£300 for a working car with an MOT in 2023?! You've already won!

I really love these “top gear” style videos on here, keep up the good work Lawrie!

I started to walk along the Lincolnshire Coast towards Skegness once, but after a while decided that actually arriving at Skegness would spoil the walk, so I turned around and went home for a cuppa.

The bulb out warning light being on every time you start is normal, it goes off the first time you hit the brake so it can check the brake light bulbs. Those volvo's where good cars, my grandfather had a 440 and my mum had a 460 back in the day.

Why watch Harry Metcalf drive a Lamborghini to the French Riviera when you can see Lawrie in an old Volvo drive to Skegness!

Normal that the lights come on on Swedish cars of this vintage. All my dad’s Saabs did this - daytime running lights are obligatory in Sweden . My 2004 9-5 however doesn’t. So good to see you Matt and Morgan out and about again. 😂 This was a riot. Thanks guys 👍 As for the modern Volvo, it seems like most modern cars the driving experience is just… dull. No feedback from the car. As you said Lawrie « I feel detached from it ». Says it all really. 440 for me any day !

The lights totally is a Volvo thing, welcome to the ownership!

Cars in sweden must always have running lights on so the lights turn on when you start the engine.

Skeggy in February is dire. The Pier was longer when first built but it fell down in a storm. Used to be a theatre at the end of it.

My Grandma had a 440, in light blue. It was her first and last own car. She had it for 20 years and she loved it.

Lawrie is doing top gear challenges now.

440s are pretty comfortable and really good at being an unobtrusive car. While i think it's really a good car, it was also the first car i would not buy for the boredom factor, simply because i do not need an unobtrusive car in my life that i can drive every single day without getting a bit annoyed with noise, vibrations, effort it takes to drive it and such things. I prefer driving the 340. 340 is great, and has the best seats of all cars i've tried.

Good old Skeggy, serving the important duty of making Mablethorpe look better than it really is.

You can use the Volvo as your winter beater, create lots of videos repairing and learning new skills or just sell it on for a profit without doing anything.

No, the lights do come on the 440 when you turn it on. I had one. The coolent issues though, they didn't do that out of the factory, nor was the rust factory spec. Volvo 440 when new, the early versions, were comfortable, quiet smooth. I now drive a 2019 V90 D4.

Great comparison between hire/ buy. I'm glad you included the insurance cost, as this always bugs me when people buy cheap cars on youtube. But don't explain how they get around insurance. Buying a cheap car for a holiday appeals, but then I run a 2018 Suzuki swift sport as a daily, so it would be foolish to not enjoy it... my other car is a skoda fabia 1.4 3 cylinder diesel Good video, btw did morgan payout for the insurance reduction waiver?

Lane assist is terrifying in motorway roadworks when they've not fully burned off the old white lines. My works hire car tried to steer me and a colleague into some armco because it had a shit fit 😂 cool tech but you've got to be clued up on how it works!

Super video as always, great addition to the fleet of vehicles. Not a fan of the automation in modern cars either. The lights are indeed a Volvo thing that you can't turn them off, this is due to it being law in Sweden for them to be on anytime of day.

The 440 and 480 share the same platform, meaning while the 480 might remind you of a CRX in terms of looks, it drives like a 440. It also has Renault engines which were adjusted in Weissach by Porsche and the rear axle is from Lotus, which is one hell of a weird combination for a car like this. My uncle had a 440 from new for over 15 years or so, then he switched to a VW Polo 9N which he gave back after having trouble all the time and ended up with Kia Picantos (now on his 2nd), as Volvo didn't produce affordable small cars anymore. As for the modern one: It's not so much the car specifically as new cars in general which just miss my taste. Overall I'm unexited to begin with, since they're more or less the same bar very few exceptions. Being indifferent about something rather expensive means every annoying detail just makes it feel worse, while I wouldn't care about it if I'd buy the same car in 20 years for a few hundreds. The only thing I really hate are all those screens and driving assists. Nobody with half a braincell would type something on their phone while driving, but somehow it's acceptable to stare at a screen to type in your desired temperature and what-not. The assist systems are IMO dangerous, because they just don't work reliable. I once test drove a car with a brutal lane assist to the point where it almost crashed me into a barrier at a construction site because it wanted to stick to the white lines rather than the (somewhat dirty) yellow ones. Since it's gonna work fine (or not at all) 99% of the time, you don't expect some force going trough the steering wheel seemingly at random.

