Interesting review and article from AB Classic on the coolest cars of the 1980's. Most of these cars are classics and were benchmark cars at the time. Excuse the Google translation on some cases!!
The coolest cars of the 80's
The coolest cars of the 80's are Mercedes 300 CE (124) Peugeot 205 Rallye, Audi 200 Avant, Volvo 480 Turbo and Porsche 928 Clubsport, we find. Typical eighties!
Why could the 80s happen anyway? Who came up with the idea to build everything from plastic, cars, music, photo frames? And why did with half the society? After the revolution of '68, it was million young people to beige. The boys shaved to gel smeared his hair and büffelten for school. Because they did not want to India, they were in the boardrooms. Uprising of nerd, revolution with leather ties!
The adults presented claims, it shows on the cars of the time. Mercedes E 230, Audi 100,Volvo 440: That was cool, techno Statements. Peugeot 205 and Porsche 928 S4 were not adapted, but also very typical of the 80s in its design infatuation. Here are five cars that reflect the demands of the era: a Mercedes, has the style and luxury at the highest level. A Peugeot as perfect base for rallying. An Audi to BMW and Mercedes to the fear of God. A Volvo as the finest designer piece in the Golf class. And a Porsche , which they all abhängte.Keep what they promise?
Mercedes 300 CE (124) - Coupé with culture
Cooling is the Mercedes-middle class of the 80 always.As Coupé in Turquoise will even cool.
Apart from the Golf II a car triggers in the German classic scene even less awe than the Mercedes-mid '80s: A car like a childhood friend who was always there. As a classic? First of difficult. The middle-class Mercedes acting extroverted than other Mercedes. The new Mercedes models were more aerodynamic and lighter than before.Design Chief Bruno Sacco had designed all the 124er of the large line down to the details by a geometric figure, the trapeze. Except grille and logos there was no chrome. The only visible difference between 200 D and 300 E: the tailpipes. The new middle class should act in a socially acceptable. A car for all. The proviso was also true for the coupe, by definition, the first among equals. It came in 1987 with wide plastic strips on the side of the market, but was otherwise unremarkable.
Sacco clean shape is now setting the stage for the details that stand out. The line: The coupe is 8.5 centimeters shorter and 5.1 centimeters lower than the sedan. The roof is short, the rear window flat and angled in, as with the sedan. The roof pillar is flush with the rear fender. The basic form is unchanged, but the chubby is gone. The technique: little from the outside to see. A front apron with fluted air intakes is something special, but it may mean this (six-cylinder) or that (air conditioning). Why are the headlights wiper important? A dispensable extra for 524,40 marrow which is striking. They find inside their counterparts on top of the center console: the more switches, the more expensive. Metallic Turquoise, Scheinwerferwischerchen: What stands out is that the little things stand out. A car like all of its model and yet different - that says a lot about how this middle-class Mercedes works, now as then.
300 CE looks more modern than it drives
In the 80s, this technophile decade, Sacco is for status-conscious Mercedes customers from the slogan: functional technology replaces useless chromium. Even luxury needs can be justified rationally. Nowhere is this more visible than in the metallic turquoise Coupé: 300 CE with electrically adjustable leather seats, air conditioning and most other extras - more did not go in January 1989. And yet at first sight stands an almost classless car, only to subtleties as a member of a very upscale recognizable - at very discrete manner. To sit in the car, is of course still to arrive at home. The odometer shows 16,235 km, almost new.The car is easy to estimate. An edge is an edge here, clear 80s lines. It boosts the 40-centimeter-wheel and moving a ship: the suspension softer, the automatic carrier, the power steering sluggish than usual today. Surprise: The Mercedes looks modern, as it drives. Is the C 124 Coupe still a modern car? He's too old, even if we could go with him today without hesitation every season so that from the Arctic Circle to Gibraltar.Recommend him as a classic to the one prowling in the dark winter evenings in the garage?Indeed difficult for there are still too many rotten. But who has a good: keep. Their children will find it really cool in a few years.
Peugeot 205 Rallye 1.9 - small cars with fighting spirit
Small and powerful: Peugeots Braves compact carts 205 is a real poison dwarf.
