Convertible Volvos

"MultiplaOrgasms" (themightymultipla) 08/07/2015 at 15:02 • Filed to: It's getting hot in here so take off your top

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This is a small selection of roofless postwar Volvos, not including the 122 and 850 models.

OPPOsaurus WRX > MultiplaOrgasms 08/07/2015 at 15:15

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you missed the V70R-C

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > MultiplaOrgasms 08/07/2015 at 15:20

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Interesting thing with the raised beltline. Striking.

Party-vi > MultiplaOrgasms 08/07/2015 at 15:21

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This looks quite fetching.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > MultiplaOrgasms 08/07/2015 at 15:22

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The fixed fore-windows were also, I suspect, almost unique back then.

boxrocket > MultiplaOrgasms 08/07/2015 at 15:46

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Mmm, those C70s.

I don’t consider the 480s to be “real” Volvos, just as I don’t for the first S/V40s, as they were disguised Mitsubishis.

wkiernan > MultiplaOrgasms 08/07/2015 at 15:54

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Oh boy, that’s a beauty. That may be the prettiest Volvo I’ve seen.

MultiplaOrgasms > boxrocket 08/07/2015 at 16:15

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The 480 a disguised Mitsubishi? LOL. The 480 was part Volvo, part Renault, part DAF and part Lotus.

If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent > MultiplaOrgasms 08/07/2015 at 17:16

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Hoccy > MultiplaOrgasms 08/07/2015 at 18:03

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pip bip - choose Corrour > MultiplaOrgasms 08/07/2015 at 21:06

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p1900?

boxrocket > MultiplaOrgasms 08/08/2015 at 01:06

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The comma separates the thoughts, indicating the S/V40s were Mitsubishis in disguise, not the 480. Thank goodness the awful 480s were never sold in North America.

MultiplaOrgasms > boxrocket 08/08/2015 at 05:35

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I’d like to disagree with that statement. The only thing common between the S40 and the Carisma was the floorpan, as well as the plant in Born where the cars were assembled. And unless you’re one of those persons who think that anything “real” has to be RWD a fair point can be made that the 480 was a “real” Volvo.

boxrocket > MultiplaOrgasms 08/08/2015 at 10:11

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There’s more in common than just the floorpan. Suspension, crash structures, the non-chopped-”Whiteblock” engine, transmissions, doors, windows, etc. I don’t consider the 360 or 480 to be “true” Volvos, either, but do consider the later S40/V50 ones to be, as Volvo had a strong hand in the development process with Ford and Mazda, and did their own manufacturing of the vehicles, whereas the 360 and 480 were manufactured by outside, lesser companies. I do strongly prefer RWD Volvos (I owned 2, the last of which for almost 8 years), and I wish/hope Volvo reintroduces RWD or RWD-based vehicles, both from a competition standpoint and from a dynamic one, but realize they’re all-in with FWD/AWD for the time being, ever since the S/V90 went the way of the dodo.

Put another way, I see the 480 and S/V40 like I do the Suzuki Forenza/Chevy Lacetti, Suzuki Reno, Chevy Spark, Sonic, and Aveo, etc., that is, built by an outside company - in the named cars’ instance, Daewoo - but with a major brand’s badging and other mild changes to make it somewhat fit the brand (interior appointments and fonts, for instance).

MultiplaOrgasms > boxrocket 08/08/2015 at 14:26

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At least the 1st gen S40 actually uses Volvo engines, unlike the 2nd gen where the only Volvo engines are the 5-cylinder ones, with the rest being Ford/Mazda or Peugeot engines. The first gen is as much a Volvo as the second gen as Volvo also had a strong hand in the development process of that shared platform with the Carisma. As a matter of fact Volvo designed the 400-series almost completely by themselves aside from some suspension components and the Renault sourced engines, and even those were fine tuned by Porsche specifically for Volvo. Early P1800s were assembled by Jensen in england, does that make them rebadged Jensens? No.