When is your 480 happiest?
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Drazyl
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When is your 480 happiest?
A bit of fun!
SAAB 9-3 2.0t
(Previously) [b]1994 480 GT[/b] - Metallic Green...
(Previously) [b]1994 480 GT[/b] - Metallic Green...
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robin_xr4i
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My 480 is happiest when i am cruising at 30 mph about at 3,000 rpm off boost, then booting it and feeling a full hit of 14 psi........... love it.
well at the moment the clutch just slips all the time but you get the idea
well at the moment the clutch just slips all the time but you get the idea
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My old Volvo 480 // Type: Turbo // Year: 1992 // Colour: 305 - Black Metallic // Engine: B18FT // Mods: Rich Mod, Recirculating Piston Dump Valve, Pi Lowering Springs, Induction Kit
My old Volvo 480 // Type: Turbo // Year: 1992 // Colour: 305 - Black Metallic // Engine: B18FT // Mods: Rich Mod, Recirculating Piston Dump Valve, Pi Lowering Springs, Induction Kit
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levin
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Cornering freak here 
. Love mountain roads, etc.
Never thought the 480 had such a great balancing and handling capabillities. Excelent!
. Love mountain roads, etc.Never thought the 480 had such a great balancing and handling capabillities. Excelent!
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My Volvo 480
[b]Name[/b]: Volverine // [b]Type[/b]: TURBO // [b]Year[/b]: 1989 // [b]Colour[/b]: Black Metallic // [b]Engine[/b]: B18FT (1.7), Manual // [b]Mods[/b]: Pollux Black Metallic; Voodoo III MBC[/size]
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My Volvo 480
[b]Name[/b]: Volverine // [b]Type[/b]: TURBO // [b]Year[/b]: 1989 // [b]Colour[/b]: Black Metallic // [b]Engine[/b]: B18FT (1.7), Manual // [b]Mods[/b]: Pollux Black Metallic; Voodoo III MBC[/size]
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Milosz_480
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Milosz_480
- 480 Is my middle name
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Handling was designed by Lotus afterall, that must be somethinglevin wrote:Never thought the 480 had such a great balancing and handling capabillities. Excelent!
no car, why drive a car if you can fly SAAB
Previous:
-Mitsubishi Lancer GLXi '93 LPG powered
-'92 480 ES red 'Sports Edition'
-'87 480 ES red
pics>>> http://photobucket.com/albums/v304/mayah480/
Previous:
-Mitsubishi Lancer GLXi '93 LPG powered
-'92 480 ES red 'Sports Edition'
-'87 480 ES red
pics>>> http://photobucket.com/albums/v304/mayah480/
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Brasco
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Making B-regged 911 owners feel embarrassed on the M6 Toll!!! Haha! 
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No (or hardly any) body-roll makes me a happy customer, I love my fast corners. In my not-so-very-extensive experience with different models of cars, this is my first time actually experiencing the "seat-of-the-pants" driving. You can really feel the car getting its sideways tendencies when you're pushing it hard. Credit to the levels of grip my current tyres (Goodyears) are giving me, it feels like they're flexing sideways before giving up and actually sliding. Which I've only done once now (well, once accidentily ), on wet road, and again I could feel it go before it did and so I had no problems correcting. In short, I wish I were a bit more monitarily blessed, so I could afford to slide it all over the place all the time and not care about the tyres smoking up along with the petrol 
), on wet road, and again I could feel it go before it did and so I had no problems correcting. In short, I wish I were a bit more monitarily blessed, so I could afford to slide it all over the place all the time and not care about the tyres smoking up along with the petrol -
martinholmesuk
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chigo
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Hey guys... take a look at this...
Putting Volvo's large bonnet to use for a good reason --> makes this volvo happiest. PS-> Can anyone identify the model in this pic??
(Just kidding of course
) -- my 480 is happiest when i kick in third and step on it (gass mal-pjanca - for any Maltese people on the board )
Putting Volvo's large bonnet to use for a good reason --> makes this volvo happiest. PS-> Can anyone identify the model in this pic??
(Just kidding of course
) -- my 480 is happiest when i kick in third and step on it (gass mal-pjanca - for any Maltese people on the board )Red 1990 Volvo 480ES
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robin_xr4i
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.............should get it laquered into the bonnet! and correct me if i am wrong but it's a 850 or 940?chigo wrote:Hey guys... take a look at this...
Putting Volvo's large bonnet to use for a good reason --> makes this volvo happiest. PS-> Can anyone identify the model in this pic??
(Just kidding of course
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My old Volvo 480 // Type: Turbo // Year: 1992 // Colour: 305 - Black Metallic // Engine: B18FT // Mods: Rich Mod, Recirculating Piston Dump Valve, Pi Lowering Springs, Induction Kit
My old Volvo 480 // Type: Turbo // Year: 1992 // Colour: 305 - Black Metallic // Engine: B18FT // Mods: Rich Mod, Recirculating Piston Dump Valve, Pi Lowering Springs, Induction Kit
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levin
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Really? Sorry about the offtopic but do you know where can I get information on that? (PM instead, don't want to deturpate the topicMilosz_480 wrote:Handling was designed by Lotus afterall, that must be somethinglevin wrote:Never thought the 480 had such a great balancing and handling capabillities. Excelent!
)Cheers
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My Volvo 480
[b]Name[/b]: Volverine // [b]Type[/b]: TURBO // [b]Year[/b]: 1989 // [b]Colour[/b]: Black Metallic // [b]Engine[/b]: B18FT (1.7), Manual // [b]Mods[/b]: Pollux Black Metallic; Voodoo III MBC[/size]
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My Volvo 480
[b]Name[/b]: Volverine // [b]Type[/b]: TURBO // [b]Year[/b]: 1989 // [b]Colour[/b]: Black Metallic // [b]Engine[/b]: B18FT (1.7), Manual // [b]Mods[/b]: Pollux Black Metallic; Voodoo III MBC[/size]
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Dan the 480 Man
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I opted for playing with Porsches...altough it's not really Porsches. Just like playing with other cars full stop. They always seem to be quite surprised when the car goes flying past them. I know they don't like it 'cos someone always swerves out the traffic after you 
Bring it awwwn....
Bring it awwwn....
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Sophie
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I like playing with other cars too, but real fun is on little country roads, now that I've had her a few months, I'm getting to know how she handles, and manage to fakely drift round bends, and beat up people driving cars that were built for little roads ie 205 GTi's and GTT's, little farts like Saxo VTS's don't stand a chance. Plus french drivers are useless, and brake before each bend, so that also makes life easy.
480 Turbo > 1989 Graphite Grey
MR2 MK1 > 1989...
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MR2 MK1 > 1989...
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