For some reason, this car remains more liked than envied. (Full disclosure: Volvo recently invited me to New Jersey to drive its 850 T-5R, though, unlike the usual car marketing pitch, I could not ...

A Volvo 850 T5R for your factory-hot-rod-hell garage! All of those mods, in the seller's words, "give the car more gas mileage and also increases the speed!" He'll take $4,000, or $3,500 cash in ...

And I shudder to think how harsh the suspension must have been in the allegedly sporty Volvo 850 T5R models with larger wheels and their "sportier" suspensions. Jay Ramey You can't tell in the ...

In our last—and glowing—review of Volvo's swift 850 Turbo wagon, we mentioned that the suspension's shock control might benefit from "a touch more firmness." We also hinted that cornering grip ...

After all this time, it can feel like there’s not a lot left to say about the Volvo 850. But, hey, it’s a great story, and there’s no harm in hearing one of those again. Once upon a time ...

but a mid-1990s Volvo 850 T-5R conversion into a two-door pickup truck. The Christmas touch came with the addition of a large pine tree on the truck bed of the appropriately colored Volvo model.

I promised the Volvo PR guy I’d take it easy in the 1995 Volvo 850 T-5R, but his S60 is getting smaller and smaller in my rearview mirror. I’m not even pushing that hard—I’m just following ...

But the 850 T-5R sought to change that ... but in the mid-90s that made the hot-rod Volvo one of the fastest family haulers out there. Only 5,500 examples were made, of which just 185 were ...