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MattB

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Sold the contour yesterday and picked this up today. 1996 Silver Volvo 850 Turbo (dirty). I had contour 8 years and i thought it was pretty fast, but man when that turbo kicks in, im planted in my seat. Plus it has all the room we need for our growing family. I will miss the contour it was a great car, i just needed to move on.
The contour at its new home....


The volvo at its new home :)!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!





We are VERY happy, We are a family of Volvos :)

Matt
 
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How ironic. I am selling my 95 850 Turbo and just bought my 2000 SVT. I certainly agree with you that the 850 Turbo really scoots. I know they run about the same 0-60 and 1/4 mile but the Volvo feels faster. However I know the SVT has a higher top speed. I could never urk more than 130mph out of the Volvo but my first SVT hit 150mph completely stock.
 
Pen_Two said:
150 eh? I could have sworn the SVT website states 143 max...
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Yes it does, but that doesn't mean the speedometer didn't read 150mph. Every car I have ever owned reads high at those mph's too. I tested all of my cars because I have access to a radar gun that is with 1/2 a mph. :) My SVT reads 112mph when I am going over 120mph. And the faster you go, the farther off the speedo is.


And congrats on your new car!
 
MattB said:
Sold the contour yesterday and picked this up today. 1996 Silver Volvo 850 Turbo (dirty). I had contour 8 years and i thought it was pretty fast, but man when that turbo kicks in, im planted in my seat. Plus it has all the room we need for our growing family. I will miss the contour it was a great car, i just needed to move on.

We are VERY happy, We are a family of Volvos :)

Matt
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Congrats on the 850! We've enjoyed our '97 850 wagon (my wife mostly drives it). It is my first Volvo, and I have found it surprisingly easy to work on (although I'm not looking forward to replacing the A/C evaporator :blackeye: ).
 
CarpePoon said:
Which is dependent on resistance. If you have a hill or a strong tailwind you can break the 143 mark pretty easily.
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I had a long downhill run and then a completely flat stretch for about 1 mile. It was observed on the Spedo at 150mph during the flat mile stetch. I cannot verify that it is accurate but it was observerd.

In my 944 Turbo I can say definitively that at 150mph indicated on the spedo you are doing 150mph. I verified the speed with a GPS and its indicated speed matched my speedo within 1mph.
 
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