1985 Volvo 740 GLE Turbo Diesel: Regular Car Reviews

It's smokey and slow! It's a Diesel Volvo!

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00:00 Intro
1:00 Factor Ad
2:34 Official Car of
5:17 Engine
9:25 May I have a hug that lasts for a long time?
12:48 I don't mean to get hard
15:21 But that's what demisexuality is
17:13 Outro


New 2nd channel "Regular and Roman"

[tkx]

"I've got this theory that there is a Volvo in any sane person's future" ¬James May.

[aaronswink]

1985 Volvo 740 GLE Turbo Diesel: The official car of the driver who thinks (and brags about it all of the time) that 300, 000 miles is just "breaking it in."

[tomaszaugustyn]

Black smoke and no throttle responce means that the turbo said goodbye...
These engines (as long as not overheated) are really sturdy and have some torque, tot speaking bout the numbers but about what Your butt will tell You.
Properly tuned this sweedish brick can really put a smile on one's face ;)
Greetings from Poland ;)

[Brock_Landers]

Your boy dressed to the nines in all denim is an absolutely perfect icon of this car...then all of those people stuck behind him while he's driving are like gtfo of my way!

[grandovercrap]

“I know you have adult art of Susie from Deltarune” came outta nowhere lol

[ZacksScraps]

The turbo on this car is 100% gone. That is not normal.

[KestrelYI]

Volvo gooner here. Never dealt with the diesels but all of the 240/740/940 were and are truly fantastic cars. (Have three which share the driveway with much newer cars but still have their place.). The capability for power and performance is there (and well documented) but even if you just wanted a tractor for a daily driver, they're still absolutely wonderful, charming cars.

[shaunchappell]

I had a 760gle with the hpt 2.3 4 speed manual with electronic overdrive. Silver over red leather interior. Fuel pump, air intake, turbo

It was immense fun, reliable, comfortable, everything worked.

[vwestlife]

The D24T is a VW/Audi engine (Volvo tried to make it sound more fancy by calling it an Audi engine) based on their 4-cylinder diesel, with two more cylinders added on. Unfortunately they didn't really upgrade the cooling and oiling systems to match the greater displacement, so the combination of short trips where the engine didn't get up to full operating temperature and long 7500 mile intervals between oil changes (OK today, but not on 1980s dino oil!) led to many of these having an early demise and a reputation for unreliability. But the same engine used in VW Transporter vans in Europe, where it would be left running for hours, was much more reliable.

I had an even more rare 1980 Audi 5000 with the 5-cylinder non-turbo version of VW's diesel. It was very slow, but got 35-40 MPG, and it had excellent ride and handling.

[mattauker]

My dad ordered an 82 Oldsmobile Delta 88 with the diesel. That engine never needed anything. It was traded off at 120k with zero issues believe it or not. The trans gave up the ghost at 80k. One of the biggest issues was the lack of knowledge (most owners) on how to take care of the diesel . The car was great on fuel and if you rolled into it on a hill it would smoke like a Peterbilt.

[webwebwebby]

"It will stand in the way of you moving from your parents home."

Not even 10 seconds in and Mr. Regular basically summed up my life. Equal parts impressive and sad. Well done.

[stormix]

That last line goes hard. "Waiting to be desired" is such a powerful human condition

[Emppu_T.]

The back window is so upright it barely gets wet in the rain. It's a bug hunk of steel, vast for not so much. And beloved by all youngsters now over here. We had one of these when they still where the car of choice for the moving salesman. It was glorious.

[shepshepherd]

These are surprisngly sought after amongst RWD Volvo enthusiasts here in the UK.

[VolkswagenNut]

I don’t have a diesel, but I have two Redblock Volvo 940 wagons, one turbo, one non-turbo, and they are the most robust reliable cars I’ve ever owned. Everything works on both of them. The non turbo is a slug, cruises easily at 80MPH all day long, just takes a long time to get there and you have to think ahead on hills.
The Turbo is surprisingly quick and fun!
Wish I had discovered these cars years ago. They actually get questions and comments from young people all the time. I guess they’re just enough “of their time” to be a curiosity.

[AdamB]

Sick. My parents had an 81 240 Diesel manual 5 speed. Good ol Swedish lead sled. Oil pump failed was the reason why my folks gave up on it. They bought a 85 240 DL gas wagon with a manual 5 speed after. Took me and the family all over America.

[Macintosh]

The 2 minutes after the ad is the most insane thing I have ever heard from this channel so far please keep up with this humor 😭

[robertfranklin]

I owned a gas 87 740 GLE Wagon and the interior shots bring back a lot of memories of road trips and breakdowns (often on said road trips).

[MostlyNotDps]

The most astounding feature of this vehicle is the thought that the year I was born, somebody stood in front of this car at a dealership and said "This. This is the vehicle choose to show off my new promotion with."

[alastairward]

I love the American market headlights on this thing.