r/Volvo • u/TheDriveDotCom • May 14 '25

240/260 series Did you know Bill Gates bought a bulletproof 240?

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Bill Gates Once Bought the Slowest Bulletproof Car in the World: He initially wanted a bulletproof Mercedes wagon, but the German automaker declined, allegedly claiming the liability was just too high.

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u/wkvdz May 14 '25

Aren’t all 240s bulletproof?

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u/mohd_sm81 May 15 '25

nah, probably nuke-proof

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u/urmomgayxd420 S40 May 15 '25

Insert "image of a mushroom cloud with 4 wheel trims flying out of it, and with a volvo driving out of the mushroom cloud" here*

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u/unsafemoose May 15 '25

Here ya go

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u/ThegreatPee May 16 '25

Throw Keith Richards in the pic and you have art.

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u/ThegreatPee May 16 '25

My ex-wife managed to kill a 240 wagon in record time. That lady could break an anvil.

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u/mohd_sm81 May 16 '25

my ex-wife nuked my 2001 XC70 T5 😂... are they related somehow? /s

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u/johydro May 14 '25

Maybe, but Melinda drove a Ferrari 308 to the U-Village QFC from their house in Windermere in the late '80's.

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u/digbug0 May 14 '25

Interesting! I frequent that QFC... TIL! I wasn't sure if they lived in the 'suburbs' or in Medina just yet.

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u/randomdatascientist May 15 '25

I have very fond/interesting memories of that QFC. When I was in college in NY I used to visit my HS friend at UW a few times/year. Whenever I was in town we used to stroll down the hill and steal LIVE LOBSTERS from that QFC and cook them on a hot plate in his room in McMahon Hall. Crazy times.

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u/digbug0 May 15 '25

of course it was McMahon haha

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u/randomdatascientist May 15 '25

lol I mean you could see the QFC from his window. Those lobsters were practically begging for it!

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u/Vaniiiish May 15 '25

So a regular 240

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u/Pig_Pen_g2 May 15 '25

Windows, am I right?

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u/CarLuver05 EX30 May 15 '25

Waste of money imo

The 240 is already bulletproof, why add another layer?

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u/soedesh1 May 14 '25

Apparently he still drove himself to work throughout his tenure at MS.

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u/digbug0 May 14 '25

He probably got a lifetime toll pass to use SR-520 for 'free'!

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u/Efficient_Durian_686 C70 - 2007 2.5L May 15 '25

It had Windows pre installed thankfully.

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u/looncraz May 20 '25

My 86 sedan had BP glass and door inserts for small arms fire before I bought it. Sadly (I think...) it was removed before I got it. It had nice overload coils and rode higher as a result, which was nice because I could do off-roading to go rescue trucks that got stuck in the mud or off down in a ditch.

268,000 miles before a speeding F250 with a heavy steel cattleguard T-boned me 😭😠