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by jtbo » 04 Aug 2008 06:16 pm
In my MkIII there is really not much of need for fan, same goes to 240 too, but MkIII 360 has better ventilation, imo.
Don't know how it is in MkII, at least it has better control over how air comes to car, but maybe vents or tubing is not so good, or perhaps there is not enough vents for air to exit. One thing that comes to my mind is that as test car was probably protected against rust after importing to UK, could it be possible that some important ventilation holes would been vaxoiled shut by mistake?
My experiences from Fiat are from early 90's and even at those times there were no good ones around, today I don't see those Fiats anymore, they have gone to better place I believe, however old 300 series cars can be still spotted on roads. Colt's haven't been around for ages, they did rust away faster than rusty nails in salt water.
Colt was bit oddball to that test anyway, I would class it more in supermini class than small family compacts as it was not really similar in size to other two. This what I have found from them in practice.
Colt had turbo version too at some point, it had turbo integrated to manifold, so those are quite rare to spot today too, they did rust and to replace turbo you would need to get it from dealership...
Excellent reading those older car test, would be nice to have all old tests from 300 series, I do have one from 1976 but that is in Finnish, so probably not much of interest to majority of members?
Volvo 360GL -88 -under restoration-
Volvo 343DL vario -81 -running-

Volvo 240 Diesel -83 -undecided-
Citroen ZX Dturbo -97 -daily-

