This particular Volvo 850 T-5R is on loan from the ... 10.9-psi overboost (up from 9.5) at engine speeds above 5,100 rpm. Horsepower rose from the Turbo’s 222 to 240, while torque was the ...

In our last—and glowing—review of Volvo's swift 850 Turbo wagon, we mentioned that ... a simple tweaking of the electronic engine-management system is responsible for an 18-horsepower increase ...

(Full disclosure: Volvo recently ... five-cylinder engine makes just 240 horsepower which, by modern standards, isn't much. I was not the buyer of that particular 850 T-5R, either.

It was in 1995 when sales seemed to really pick up for the 850 range. That makes this 1994 Turbo something of a modest rarity among 850s on the road today. But chances are, today's Volvo drivers ...

One car I'm thankful I no longer own is the 1994 Volvo 850 sedan ... that's where the engine is. But in the 850 that meant that every little imperfection in the road surface was communicated ...

Twenty years have passed since Volvo entered ... 2-liter engine producing around 290 hp that went through a six-speed sequential transmission instead of the standard 2.3 turbo's five-speed manual.

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