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"I've got this theory that there is a Volvo in any sane person's future" ¬James May.

The turbo on this car is 100% gone. That is not normal.

1985 Volvo 740 GLE Turbo Diesel: The official car of the driver who thinks (and brags about it all of the time) that 300,000 miles is just "breaking it in."

“I know you have adult art of Susie from Deltarune” came outta nowhere lol

Your boy dressed to the nines in all denim is an absolutely perfect icon of this car...then all of those people stuck behind him while he's driving are like gtfo of my way!

Black smoke and no throttle responce means that the turbo said goodbye... These engines (as long as not overheated) are really sturdy and have some torque, tot speaking bout the numbers but about what Your butt will tell You. Properly tuned this sweedish brick can really put a smile on one's face ;) Greetings from Poland ;)

Volvo gooner here. Never dealt with the diesels but all of the 240/740/940 were and are truly fantastic cars. (Have three which share the driveway with much newer cars but still have their place.). The capability for power and performance is there (and well documented) but even if you just wanted a tractor for a daily driver, they're still absolutely wonderful, charming cars.

I had a 760gle with the hpt 2.3 4 speed manual with electronic overdrive. Silver over red leather interior. Fuel pump, air intake, turbo upgrade.....300bhp. It was immense fun, reliable, comfortable, everything worked.

My dad ordered an 82 Oldsmobile Delta 88 with the diesel. That engine never needed anything. It was traded off at 120k with zero issues believe it or not. The trans gave up the ghost at 80k. One of the biggest issues was the lack of knowledge (most owners) on how to take care of the diesel . The car was great on fuel and if you rolled into it on a hill it would smoke like a Peterbilt.

The D24T is a VW/Audi engine (Volvo tried to make it sound more fancy by calling it an Audi engine) based on their 4-cylinder diesel, with two more cylinders added on. Unfortunately they didn't really upgrade the cooling and oiling systems to match the greater displacement, so the combination of short trips where the engine didn't get up to full operating temperature and long 7500 mile intervals between oil changes (OK today, but not on 1980s dino oil!) led to many of these having an early demise and a reputation for unreliability. But the same engine used in VW Transporter vans in Europe, where it would be left running for hours, was much more reliable. I had an even more rare 1980 Audi 5000 with the 5-cylinder non-turbo version of VW's diesel. It was very slow, but got 35-40 MPG, and it had excellent ride and handling.

That last line goes hard. "Waiting to be desired" is such a powerful human condition

"It will stand in the way of you moving from your parents home." Not even 10 seconds in and Mr. Regular basically summed up my life. Equal parts impressive and sad. Well done.

The back window is so upright it barely gets wet in the rain. It's a bug hunk of steel, vast for not so much. And beloved by all youngsters now over here. We had one of these when they still where the car of choice for the moving salesman. It was glorious.

The LF9 was not a conversion of the Chevy small block. It was from the Oldsmobile Rocket 350, what they had deteremined to be the strongest of their gas blocks (not that it was enough). GM made four engine families all in 350 cid displacements.

I worked at Volvo. They didn't like those D24 VW diesels (at ALL!) so they went out and made the Volvo whiteblock D5. ❤

The “official car of” is strong in this one

Sick. My parents had an 81 240 Diesel manual 5 speed. Good ol Swedish lead sled. Oil pump failed was the reason why my folks gave up on it. They bought a 85 240 DL gas wagon with a manual 5 speed after. Took me and the family all over America.

Smokey and the Septic Tank Fetish

These are surprisngly sought after amongst RWD Volvo enthusiasts here in the UK.

I love the American market headlights on this thing.

A Volvo review. I better not hear any foolishness here...

I just started seeing a dental hygienist. Thanks for the conversation idea!

The most astounding feature of this vehicle is the thought that the year I was born, somebody stood in front of this car at a dealership and said "This. This is the vehicle choose to show off my new promotion with."

I owned a gas 87 740 GLE Wagon and the interior shots bring back a lot of memories of road trips and breakdowns (often on said road trips).

The 2 minutes after the ad is the most insane thing I have ever heard from this channel so far please keep up with this humor 😭

It’s a mashup of 99 Luftballons and Dancing Queen.

Iv owned 2 240s out of all the cars iv owned my Volvos were my favorite so classy reliable and limitless possibility. The b230ft is the swedish 2jz

Also this car reminds me of my mom's old 1986 Audi 5000S diesel. It was a 5 speed manual and couldn't climb a hill to save it's life...or anyone else's.

As a Swede I have never even seen an automatic 740 and only a handful of diesels. I've seen a few automatic 940's though.

