Test drives Volvo S40 1996 - 2000 sedan

The S40/V40 family is a new lineup of the Swedish company Volvo. Cars are produced at the Verkar factory in the Netherlands. The four -door sedan is indicated by the S40 index, a five -door station wagon - V40. Gamma of engines: gasoline with a working volume of 1.8; 2.0 liters and 1.9-liter diesel with turbocharged. Gearboxes - five -speed mechanical or four -speed automatic. Two ...

Giving a family car sports features is not so easy, unless, of course, we are talking about external attributes - spoilers, threshold lining and other hitch. The most difficult thing is to maintain an acceptable balance between sports and practicality. An ordinary driver who has a temperamental car should not experience inconvenience. In addition to outstanding driving qualities, give him lightness ...

A year and a half ago, when in Russia they only waited for the new S 40, the autopilot with the help of one of its readers got this car for a test from Spain. The representative office of Volvo was very surprised and, perhaps, that is why we were offered a new, charged version of S 40 for the official premiere of the model for ...

It is more difficult for any object to have instructions more difficult. Guide to action. Life is our complex thing, but at birth we do not get a common guide or instructions for special cases. Attempts of their compilation were: the Gospel, Qur'an, Capital, instructions for putting on a condom but what to rely on if Marxism turned out to be a dogma, ...

This time the goal of our test is not a presentation of new cars. All of them have already been presented in our magazine. Strictly speaking, the models collected for the test are not even classmates, only front -wheel drive unites them. Our task is to compare handling, stability and safety of cars of very common brands in Russia and choose ...