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buying a new (used) brick

posted by  garlandw on  Thu Aug 1 06:41 CST 2002
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I see you got a lot of good advice already and I echo the lament for the dearth of manual trannies in the 740/940 series after 1991. See my site at http://billgarland.mcmaster.ca/volvo/volvohome.htm for a list of which cars had what trannies. I spend years looking for a clean manual 740 wagon that I could afford before I found one.

However, I try to keep an open mind and I have heard that the turbo is a better match to the automatic than the manual because the turbo tends to spool down between shifts. Anyone care to comment? Maybe the newer smaller turbos are not so prone to that.

Another notion I had was to import a late 945 with a stick from Europe. Has anyone investigated the possibility of doing that?

Bill






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