As the owner of a 269k mile 1989 740GL , I am insanely jealous of your lack of a sunroof

This very car is the ideal car to learn to drive stick in. The clutch and gearbox are utterly indestructible, and the molasses-in-a-blizzard-like acceleration means you need to learn to plan well ahead with when and why you want to shift.

volvo made the last diesel last week. it was a blue xc90 rip diesel

I would love to hear you do an hour long documentary about the Oldsmobile diesel engines. There really isn't any in depth documentaries about the engines and how they affected the way Americans viewed diesel engines for years to come.

BDUS & BCGs? You’ve just earned an army veteran’s respect.

I had an '84 760GLE TD for four years and it was fine. Granted, it was new when I bought it, but it happily motored along and would easily cruise at 100+ mph. Well, it was also a manual; Volvo's 4-speed + electric OD. There's no way I'd drive a 2.4 liter Diesel with an auto, turbo or not. Mercedes' 300D turbo with an auto is acceptable, but only after the turbo wakes up, which takes a little longer in Colorado because of the altitude. Off a light, you just nail it to the floor and pray, which is probably the same experience with this 740, even at sea level. Anyway the 760 gave me 4 years of trouble-free use, averaged 30 mpg and only smoked if you lugged it down in OD. It wasn't built to win stoplight grands prix, but it easily kept up with 80's traffic and it was comfortable and secure feeling on the road.

with my experience working on many d24 engines i would say the reason this particular car is so slow and smokes so much is the intake manifold is plugged by the EGR basically choking the engine. i would say the fix would be to clean the intake and delete the egr

Kind of bypassed the popularity of the Gasoline 740 turbos Those were incredible motors, and there's a pretty active enthusiast community for those. The diesels had a pretty awful reputation for both reliability and power.

Those quad 'murica only headlights ❤

I had an 87 740 gas non turbo as my first car in 1996. Charming but unreliable as it got older. The wiring harness would literally turn to powder when you touched it. But when you close the door, it sounded like a bank vault door. Kudos to the original owner for keeping this on the road. It’s not easy, it’s expensive and it’s not reliable.

That VW diesel squeaked out 109hp on its best day, almost 40 years ago. And it’s been all downhill ever since.

Love a 740.

the '85 ad said "the car for people who think" .. shown by the slotted headrest you can look through while backing ..😮😮

Listen, I wear white New Balances because yeah they're dad shoes, and I'M A DAD. I stopped pretending otherwise long ago, and I put white New Balances on my Christmas list EVERY YEAR!

this is basically the next thing to a perpetual motion machine,indestructible if cared for

Car Talk always dunked on these, so many callers phoned into the show with Turbo Diesel problems and Click & Clack promptly told them to give up and get something else.

Posted when I was working on the V8 for my 88 740. Perfect timing. And the Clinton Station reference was spot on.

I’m from Tioga county. Currently living in the UK. I have a 2.4 D5 diesel Volvo XC70 ocean race and when the year 2028 is here I’m bringing it home to Tioga county with me. I have gotten 56.8 mpg with this car, it’s awd and quite unique. It’s a real shame that diesel didn’t work for the states because in many ways.. it’s a lot better.

The engine was not a small block Chevrolet, it was an Oldsmobile 350👈

I like the lathe in your shop. No quick change gears like a real man.

Thank you for the dentist joke. My nose is still stinging from the ejected hot coffee. Needed a good laugh, thanks!

If the Turbodiesel is slow then there is more than likely a vacuum leak. Vacuum comes from a vacuum pump and there's only so much of it. That will mess up the egr, boost control and shifts of the automatic transmission. Egr won't close properly so black smoke, waste gate won't close properly so very little to no boost and the transmission will shift way too early even on kick down. Sound of that engine is beefy and nice

shout out to the cb7 at 9:55. Love those things

The mighty power of DDR diesel! In finland its rare to find one which has driven less than 350 000 miles.

An industrial design professor of mine drove one of these. He loathed any student who had practical knowledge and loved the ones with outlandish ideas and no idea how to achieve their designs. He was a failed architect who ran to academia. This review is spot on.

Just imagine how slow this would be without the turbo. I don't know about the 740 but I have seen NA 240's and that's the definition of slowness.

Mr regular, the ultimate gooner. If you know, you know.

CLINTON NEW JERSEY MENTIONED!!!!

My dad had a '79 Oldsmobile Delta 88 with the diesel engine. He drove it until it hit 400,000 miles or so, and then sold it to the mechanic. Maybe he just happened to get a good one.

Can't help but love it!!!

