Coming across a Volvo on the Autobahn is not, a priori, the most exciting encounter in the world, until you discover that this Volvo is not just any model. If ya run into a Volvo 850 T5-R It is more than enough reason to brighten your day, that this unicorn is capable of removing the stickers from sports cars of a certain level is worth telling. And that is why we bring you this video today, well this hypervitaminated Volvo 850 is capable of flying down the Autobahn and humiliating more than one RS6 and M5.
The Volvo 850 can be considered as the typical Volvo. A car with a grid design, with a clearly familiar philosophy and with an approach that has little or nothing to do with sports. A priori of course. And it is that In the ’90s, the Swedish manufacturer decided to launch an ordeal at its rivals, showing that they not only knew how to make family and safe cars, thus giving life to the Volvo 850 T5-R.
That car, available in both saloon and family bodywork, enjoyed a turbocharged inline 5-cylinder engine capable of originally developing 243 hp. Nicknamed the “flying brick”, the Volvo 850 even officially competed in championships such as the BTCC. And as if such a plant were not enough, Has someone thought of pushing the inline 5 of a T5-R to the limit to extract a whopping 480 hp and 600 Nm thanks to improvements such as a new turbocharger, a larger intercooler, new injectors, etc.
You can see the result of this experiment for yourselves in the video that you have above, and we already anticipate that just by listening to the melody of this 5-cylinder it is already worth pressing play. When older, it is also worth seeing how this engine revs up, a mechanic that now allows this Volvo to fly well above 260 km/h to which your marker is limited and make true heart attack recoveries.