The spider, the Gauls! Strike in 1987 at the Peugeot 205 GTI equipment and weight radically together and let the result as 205 Rallye 1.9 out of the lion's cage. Whether that was good? And how! Because sometimes say numbers more than 1000 words. As Peugeot 1983 205 presented, the brand is about to collapse. That he will shake up the small car market, no one is aware at that time. Within 15 years, offers Peugeot the 205 with 19 different engines that provide 45-128 PS, send 15 special models to the start, making the 205 the first diesel cars, the crack sales Million, and also experimented with an electric drive. In Germany swamped by customers the Peugeot dealers almost a shack: 1986 is the 205 in this country with 56 081 new registrations the best-selling imported car.The five plants in Europe and factories in Asia and South America produce at full capacity.Result: 5.3 million 205 rolls off the assembly line until 1998, no Peugeot is built more to date. The coolest of the series is the 205 Rallye, the first of three special models, the Peugeot 205 GTI based on the offering. With it, the brand celebrated its rally triumphs with the 205 Turbo 16: two world titles in the legendary Group B (1985-86), two victories in the Paris-Dakar (1987-88) and a second place at Pikes Peak 1987 are the most important international successes.
Visibility and amazing sense of space
White as the summit of Mont Blanc shimmering 205 Rallye in sunlight. Another color did not exist. Maintenance, but: red, namely for the scratch-out! Because the intention of offering a comparison with the 1.9-GTI abgespecktes to 100 kilos of sports equipment, let Peugeot half the equipment away. Nearly 800 kilos empty weight was the goal of slimming.The speck-free 205 Rallye cost around 4,000 marks less than the GTI 1.9. So slim, it can be robbers magnificently along winding Schwarzwaldsträßchen. With 102 hp, the 205 rally is about the same level in terms of performance of the original 1.6er-GTI (105 hp). Who has brought on the highly profiled sport seat behind the wheel in position, sits relatively high and has a superb all-round visibility. Also the feeling of space is surprisingly good. The seats are wide and comfortable, only the seat covers feel thinly as women's tights. But while driving comes to humor. With its short-graded, something hakelig to switching five-speed gearbox the 205 rally sprints faster than an equally old Golf GTI 16V from zero to 100 km / h. It trumpeted the four-cylinder, the eardrums vibrate, and the front wheels tug at the steering like a caged lion on the chain. So you spin it, the Gauls. Thank goodness!
Audi 200 Avant (C3) - middle class with added value
Only gaanz rarely ordered as a combination: Audi 200 Avant C3.
The Audi 200, it seems to go to the Black Forest. A few kilometers in a straight line from Professor Brinkmann's television Hospital carves 30 years later Carsten Ortholf in zermattsilbernen Avant snowy Schauinsland up. Actually, the Freiburg architect wanted a family car that offers enough space for his Hovawartrüden Anouk and even in winter is coming up to the house at 1000 meters altitude. Looking Ortholf remained with the 29th year old Audi depend, to a dealer in Holland offered.First owner, only 70,000 kilometers, all original. Only seven copies of the hatchback sedan with the 182-horsepower five-cylinder are registered with the Federal Motor Vehicle Office.Ortholfs way to classics is unusual - such as the way the Audi in the 80s with the Type 44 / C3 (factory abbreviation for Audi 100 and 200) is traveling. Making its debut in 1982, initially as a four-door sedan, affects the type 44 as a car of the future. Just to show briefly that as a - The honed aerodynamics with a drag coefficient of 0.30 when Saloon and Avant from 0.34 when he revealed in 1981 by a distant for 2000 designed prototype, the Audi at the IAA car can go already in series today. Lightweight, all-wheel drive, which comes in its fundamentals from the VW Iltis, partially and later fully galvanized sheet add up to a technological lead, which brings the competition in a tight spot.
"For the technology you will find almost anything anywhere"
For a then-current 123er-Mercedes or BMW 5 Series, the Audi 100 and even more so his brother aufgebrezelter 200 are modern, almost futuristic. For Ferdinand Piech makes, inspired by the urge to establish Audi as a premium brand in the VW group. The Type 44 is the clearance, even if the image does not even keep up. Audi went up overnight in the upper middle class. Suddenly their cars with four rings logo on boss (doctor) -Parkplätzen.When driving the 200 age is not noted. As hatchback Avant Although practical and well equipped, with over 60,000 Mark at that time but also painfully expensive, he slips silently through the airstream. Accompanied by muted hiss of the five-cylinder turbo runs like a bungee cord at Audi. 230 km / h are no difficulty in it. Snowy slopes of the Black Forest spurt of Avant loose high. Climate control, on-board computer - all you need. Actually missing the modern car, only the airbags. And what if something gets broken? Is there for the big Audi really hardly parts? Tim Wachter from the Frankish run which restored just a guy the same car, newcomers takes away the fear: "Only the sheet in body fittings and replace the interior looks it bad," says the 34-year-old Audi specialist. "For the technology you will find just about anything anywhere. Sometimes all it takes is a little patience." Many have VW Classic and Audi Tradition in stock, another contrast, there are only free traders or as second-hand goods on the Internet - provides the type-44-fan base orientation.
