Volvo sliced one cylinder off an existing engine to create the 2.5-litre five-cylinder unit it used to power the 850. There were two versions of the engine early on; the base engine had two valves per ...

Unbridled, that is, Volvo-style ... a simple tweaking of the electronic engine-management system is responsible for an 18-horsepower increase over the standard 850 Turbos. With these tweaks ...

The normal 850 itself debuted in 1992, offering five-cylinder engines in the ... runs well enough to be used in modern traffic from time to time. Bonhams estimates this Volvo 850 to bring between ...