Your overheating could be to do with E10 fuel. We found out by putting a bit more water in the radiator it's fine.

I'm a big advocate for the 400 series, provided it's not rusty lol 😅 I see a 400 I click ❤

I had a 440 years ago after having a 340, i gave the 440 away as i didn't like it as much as the 340. A 1985 340 now lives in my garage as the weird car that not many people want to save but i love the old school wallowy suspension for wafting round the lanes, (very slowly as it's a 1.4dl). Mines called Betty after the original long term owner

I have a old s80 and S40 love them .🤗

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I would hire one, sorry but having creature comforts like heating is a must now days. Also not having to worry about the thing blowing up is also a good piece of mind when your on holidays.

If you think Skegness is grim... you need a trip to Jaywick - only in the mid/late 1970s they started to install mains water, sewage and drainage.

There is one good thing about the 440 its green and more environmentally friendly than any newer car on the road on finance including the electric cars as the new cars still need to shake off their production carbon footprint.

In the 90's my mother's friend who was a distant aunt of mine had a volvo wagon , it stayed in the driveway not running and it was fairly new at the time.

The Volvo is nice, but I think I'd probably have the Volvo given the option.

Your Volvo's lights being on could be that it has daytime running lights. I believe all Volvos had them, but I'm not sure how long ago they started. Over here in Canada all cars have them since the early 90's.

You were a bit hard on Skeggy! It is what it is, and does it extremely well in my opinion!😀

That 440 seems like a LMMons car!

To fix the thermometer in car place another negative terminal to the chassis I have a 440 and had the same issue

Take a group of newish cars and remove the badges. Can you name the manufacturer and model even if you have the physical car available? Then take a number of silhouettes of 1970s era UK cars and you should be able to name all of them. Cars were really different then and easily identifiable. That says a lot.

funniest thing I've seen all week Matt getting annoyed at Lawrie talking up the perks of sleeping in a car

I imagined that Matt walked away after the 7 seconds of silence saying "A-hole!" in a very agitated tone. The 440 was a white goods of a car, bland, boring but did everything it needed to with the added bonus of comfy seats.

the lights on when the ignition its a Volvo thing as in Sweden it has been a law requirement for a while. and that has a Renault engine in it 99%

Was the 440 designed using only an Etch a Sketch, and with it, flat panes of glass

Skeg in winter - far underreaches the low expectations laid upon it. Not only that there is **** cold wind coming in from the east. Not much change in the summer to be honest. As for old Volvos - the 440 series is not exactly the high point of Volvoness, you really need to look at something like a v760R or v860v (especially if you can find one of the ex-Swedish plod mobiles with that gorgeous V8.....)

In my experience most attractions in England are quantum. Really good, until they are observed.

I can really see the size difference of the 2 vehicles despite only being 28 years apart. Can't even see the 440 in the rear window of the V90.

The closed captions say julie the VULVA 😲😲

I have to be honest, this made me absolutely roar with laughter!! 😂😂😂 On a more serious note, I really hope you're able to restore that 440, it definitely deserves to be saved. 🙂 Did someone mention Festival Of The Unexceptional? 😉

Modern Volvo cars are lovely, but that is a fine motor vehicle. Volvo have always had a soft spot in my heart, especially with legends like the T5. I am fascinated by The northern European guys do with the old red blocks with massive turbos, massive horsepower, even the Volvo Penta boat engines. I think if I was to get a turbo brick that isn’t a 850 replica touring car. It would probably be a old 740 or even a 240 with more Turbo than engine, but I am a masochist As others have said any car below £1000 now is a win my little diesel Fabia was just over £1000. You can get one for less than 1500 even three grand now and now it’s starting to get tired. I need to put about that amount in just to keep it going.