Volvo 480 Turbo - with compact class
Breaks with everything Volvo accounted formerly Volvo 480th
Volvos brick design has long been one of the déjà vu. The brand sold on its brand recognition as well as on passive and active safety. Mid-80s, however, she ventured a model in which everything should be different: basic form, the installation position of the engine, drive axle, electronics, even the naming process. Could that be fine?No, the Volvo 480 failed grandiose. But why? Because Volvo driver did not recognize him (to)? Because he was too cool for the brand, for the time? When the first Volvo with wedge shape / cross-engine / front-wheel drive / Central Electronics / Fantasy combination of numbers in the name came to the dealership, its developers had already tampered with him for eight years. Four-cylinder and manual transmission came from Renault, the engines had to be of Porsche with revised tedious. After America the car did not, in Europe he caused a stir on the other hand.
For the Volvo 480 was unheard impractical. For although four men could comfortably come in to him, handed his boot just for the weekend shopping (350 liters, 660 with the rear seats folded). Tester from time to chalk him to the sill at waist level. Today we love the 480 for its frameless glass tailgate. She makes 480 to Schneewittchensarg Neon decade. For the edgy rear-wheel drive cars, the brand saw fewer and fewer future, but for a modern vehicle layout and an electronic system which links all functions of the car. Volvos complicated naming - only series, then the number of cylinders, then number of doors - should be equal to the mitentsorgt modernization. The move away from the square look worried just the bus designer John de Vries. He designed the avant-garde car in company history: wedge shape, pop-up headlights, coupé doors, but estate rear. Was it so what went wrong?
Edge Volvo with 200 km / h
Nicolas von Wedel (49), owner of the photo Cars, reported that he winks at his 480 Turbo in Lavender Metallic every now and then with one eye. Something to do with electronics.Gladly zicken the LCD bar in the instrument cluster as well as all functions of the onboard computer. Even electronics. Brittle plastic, overburdened transmission, tab processing, meaningless placed switch: Dealing with deficiencies is part of the Volvo 480, since the first cars left the factory in Born, Netherlands. The turbo engine was Volvo actually already put the start of the series, but it came too late - and was too expensive: 38 775 Mark cost a 480 Turbo model in 1990 - a VW Golf GTI 16V 30,210 Mark. Although nine seconds from zero to 100 km / h and 200 km / h top absolutely fine. Only the schwedenschaukelige Volvo feeling earlier days is passé in 480. The Small barely leans into curves, bounces off short bumps, but rumbles through larger potholes. In fast corners the nose pushes outward. Although some hold the 480 for a Honda: The 480 is one of Volvo's classics, precisely because he has broken with the classic Volvo. Only then, at that time he did not arrive. Not at all, because its design would have been too cool for anything. No. You have at Volvo just anything messed up.
Porsche 928 Clubsport - speck-free athletes
Slimmed down to a minimum, but 330 hp plus: Porsche 928 Club Sport.
Sport is in the club at its best, sport helps you lose weight. The proof: 928 Clubsport. So sinewy, strong spurt and austrainiert is no other V8 transaxle squad. And no other Porsche 928 is very sports car. When Porsche 928 Club Sport engineers have saved on weight where it could.Side protection moldings, central locking, cruise control or electric seat adjustment? All deleted.Also insulation, wiring harness and vehicle tools are thinned; Towing, screwdriver, hex crank and ended wrench size 10 to 17 have to do.Approximately 120 kilos they have brought out, and it was worth it: The lightweight, snappy CS fun! A Porsche 928 in the rare and precious, only 19 times built Clubsport version requires rethinking, because the large-Porsche of 70s, 80s and 90s surrounding the image of the technologically most advanced, but saturated Gran Turismo. Most true image, because along with the rest of the luxury equipment usually a four-speed automatic transmission is fitted, the Porsche at that time still the Stuttgart neighbors Mercedes-Benz was shopping.Even the 928 GTS thus acts always something pomadig; He is with 5.4 liters of displacement and impressive 350 hp at technology, performance and features of the highlight of the 928-evolution, which lasted from 1977 to 1995. The 928 Club Sport, 1988-89 offered for less than a year, pointing in the other direction. His career began as a gimmick PS-hungry developers who wanted to show what a 928 in the Sport trim is capable. They were allowed to develop the 928 Club Sport for series production.
