Volvo 480 Club Europe

Trust Gavin to put together a favourable article, the wedgie even makes up part of Petrolblog's architecture:
https://petrolblog.com/major-waffle/

So does the car drive like a RWD? (I have only ever driven a 480 on the road so I don't really know how to compare it, although I did learn to drive in our Ginetta G26)

I still maintain Gavin needs to do a retrospective on the 480; He called it back in 2011, 9 years on, was he right?

jifflemon wrote: ↑

Thu Jul 09, 2020 11:19 am

I still maintain Gavin needs to do a retrospective on the 480; He called it back in 2011, 9 years on, was he right?

That's an idea, Ill ask him about it when he returns to writing (apparently he is on a hiatus at the moment)

oh and in case he's wondering, he was right!

It's a front wheel drive, and a good one. But it is not nor drives like a rear wheel driven car. For that a driveshaft to the rear is needed.
This does not mean the 480 is less or not good. But it's fwd not a rwd period.

Nobody by the way will ever have discussions how a rwd drives like a fwd.

The whole idea comes from the time when rwd cars had live rear axles and were nasty tail swaggers, and the first fwds were laid out with huge under-steer to protect the bland driver for errors, at least that's what the wise men from the car manufacturers thought.