The title sounds like a segment from top gear.

you could get away with wirebrushing the rust to mettle and primer and paint over it should look ok

I like the 440 my first car was a 440 I still drive a Volvo S80 2002 love it to bits!

Always buy over hiring if you can! Skegness beachfront taught me what 'bracing' really means, so if you did sleep in the Volvo, you are quite mad! Trust you used Car Vertical to check your Volvo hadn't been used in racing, was stolen, still had finance on it....... Thanks Lawrie! 🙏🙏

That sausage made a crunch like biting into an apple.... that ain't right....

Yes I would buy an old car rather than renting a car that is over complicated for it's own good.

@bbc give these men Top Gear!

Hey! Whats wrong about the VW Beetle. I love mine. 1963 Bug - Helga.

I don’t know why but I kind of like the 440 because it’s quite literally just a car. Ask a child to draw a car and he’s more than likely going to draw a boxy 4-door sedan. Morgan was both wrong and right when he said it’s a boring car. It’s quite literally so boring that it’s fun.

lol , my daily is a XC70 & i have a 760 in the fleet .. i often ask myself which volvo i will take ... BTW the temp gauge issue might be the sensor , but more common is corroded wiring , as for the heater matrix .. i really hope it's easier than the 700series ( remove entire dash assembly to get to it ) .. good luck

Welcome to Julie

That particular chippy is REALLY bad, considering there's about half a dozen others within eyesight of the roundabout, you'd think they would try harder. As for the better route, if you have space for the car, then buying is always the better option in my head, I have a similar conundrum coming up later in the year actually. I need a small trailer to carry stuff for our holiday, I was going to hire one, but it actually turns out cheaper to buy a used one, take it away for the week and then resell it or even give it away after.

Budget top gear?

wahaha that dinner is really funny moment 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

You have to be over 70 to look right in a volvo. Especially that old 440. But I believe it's a French engine...so of course it will over heat !!! Morgans description of the 440 is spot on however. Even if he is somewhat reminiscent of " Tim, nice but Dim"

The 440 im sure we have seen in a previous video 😉😉 with a very coy lawrie being very vague about it lol My dad had a 440 that i was suppised to have as a first car and i drove a handful of times in L plates, Unfortunately before i passed my test it developed several issues which meant it was gotten rid of and i ended up with a 97 corsa and dad had an omega instead lol really need to keep it, id love another one but not suitable for the ever expanding family lol

M.o.t expired bk in 17 December 22.. So not a bargain at £300 in 2023 and if u got it insured for a daily basis it be worth the while as ur only got £20 to spend... What about the fuel so ur over the £500. But I do like to watch these funny videos 😂😂 keep them coming

Why was Matt punished by having to stay with Lawrie and not staying in the room with Morgan?

A bit of Skegvegas, spent far too much time there and wouldn't eat from that chippy. 🤣

Epic

I had the 440 easily the best car I ever owned

old topgear-esk vibes

No, obviously you would go by train. Time travel back to the 1980s and take a pair of class 20s or a 37/0...

Still bad neighbor etiquette to not leave a note.

I had a new Fabia on loan with Lane Assist, and it's a truly weird experience! I drove from Ipswich to Bury, and I turned it off before I'd driven 5 miles! Yes, the thought that there will be those that rely on this to keep them out of trouble is terrifying! 😮

For a *lazy drivers* mention alone, you deserve your like. That pandemic should be cured, before any stupid bloodcells.. #roads4drivers

How did you get Suggs from Madness to hire a Volvo? 😎

Where on earth do you find these cars?!?

When will you have your Morris Minor up and running and is your Rodin going ask well and what a beautiful volo

with that £500 you can just make it there with a taxi from where i live and still better then my dad when ge got a rover with a blown head for £800 oh well not my problem

Volvo 850 is one of the best 90s cars, Volvo 440 is one of the worst.

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