928 Clubsport felt differently
He came slimmed on the market, brushed with limited slip differential, a shorter translation and hard Boge dampers on Sport. Forged alloy wheels in a new design for the first time when there was so Clubsport. At the rear were 17-mm spacers, and to accommodate wheels and tires, even the fold of the wing was folded over the top of the wheelhouse. This was very effective but also unobtrusive. How to recognize a 928 Clubsport? The sticker on the fender is not an indication. A real 928 CS is different inside.Under the uninsulated hood, an engine must sit with a special status before the uninsulated bulkhead: Follows the defeated in the block serial number the abbreviation "SP", he is real Clubsport. Revised camshaft with one millimeter longer stroke, modified ignition and injection stuck in it. To 6775 / min instead of up to 6000 routes turns these five-liter four-valve V8 then high. While standing only 320 horsepower in the data sheet, as much as the normal, equally priced 928 S4. But the 320 hp were only the official version. All engineers involved knew that they had made not only for a little more speed to all the trouble. Of course not! But in Weissach they talked to CS rather small. 330 hp plus - more were the CS never conceded by Porsche people. Regardless of the horsepower of the 928 Club Sport is noticeably different. Chippings and stones clacking clearly audible in the wheel arches, the damping is bone dry. Porsche-typical bites the engine only above 3500 / min properly, turns exultant and thundering beyond the 6000 mark and tastes a little while after Penalty. Note: Only with manual transmission revealed the 928 its full potential and playing the full force of his V8. Nothing seems to bring the suspension at a loss never affects the CS overwhelmed. The fact that at that time neither the work nor the customers were enthusiastic about him, makes us now bleak.
The coolest cars of the 80's
The coolest cars of the 80's are Mercedes 300 CE (124) Peugeot 205 Rallye, Audi 200 Avant, Volvo 480 Turbo and Porsche 928 Clubsport, we find. Typical eighties!
Why could the 80s happen anyway? Who came up with the idea to build everything from plastic, cars, music, photo frames? And why did with half the society? After the revolution of '68, it was million young people to beige. The boys shaved to gel smeared his hair and büffelten for school. Because they did not want to India, they were in the boardrooms. Uprising of nerd, revolution with leather ties!
The adults presented claims, it shows on the cars of the time. Mercedes E 230, Audi 100,Volvo 440: That was cool, techno Statements. Peugeot 205 and Porsche 928 S4 were not adapted, but also very typical of the 80s in its design infatuation. Here are five cars that reflect the demands of the era: a Mercedes, has the style and luxury at the highest level. A Peugeot as perfect base for rallying. An Audi to BMW and Mercedes to the fear of God. A Volvo as the finest designer piece in the Golf class. And a Porsche , which they all abhängte.Keep what they promise?
Mercedes 300 CE (124) - Coupé with culture
Cooling is the Mercedes-middle class of the 80 always.As Coupé in Turquoise will even cool.
Apart from the Golf II a car triggers in the German classic scene even less awe than the Mercedes-mid '80s: A car like a childhood friend who was always there. As a classic? First of difficult. The middle-class Mercedes acting extroverted than other Mercedes. The new Mercedes models were more aerodynamic and lighter than before.Design Chief Bruno Sacco had designed all the 124er of the large line down to the details by a geometric figure, the trapeze. Except grille and logos there was no chrome. The only visible difference between 200 D and 300 E: the tailpipes. The new middle class should act in a socially acceptable. A car for all. The proviso was also true for the coupe, by definition, the first among equals. It came in 1987 with wide plastic strips on the side of the market, but was otherwise unremarkable.
