Volvo Car UK Limited Globe Park Marlow Buckinghamshire SL7 1YQ
Telephone: 01 628 477977 Facsimile: 01 628 485106
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
March 1996
PRACTICALLY PERFECT
Volvo's 850R combines Power and Refinement
Volvo has launched its most exciting standard production road car in the
company's 70-year history - the new Volvo 850R.
The new 850R adds extreme performance and sensational handling to
Volvo's traditional attributes of safety, durability and reliability.
Following on from the phenomenal success of the highly acclaimed limited
edition 850 T-5R - of which Volvo sold more than 400 in the UK - the even
more powerful 850R becomes a permanent feature in the 850 line-up.
Styling remains similar to the muscular, athletic look of the T-5R, although
the 850R features exclusive new 7-spoke, 17" Volan wheels, and has its
own unique range of exterior colours - Turquoise, Brilliant Red, Gun Metal
Grey and Black.
The greatest feature of the new 850R is not its paintwork, but its improved
performance.
The 2.3-litre 5-cylinder engine has been equipped with a
larger turbocharger, new intercooler and a more sophisticated fuel pressure
sensor (to obtain an even more precise air/fuel mixture), to increase power
by 10 bhp, to 250 bhp at 5400 rpm.
