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 ...

We have street parked the car in the California sun and only the hard grey plastic interior parts ... Volvo it’s not a screamer. Most fellow highway drivers are sorta surprised when an 850 ...

There are plenty of nose-heavy cars, you'd say -- after all, that's where the engine ... Volvo calibrated the 850's suspension that way? By the third year of ownership I'd had gotten used to ...

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 ...