Sacco clean shape is now setting the stage for the details that stand out. The line: The coupe is 8.5 centimeters shorter and 5.1 centimeters lower than the sedan. The roof is short, the rear window flat and angled in, as with the sedan. The roof pillar is flush with the rear fender. The basic form is unchanged, but the chubby is gone. The technique: little from the outside to see. A front apron with fluted air intakes is something special, but it may mean this (six-cylinder) or that (air conditioning). Why are the headlights wiper important? A dispensable extra for 524,40 marrow which is striking. They find inside their counterparts on top of the center console: the more switches, the more expensive. Metallic Turquoise, Scheinwerferwischerchen: What stands out is that the little things stand out. A car like all of its model and yet different - that says a lot about how this middle-class Mercedes works, now as then.
300 CE looks more modern than it drives
In the 80s, this technophile decade, Sacco is for status-conscious Mercedes customers from the slogan: functional technology replaces useless chromium. Even luxury needs can be justified rationally. Nowhere is this more visible than in the metallic turquoise Coupé: 300 CE with electrically adjustable leather seats, air conditioning and most other extras - more did not go in January 1989. And yet at first sight stands an almost classless car, only to subtleties as a member of a very upscale recognizable - at very discrete manner. To sit in the car, is of course still to arrive at home. The odometer shows 16,235 km, almost new.The car is easy to estimate. An edge is an edge here, clear 80s lines. It boosts the 40-centimeter-wheel and moving a ship: the suspension softer, the automatic carrier, the power steering sluggish than usual today. Surprise: The Mercedes looks modern, as it drives. Is the C 124 Coupe still a modern car? He's too old, even if we could go with him today without hesitation every season so that from the Arctic Circle to Gibraltar.Recommend him as a classic to the one prowling in the dark winter evenings in the garage?Indeed difficult for there are still too many rotten. But who has a good: keep. Their children will find it really cool in a few years.
Peugeot 205 Rallye 1.9 - small cars with fighting spirit
Small and powerful: Peugeots Braves compact carts 205 is a real poison dwarf.
The spider, the Gauls! Strike in 1987 at the Peugeot 205 GTI equipment and weight radically together and let the result as 205 Rallye 1.9 out of the lion's cage. Whether that was good? And how! Because sometimes say numbers more than 1000 words. As Peugeot 1983 205 presented, the brand is about to collapse. That he will shake up the small car market, no one is aware at that time. Within 15 years, offers Peugeot the 205 with 19 different engines that provide 45-128 PS, send 15 special models to the start, making the 205 the first diesel cars, the crack sales Million, and also experimented with an electric drive. In Germany swamped by customers the Peugeot dealers almost a shack: 1986 is the 205 in this country with 56 081 new registrations the best-selling imported car.The five plants in Europe and factories in Asia and South America produce at full capacity.Result: 5.3 million 205 rolls off the assembly line until 1998, no Peugeot is built more to date. The coolest of the series is the 205 Rallye, the first of three special models, the Peugeot 205 GTI based on the offering. With it, the brand celebrated its rally triumphs with the 205 Turbo 16: two world titles in the legendary Group B (1985-86), two victories in the Paris-Dakar (1987-88) and a second place at Pikes Peak 1987 are the most important international successes.
Visibility and amazing sense of space
White as the summit of Mont Blanc shimmering 205 Rallye in sunlight. Another color did not exist. Maintenance, but: red, namely for the scratch-out! Because the intention of offering a comparison with the 1.9-GTI abgespecktes to 100 kilos of sports equipment, let Peugeot half the equipment away. Nearly 800 kilos empty weight was the goal of slimming.The speck-free 205 Rallye cost around 4,000 marks less than the GTI 1.9. So slim, it can be robbers magnificently along winding Schwarzwaldsträßchen. With 102 hp, the 205 rally is about the same level in terms of performance of the original 1.6er-GTI (105 hp). Who has brought on the highly profiled sport seat behind the wheel in position, sits relatively high and has a superb all-round visibility. Also the feeling of space is surprisingly good. The seats are wide and comfortable, only the seat covers feel thinly as women's tights. But while driving comes to humor. With its short-graded, something hakelig to switching five-speed gearbox the 205 rally sprints faster than an equally old Golf GTI 16V from zero to 100 km / h. It trumpeted the four-cylinder, the eardrums vibrate, and the front wheels tug at the steering like a caged lion on the chain. So you spin it, the Gauls. Thank goodness!
