The Volvo S80 is a 4-door saloon from Volvo, built from 1998 to 2016, when airbags, anti-lock brakes and Japanese build quality became the world standard. Under the bonnet: 2.0 . Doug Frasher / Peter Horbury drew it.
The background
The Volvo S80 is an executive car produced by the Swedish manufacturer Volvo Cars from 1998 to 2016 across two generations. It took the place of the rear-wheel-drive S90 as Volvo's flagship sedan. The first generation (1998–2006) was made available for the 1999 model year. It has since been built at the Torslanda Works in Gothenburg, Sweden, with a few 1999 model year cars for the North American market built at Volvo's Halifax Assembly plant.
Unlike most Volvo models, it did not have a station wagon version for its first generation. The second generation (2006–2016) was released in 2006 for the 2007 model year. It has an estate version, the third generation of the Volvo V70. In June 2007, the S80 scored the highest "good" rating in the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) crash test performance for frontal, side, and rear impacts, earning it the IIHS Top Safety Pick. The model was replaced by the second generation S90 in the later half of 2016.
The engineering
Power comes from 2.0 other versions carried different engines, listed in the specification table below. It weighs 1605 -. It shifts through a 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 wheelbase is 2791 mm. These are manufacturer figures carried by Wikipedia and Wikidata, not road-test measurements.
Where it sits
Its family tree is legible: it took over from the Volvo 940 / Volvo 960 / Volvo S90 Sedan; its successor was the Volvo S90 II; assembly was at ubl |Sweden: Torslanda (Torslandaverken) |Canada: Halifax (VHA) |Malaysia: Shah Alam (SMA). Its contemporaries in the catalogue — the Lexus IS, the Ford Focus, the Saab Automobile Saab 9-3 — show what else the money bought that year. Its Volvo stablemates include the Volvo 144 and the Volvo 264 TE.
What it costs now
The money question first: $13,300–$29,000 is the typical asking range today, and running it — fuel and maintenance at its age — costs about $3,317–$6,253 a year. Insurance sits around $1,490–$2,520 a year. The figures are class-level estimates from the federal record, with the formula on the methodology page; the model-year pages carry complaints, recalls and repair costs year by year.