The official car of: "Hating heavy metal for its lack of musical value while gladly attending progressive jazz festivals"

I am a certified Volvo gooner, I've owned an 850, 940, and 2 240s that had the m47 5 speed manual. I really want either a 240 or 740 diesel

Aside from super cold morning starts,these were wonderful in northern Ontario winters

Wake up to RCR, Technology Connections and Savagegeese release notifs 🔥

I can't stop seeing the bent hood!

I had two 740 turbo wagons in College. I absolutely love these cars. If I ever find a clean black on black turbo wagon with the houndstooth interior and the third row, it will be mine.

Kickass PT Cruiser GT in the background of a couple of those rolling shots.

Take a look what us scandivanians do with those. Throwing big turbos in and tuning the fuel injection. Getting very decent performance

It is handsome! I like the creases and the wheel wells. Nice lines. Interior is very cool.

Thats probobly why they never sold the 850 TDI in the US. Thats definitly the best volvo diesel ever. Good power, great fuel economy and great parts accesibilty in Europe. Im happy to own one

The GM 350 diesel was a Oldsmobile 350, not a Chevy 350, they're different engines with a different V angle.

The smokescreen of Volvo 😂

4:56 I'm so happy to hear someone else goes through the same shit. Shoe shopping was a nightmare till I tried someone NB and Ultraboost

The problem with your Volvo 740 diesel is it’s nearly 40 years old and looks like it’s got blocked injectors, with that lack of acceleration and James Bond smokescreen.

6:48 I actually worked there!

As a P2 s90 owner, I wanted a 740 TIC so bad for so long, so I finally bit the bullet and bought the nicest turbo diesel I could find. A Mercedes Benz E300 and haven’t looked back.

wish I lived stateside again atm, I'd love to see you do more bike stuff? And WOW straight up handsfree bottom confession at 5:19

"Volvo 740 Turbo Diesel; the official car of someone whose aspirations are matched only by their embarrassingly short lack of tolerance for project creep."

The whole GM diesel debacle was partly GM's fault, and partly the fault of the US consumer who was not used to driving and maintaining a diesel engine. Dad had a 82 Toronado that he put 170K miles on. Rebuilt the pump once and cleaned injectors. He used good fuel, additives when cold, pluged it in at night in the winter, let it idle all day at work when it was bitter cold (didn't burn 1/2 pint of fuel) changed oil, filters and fluids and maintained the car regularly and just treated it like a diesel, not a gas engine. GM sold lots of diesels in Iowa and most people never had major problems, even though GM didn't do the engine the right way to begin with. GM O/D transmissions on the other hand...

The Mercedes at 14:55 road-raging lol

Awesome car. Love Em classic Volvos. Always thought this cars were cool and still do. 😊❤

the new balance 550 is the volvo 240 of sneaker culture

That bridge at 17:22 ish could be called the Hank Hill - that's one narrow urethra i tell you what 🤣

I used to have a 90’ 740 GL, burgundy, it had a naturally aspirated, fuel injected 2.3 4cycl. It had 3 hamster power. I could fishtail it on wet pavement

Funnily, I was just checking your channel last week to see if you'd ever reviewed a diesel Volvo. I know you've reviewed Lincoln/BMW diesels (which my father owned), Mercedes diesels (which my grandfather owned), and VW diesels (which I own), but I've been waiting for a Volvo diesel video (which my uncle owned) - my family has a thing for Euro diesels

Just wanted to let you know. You are a real human, and that, that is rare these days.

My first car was a 740 gle. I loved it. Im on my fourth Volvo now.. and yes I've iwned 2 Saabs

i havea regular gle and i love it dearly

I had to look up some of these abstract Gen-Z references in the beginning. Nice.

I have a 1991 Volvo 740 Turbo sedan grey. ( Genevieve)auto AW71 300,000 km. Runs strong!

I'll never tired of these kinds of reviews full of anachronistic references. But then again, I'm just about the same age as you.

14:58 Mercedes guy is either drunk or completely entranced by the beautiful volvo

Finally a proper car

“Throw a Cummins in it and roll some real American coal! Rabble rabble rabble” 😂

What in gods name with the dentist chair thoughts! You are all of us, but free!

kind of a charming car, I wish we had more diesel cars in USA and Canada.

French youtuber/alcoholic Farine de Blé is currently 2jz swapping one of these for as cheap as possible in his gravel driveway, it's very entertaining

BDU's + BCG's = no visit to the clinic after visiting back home for you!

The official car of getting charged 50 dollars from College Hunks because you forgot to turn in your uniform on your first and last day.

Cool! Another Volvo. 740 is pretty good car :)