Audi 200 Avant (C3) - middle class with added value
Only gaanz rarely ordered as a combination: Audi 200 Avant C3.
The Audi 200, it seems to go to the Black Forest. A few kilometers in a straight line from Professor Brinkmann's television Hospital carves 30 years later Carsten Ortholf in zermattsilbernen Avant snowy Schauinsland up. Actually, the Freiburg architect wanted a family car that offers enough space for his Hovawartrüden Anouk and even in winter is coming up to the house at 1000 meters altitude. Looking Ortholf remained with the 29th year old Audi depend, to a dealer in Holland offered.First owner, only 70,000 kilometers, all original. Only seven copies of the hatchback sedan with the 182-horsepower five-cylinder are registered with the Federal Motor Vehicle Office.Ortholfs way to classics is unusual - such as the way the Audi in the 80s with the Type 44 / C3 (factory abbreviation for Audi 100 and 200) is traveling. Making its debut in 1982, initially as a four-door sedan, affects the type 44 as a car of the future. Just to show briefly that as a - The honed aerodynamics with a drag coefficient of 0.30 when Saloon and Avant from 0.34 when he revealed in 1981 by a distant for 2000 designed prototype, the Audi at the IAA car can go already in series today. Lightweight, all-wheel drive, which comes in its fundamentals from the VW Iltis, partially and later fully galvanized sheet add up to a technological lead, which brings the competition in a tight spot.
"For the technology you will find almost anything anywhere"
For a then-current 123er-Mercedes or BMW 5 Series, the Audi 100 and even more so his brother aufgebrezelter 200 are modern, almost futuristic. For Ferdinand Piech makes, inspired by the urge to establish Audi as a premium brand in the VW group. The Type 44 is the clearance, even if the image does not even keep up. Audi went up overnight in the upper middle class. Suddenly their cars with four rings logo on boss (doctor) -Parkplätzen.When driving the 200 age is not noted. As hatchback Avant Although practical and well equipped, with over 60,000 Mark at that time but also painfully expensive, he slips silently through the airstream. Accompanied by muted hiss of the five-cylinder turbo runs like a bungee cord at Audi. 230 km / h are no difficulty in it. Snowy slopes of the Black Forest spurt of Avant loose high. Climate control, on-board computer - all you need. Actually missing the modern car, only the airbags. And what if something gets broken? Is there for the big Audi really hardly parts? Tim Wachter from the Frankish run which restored just a guy the same car, newcomers takes away the fear: "Only the sheet in body fittings and replace the interior looks it bad," says the 34-year-old Audi specialist. "For the technology you will find just about anything anywhere. Sometimes all it takes is a little patience." Many have VW Classic and Audi Tradition in stock, another contrast, there are only free traders or as second-hand goods on the Internet - provides the type-44-fan base orientation.
Volvo 480 Turbo - with compact class
Breaks with everything Volvo accounted formerly Volvo 480th
Volvos brick design has long been one of the déjà vu. The brand sold on its brand recognition as well as on passive and active safety. Mid-80s, however, she ventured a model in which everything should be different: basic form, the installation position of the engine, drive axle, electronics, even the naming process. Could that be fine?No, the Volvo 480 failed grandiose. But why? Because Volvo driver did not recognize him (to)? Because he was too cool for the brand, for the time? When the first Volvo with wedge shape / cross-engine / front-wheel drive / Central Electronics / Fantasy combination of numbers in the name came to the dealership, its developers had already tampered with him for eight years. Four-cylinder and manual transmission came from Renault, the engines had to be of Porsche with revised tedious. After America the car did not, in Europe he caused a stir on the other hand.
For the Volvo 480 was unheard impractical. For although four men could comfortably come in to him, handed his boot just for the weekend shopping (350 liters, 660 with the rear seats folded). Tester from time to chalk him to the sill at waist level. Today we love the 480 for its frameless glass tailgate. She makes 480 to Schneewittchensarg Neon decade. For the edgy rear-wheel drive cars, the brand saw fewer and fewer future, but for a modern vehicle layout and an electronic system which links all functions of the car. Volvos complicated naming - only series, then the number of cylinders, then number of doors - should be equal to the mitentsorgt modernization. The move away from the square look worried just the bus designer John de Vries. He designed the avant-garde car in company history: wedge shape, pop-up headlights, coupé doors, but estate rear. Was it so what went wrong?
