GTP Cool Wall: Volvo 480 Turbo

[ThrasherDBS]

If I saw it going down the street, I'd turn my head and ask "what the hell was that?" That being said, I can't reasonably call it seriously uncool. Normal uncool it is.

I think this probably sums up what I feel as well. I'd be pretty surprised to see one, but wouldn't necessarily stare at it in awe.

UNCOOL

 

[Cano]

But they're two different things. There's no real correlation between your and my opinion on this car (yes, I like it too; game changer) and the "coolness" of it.

There's a pretty decent difference between how much one person likes a car and how cool they look driving it.

Again, subjective, which is what you can't seem to catch. To you how a person looks driving a car is a factor for coolness, while I couldn't care less about it.

 

[Tornado]

But they're two different things.

Based on your subjective understanding of the two subjective concepts.

There's no real correlation between your and my opinion on this car (yes, I like it too; game changer) and the "coolness" of it.

Based on your subjective understanding of the two subjective concepts.

There's a pretty decent difference between how much one person likes a car and how cool they look driving it.

Based on your subjective understanding of the two subjective concepts.

 

[MatskiMonk]

I'm going for cool.

When I was at a certain age this car was one of the more interesting choices available for not a lot of money, if you could afford the insurace (which most of us couldn't) - at that level, it was a car many of us wanted (among others of course), I don't recall if I was still tarting about in a 106, or I'd moved to the Rover, but either way, this was a much more interesting and better looking choice than either of those, or my other friends Japanese econo-hatches.

 

[Murcie_LP640]

To you how a person looks driving a car is a factor for coolness, while I couldn't care less about it.

How a person looks driving a car is not, personally, one of the factors I use for coolness within these threads.

 

[Cano]

O_o then why did you mention it while discussing this?

 

[Roger the Horse]

It's a Volvo. All Volvo's are Sub-Zero. (Except the XC90)

 

[Badasp5.0]

Being a Volvo fan I am on the fence on this one. Its odd looking, has a turbo and a hatchback all things I like. But I will probably never see one in person since it was never imported to the US and the specs don't seem that fun/impressive. I vote MEH on it.

 

[Joey D]

I like it and it's unique, but it looks like a wedge of cheese and looks like the kind of vehicle people would get and then tell onlookers they just "don't understand it".

Oh and it's got pop-up headlights which are probably the least cool feature on a car because you have people fawn over them like they are some how a crowning jewel of automotive design. Pop-up head lights were terrible when they were a new idea, they're even worse now.

With all that said I'm going uncool.

 

[niky]

Volvo 840? Subzero, of course! ABSOTIVELY POSILUTELY COMPLETERRIFICALLY SUBZERO!







Oh... 480? What's that?






Meh.

 

[Bopop4]

That front end is having an identity crisis, and it's giving me a headache just to look at it.

Turbo though, so not seriously uncool.

 

[Tyger]

Solid cool from me, interesting shape, odd features like the pop-up headlights, possible future classic status.

 

[Zenith]

I don't think trees any escaping that this is a 80's hatchback with the word "turbo" written on it.

So very uncool.

 

[Leonidae@MFT]

I'll give it Cool. Quirky little turbo hatchback, inspiration for the C30.

 

[Sage Ages]

A Volvo that think it's a Citroen....



That's a good thing. Kinda cool?

 

[GranTurismo916]

Uncool, it's one of the worst Volvos.

 

[Crash]

It kind of like it, but it's about as cool as 80s hairdo like this:

Another junkyard clunker that teenagers around here get as a beater of a first car that is front wheel drive, worth made only a few hundred dollars so they don't really have to worry about a loss when they decide to roll it because it's not worth anything anyways.

This car was never sold in America...

 

[Wiegert]

This car was never sold in America...

Perhaps he either assumes that young drivers just import them in droves and inevitably total them soon after? Or he's using it as an example of the sort of car that doesn't get much admiration around his parts, and shouldn't even bother existing?

There aren't very many examples left (little over 1,000 worldwide, because they're nowhere near as solidly built as your typical Volvo). If anybody was seriously looking to buy one, I doubt they'd hold it in such low regard and use it as their first disposable toy simply because it's cheap to buy and looks "utterly crap" anyway.

 

[Badasp5.0]

Perhaps he either assumes that young drivers just import them in droves and inevitably total them soon after? Or he's using it as an example of the sort of car that doesn't get much admiration around his parts, and shouldn't even bother existing?

There aren't very many examples left (little over 1,000 worldwide). If anybody was seriously looking to buy one, I doubt they'd hold it in such low regard and use it as their first disposable toy, simply because it's cheap to buy and looks "utterly crap" anyway.

That I think is what he was getting at.

 

[Nicksfix]

That front end is having an identity crisis, and it's giving me a headache just to look at it.

Turbo though, so not seriously uncool.

That's pretty much where I'm at on this one.

 

[Spacegoat]

Quirky looks and turbo. Gets a solid cool from me.

 

[Slash]

r he's using it as an example of the sort of car that doesn't get much admiration around his parts, and shouldn't even bother existing?

This is what I'm getting at for the most part.

 

[Leonidae@MFT]

Also, pop-up headlights are always a good reason for COOL.

 

[Nicksfix]

True, on some cars they do look cool.
But in the jist of it all, they can be a pain in the arse ... especially in the winter time when they get frozen shut and thus rendering your headlights in-operable.

 

[Flex0r]

Solid cool from me, but i'm slightly biased as I have two of which one is still scheduled for major fix up.
Scrapped the other one as it was beyond repair.

Multi-national car, designed and build in the Netherlands, French engine block which was tuned by Germans and commissioned by a Swedish brand.

Unfortunately the steel that was used is really bad, there are not many 480's any more that are not complete rust buckets.

This one is no more

 

[axletramp]

It kind of like it, but it's about as cool as 80s hairdo like this:
*hairstyle-of-awesomeness pic*

Wait, what's a pic of me doi.... oh, never mind.

 

[SVX]

Cool. A quirky little hatchback. I've seen two (or maybe just one) before in real life and thought it was such a cool, quirky car. Especially for a 'cheap runabout'. Just misses out from sub zero due to the design being let down by the bland wheels. If they had gone with a quirky wheel design to suit the design, how could this turboed, Swedish wedge hatchback not be sub zero?

 

[TheCracker]

If they had gone with a quirky wheel design to suit the design, how could this turboed, Swedish wedge hatchback not be sub zero?

Because it was predominantly owned by old men?

 

[axletramp]

I remember a review of the 480 describing it's poor build quality and rattles as sounding like 'two skeletons having sex in a biscuit tin in the boot".

 

[SVX]

Because it was predominantly owned by old men?

The thing is though, at least here, they're so rare no one would see that. It's really an 'enthusiast's runabout/affordable car', as normal people wouldn't care for it, but the people who knew what they were looking at would.