I was driving through Doncaster this morning with my sister in the 340 and from a distance pointed out an Amazon coming the other way, as he passed he gave us a wave .

It's finally happened, even owners of other Volvo models are now accepting the 300 as one of them, and maybe even a classic, and that takes some doing sometimes!

Maybe loss of cool points for some of on here but I thought it was nice!

Ha. Must have been some one with a secret 300 hidden in the back of the garage.

I refuse to believe it

Dutch rubbish

volvosneverdie wrote:Ha. Must have been some one with a secret 300 hidden in the back of the garage.

Could only be a closet 300 owner, or an early morning error.

There's still a 'ardcore out there that have some weird ideas what a "proper" Volvo is and airbrush certain cars out in a Stalin fashion. Bonkers.

never noticed this why do they say a 300 isnt a proper volvo
does it not wear the volvo badge with pride as mine sentiently does
or they are jealous that there volvo doesnt weight under a 1000kg is rwd small light economical cool abused it pretty much every Motorsport going at one time or another the list goes on haha
i feel sorry for them hahah

mat_91 wrote:never noticed this why do they say a 300 isnt a proper volvo

Its because the car is somewhat of a Heinz 57. Designed by DAF, uses renault engines and they stuck a volvo badge on the front. Some people dont regard it as a proper volvo, others just regard it as the baby volvo from the 80's. The 'proper' volvos are the big mahoooooooosive 240/740/940's paha

[quote="Attack2001The 'proper' volvos are the big mahoooooooosive 240/740/940's paha [/quote]

With the big VW diesel engine or the V6 from PRV (Peugeot, Renault)....

volvomania wrote:

Attack2001 wrote:The 'proper' volvos are the big mahoooooooosive 240/740/940's paha

With the big VW diesel engine or the V6 from PRV (Peugeot, Renault)....

That raised a smile, never looked at it like that

I've found a lot more recognition from the VOC especially since a few of us started getting more involved with the club, I've been told by many a polisher at the BKV that the reason they didn't accept it was they didn't understand the rubber bands, so have always shy-ed away

Chris_C wrote:
With the big VW diesel engine or the V6 from PRV (Peugeot, Renault)....

Both of which I'd say are worse than any B14 and B172

SteveP wrote:

Chris_C wrote:
With the big VW diesel engine or the V6 from PRV (Peugeot, Renault)....

Both of which I'd say are worse than any B14 and B172

GET OUT!

SteveP wrote:

Chris_C wrote:
With the big VW diesel engine or the V6 from PRV (Peugeot, Renault)....

Both of which I'd say are worse than any B14 and B172

And that's not even mentioning modern-day Peugeot diesel engines or Ford Focus platforms ...

Tom

At least some of our little dafs have a Volvo redblock inside , have correct wheel drive and date from the days when Volvo's were made from and to look like iron girders, even if they weren't 100% Volvo

Reminds me of this quote........

In those days spirits were brave, the stakes were high, men were real men, women were real women and small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri were real small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri.

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Bring back the 70's!

Hell Driver wrote:small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri were real small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri.

Care to explain? im only young

You don't have to be old to read Hitchikers guide to the galaxy. In fact, you pretty much have to be quite young