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"The place of nearly everybody depends on the opinion of everyone else"
Walter Bagehot, 1826-1877
Opinions on the 200
Books
- Autohandboek Volvo 240-serie : 1986 cm³, 2127 cm³, 2316 cm³ benzinemotoren : alle modellen 1974-1984 : sleutelboek voor onderhoud en reparatie / redactie en bewerking P.H. Olving
Kluwer Technische Boeken
ISBN 90-201-1938-9
- Brooklands Books
- Crap cars / Richard Porter
BBC Books, © 2004
ISBN 0-563-52210-0
[about the Volvo 262C:] "'What would happen if you sliced the roof off an otherwise sensible Volvo saloon and replaced it with what appears to be the top of a 1970s American pimp mobile?' Well here's your answer - it would look ridiculous. But that didn't stop them making it. Doh!"
- Pocket mechanic for Volvo 240 series, carburettor and fuel injection 1986, 2127 and 2320cc, 1976-1988
Peter Russek Publications
ISBN 0-907779-60-3
- Sicherheit aus Schwedenstahl : Volvo 140 bis 260 / Dieter Günther und Boris Schmidt unter Mitarbeit von Norbert Oertel
Autovision
ISBN 3-9805832-8-7
Contains lots of minor faults
- Volvo 240, 242, 244 & 245 : 1974 till 1993 / Rob Maddox & Steve Churchill
Haynes gör-det-själv-handbok
ISBN 1-85960-207-X
- Volvo 240 series : 1974 to 1993 (up to K registration) : Petrol / Rob Maddox & Steve Churchill
Haynes service and repair manual
ISBN 1-85960-267-3
- Volvo 240 series : 1976 thru 1993 : all gasoline engine models
Haynes automotive repair manual
ISBN 1-56392-136-7
- Volvo 240 series : all Volvo 240 series models : 240, 244 & 245, 2127 cc & 2315 cc : owner's handbook/servicing guide / Matthew Minter
Haynes owner's handbook/servicing guide
ISBN 0-85696-936-2
- Volvo 240 service manual: 1983-1993 (DL, GL, Turbo, 240, 240 DL, 240 GL and 240 SE)
Bentley Publishers
ISBN 0-8376-0285-8
- Volvo 244/5, 264/5, 240 & 260 : [road tests & articles] / compiled by Trevor Alder
Transport Source Books, 1994
TSB 173
- Volvo 260 series : 1975 to 1985 : all models, 2664 cc, 2849 cc / Philip Methuen
Classic reprint
Haynes owners workshop manual
ISBN 1-85010-206-6
- Volvo Cars of North America Technical Information
Contains, among other things, specifications of workshop manuals of Volvo.
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Nice to know
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"Volvo 240 is a dependable workhorse, but no longer selling strongly"
Quentin Willson in BBC Top Gear Magazine (issue 17, February 1995) |
| "That is completely nonsense. Privately I drive an old Volvo 240 back home in Sweden. There is nothing which comes close to our cars"
Kenny Bräck compares Ferrari and Porsche with the Volvo 240 in Expressen of 15 January 1999 |
| "Imagine my horror, then, when he wheeled a Volvo 240 from the garage and proceeded to drive it in what can only be described as a hat"
James May in May on Motors (ISBN 978-0-7535-1186-2)
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| "Towards the end of the seventies the 260 Series was eaten up by mainly Ford, whose Granada 2,8i sold well"
Calle Carlquist thumbed through the 260 brochure of model 79 in the second issue of Automobil of 2008 |
| "And in the eighties Volvo invented the square wheel at last. That stiff has never a wheel been"
Olle Wilson about the Turbo wheel Virgo in Classic Motor Magasin of November 1999 |
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