Volvo 960 / FocusV8

Capri

Dream 'Q-cars' -

http://jalopnik.com/5540957/the-ford+powered-volvo-wagon-paul-newman-built/1404005667/@travis


http://www.kugelkomponents.com/focus/focusv8.php


The dream lives on - never to be shattered by Irish tax / insurance regs :rolleyes:

Tzar Chasm

oh I sooooooo want a volvo designed by Paul newman, now that's a conversation starter

Capri

I suppose others would be VW vans with Scooby / Audi 5 - V6 / Ford V6's
I remember Morris Marina V8's as well.

Do-more

The handling on the Focus doesn't appear to be up to much according to this review lots of work to do if you want it to go round corners and not just down the 1/4 mile.

Big engines are very yesterday, in 5 years time it will be all about fitting electric motors into classics....:P

jimgoose

Do-more wrote: »

The handling on the Focus doesn't appear to be up to much according to this review lots of work to do if you want it to go round corners and not just down the 1/4 mile.

Big engines are very yesterday, in 5 years time it will be all about fitting electric motors into classics....:P

I'm going to drop an old Rover V8 into a Prius just to send MadLad apesh!t!

Bigus

Focus v8 you always drop this fwd Volvo v8 unit in

Capri

To join up the dots here....
FocusST uses Volvo 5 engine...
Volvo 5 engine is fitted to Volvo S80, which also offers the V8 in the line up so a few engine mounts cobbled together and ...:eek: :cool:

Well done Bigus

Do-more

Capri, if you want to beat the taxman the Irish solution is a 1.3 litre Focus and one of these....

Capri

Do-more wrote: »

Capri, if you want to beat the taxman the Irish solution is a 1.3 litre Focus and one of these....

Nice one - Prius + that and I could be a rich man ( fuel savings of €10k/yr over a real V8 :eek: )

Worst thing is - I'm serious