Aussie conditions. Peugeot 505.
YouTube videos of SAAB and Volvo crash testing and advertisements are legendary.
Even the Bee Gees ( Australian , Brisbane ), Staying Alive song, was used by Volvo for their advertising.
A 200 series split a VN Commodore wagon ?, in half, during an accident on the Sydney Harbour Bridge.
The 850R wagon, often in that pale yellow colour was the fastest wagon in the world at the time. It raced rather than the sedan. Although now owned by the Chinese ( Geely Motors ), not the truck division, I think all the engineering is done in Sweden.?
New Volvo's very underated.
Excellent Polestars.
Excellent Scandinavian interiors, instead of funeral black - yuck !!!!!!!!!!!!
And they still make wagons and cross over wagons, if you don't want to be part of the ludicrous SUV movement - that has resulted in higher death toll, more expense and more environmentally unfriendly.
Go Volvo, go Sweden 😂👍🇭🇲
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