Volvo Cars
The Volvo S80 is one of 83 Volvo Cars models in the MotorJury library, the catalogue that sets out to hold every car ever made — production, prototype and concept alike. The record places its introduction in 1998. The photography on this page is hotlinked from Wikimedia Commons under an open licence, with the photographer credited on every frame.
To read the Volvo S80 properly it helps to place it in its decade. The 1990s were the decade of refinement — airbags and ABS became universal, Japanese build quality set the world standard, and the modern SUV segment was effectively invented. Any car launched into that world was shaped by it — by what materials, engineering and regulation allowed, and by what buyers of the day demanded. Its direct contemporaries in this catalogue, introduced within three years of it, include the Lexus Lexus IS, the Ford Ford Focus, the Saab Automobile Saab 9-3 — the cars a buyer of the period would actually have cross-shopped.
On paper, the Volvo S80 reads like this: the record lists its engine as 2.0 litre / L straight-five engine / I5 turbocharger / turbo (Petrol engine / petrol) / 2.3 L Volvo_Modular_engine#B5234T7 / B5234T7 Turbocharger / turbo I5 (petrol engin; kerb weight is recorded at 1605 -; drive goes through 5-speed Volvo M56 manual transmission / manual / 5-speed Volvo M65 manual / 4-speed GM 4T65-E transmission / GM 4T65 AWD automatic transmission / automatic / 5-speed Aisin AW55-50/; the layout is Transverse engine / Transverse Front-engine, front-wheel-drive layout / Front engine / front-wheel drive or four-wheel drive. Every figure above is a manufacturer specification carried by the Wikipedia infobox or the open Wikidata record for this model — nothing on this page is estimated, and where a source is silent the row simply does not appear.
Within Volvo Cars's own catalogue the Volvo S80 sits alongside the Volvo 140 Series (1966), the Volvo 142, the Volvo 145 (1967), the Volvo 164. The record names the Volvo 940 / Volvo 960 / Volvo S90 Sedan as its predecessor and the Volvo S90 II as its successor, fixing its place in the model line's chronology. Design is credited to Doug Frasher / Peter Horbury. Assembly is recorded at ubl |Sweden: Torslanda (Torslandaverken) |Canada: Halifax (VHA) |Malaysia: Shah Alam (SMA).
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