Edge Volvo with 200 km / h
Nicolas von Wedel (49), owner of the photo Cars, reported that he winks at his 480 Turbo in Lavender Metallic every now and then with one eye. Something to do with electronics.Gladly zicken the LCD bar in the instrument cluster as well as all functions of the onboard computer. Even electronics. Brittle plastic, overburdened transmission, tab processing, meaningless placed switch: Dealing with deficiencies is part of the Volvo 480, since the first cars left the factory in Born, Netherlands. The turbo engine was Volvo actually already put the start of the series, but it came too late - and was too expensive: 38 775 Mark cost a 480 Turbo model in 1990 - a VW Golf GTI 16V 30,210 Mark. Although nine seconds from zero to 100 km / h and 200 km / h top absolutely fine. Only the schwedenschaukelige Volvo feeling earlier days is passé in 480. The Small barely leans into curves, bounces off short bumps, but rumbles through larger potholes. In fast corners the nose pushes outward. Although some hold the 480 for a Honda: The 480 is one of Volvo's classics, precisely because he has broken with the classic Volvo. Only then, at that time he did not arrive. Not at all, because its design would have been too cool for anything. No. You have at Volvo just anything messed up.
Porsche 928 Clubsport - speck-free athletes
Slimmed down to a minimum, but 330 hp plus: Porsche 928 Club Sport.
Sport is in the club at its best, sport helps you lose weight. The proof: 928 Clubsport. So sinewy, strong spurt and austrainiert is no other V8 transaxle squad. And no other Porsche 928 is very sports car. When Porsche 928 Club Sport engineers have saved on weight where it could.Side protection moldings, central locking, cruise control or electric seat adjustment? All deleted.Also insulation, wiring harness and vehicle tools are thinned; Towing, screwdriver, hex crank and ended wrench size 10 to 17 have to do.Approximately 120 kilos they have brought out, and it was worth it: The lightweight, snappy CS fun! A Porsche 928 in the rare and precious, only 19 times built Clubsport version requires rethinking, because the large-Porsche of 70s, 80s and 90s surrounding the image of the technologically most advanced, but saturated Gran Turismo. Most true image, because along with the rest of the luxury equipment usually a four-speed automatic transmission is fitted, the Porsche at that time still the Stuttgart neighbors Mercedes-Benz was shopping.Even the 928 GTS thus acts always something pomadig; He is with 5.4 liters of displacement and impressive 350 hp at technology, performance and features of the highlight of the 928-evolution, which lasted from 1977 to 1995. The 928 Club Sport, 1988-89 offered for less than a year, pointing in the other direction. His career began as a gimmick PS-hungry developers who wanted to show what a 928 in the Sport trim is capable. They were allowed to develop the 928 Club Sport for series production.
928 Clubsport felt differently
He came slimmed on the market, brushed with limited slip differential, a shorter translation and hard Boge dampers on Sport. Forged alloy wheels in a new design for the first time when there was so Clubsport. At the rear were 17-mm spacers, and to accommodate wheels and tires, even the fold of the wing was folded over the top of the wheelhouse. This was very effective but also unobtrusive. How to recognize a 928 Clubsport? The sticker on the fender is not an indication. A real 928 CS is different inside.Under the uninsulated hood, an engine must sit with a special status before the uninsulated bulkhead: Follows the defeated in the block serial number the abbreviation "SP", he is real Clubsport. Revised camshaft with one millimeter longer stroke, modified ignition and injection stuck in it. To 6775 / min instead of up to 6000 routes turns these five-liter four-valve V8 then high. While standing only 320 horsepower in the data sheet, as much as the normal, equally priced 928 S4. But the 320 hp were only the official version. All engineers involved knew that they had made not only for a little more speed to all the trouble. Of course not! But in Weissach they talked to CS rather small. 330 hp plus - more were the CS never conceded by Porsche people. Regardless of the horsepower of the 928 Club Sport is noticeably different. Chippings and stones clacking clearly audible in the wheel arches, the damping is bone dry. Porsche-typical bites the engine only above 3500 / min properly, turns exultant and thundering beyond the 6000 mark and tastes a little while after Penalty. Note: Only with manual transmission revealed the 928 its full potential and playing the full force of his V8. Nothing seems to bring the suspension at a loss never affects the CS overwhelmed. The fact that at that time neither the work nor the customers were enthusiastic about him, makes us now bleak.
