Start with what the Volvo F85 is: a car with Volvo ohv I6 diesel engine, built from 1965 to 1979, in the decade that gave the world the pony car and the mid-engined supercar. What it meant takes a little longer.
The hardware
The engine is Volvo ohv I6 diesel engine. On the scales it comes to 12500 kg – 25000 kg. These are manufacturer figures carried by Wikipedia and Wikidata, not road-test measurements.
Family and rivals
In the Volvo line-up the Volvo F85 has a clear place: it replaced the Volvo Brage / Volvo Viking; it handed the line to the Volvo F6. The cars a buyer would have weighed it against include the Ford Transit, the Ford Bronco, the Nissan Silvia. Its Volvo stablemates include the Volvo 144 and the Volvo 264 TE.
Owning one today
There is no federal ownership record for the Volvo F85 — it predates the complaint database or was never sold in the United States — so MotorJury publishes no running-cost figure for it. For a car of this age the price is set by the collector market and the condition of the individual example, not by a formula.