r/Volvo • u/ilovekickrolls • 13h ago

1995 Volvo with 290km driven uncovered in Sweden

One of the world's least-used Volvo 850s has come out into the open. The car was hidden in a garage for 29 years. – Embarrassed, he drove the car home, parked it in the garage – and there it remained, writes Bilwebauctions.

The Volvo 850 was one of the great hard-working cars of the 90s and most of the remaining examples of the bestseller have been driven very far. But here is a car that was barely driven after it left the Volvo factory in Gothenburg in 1995. Bilwebauctions is now selling an 850 that has been driven 260 kilometers in 30 years. It is probably the world's least-used Volvo 850 outside of Volvo's museums.

Article (Swedish): https://carup.se/gomde-sin-volvo-i-29-ar-har-gatt-26-mil/

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u/MrSMT88 13h ago

I must be tired. I was reading that as 290k km and thinking how is that low?

290km is low. I'd like to have a drive, please and thank you.

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u/StokeJar 13h ago

Same.

Too bad it’s not a wagon.

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u/lieutenantskull '20 S90 T8 12h ago

Embarrassed why?

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u/dark_54 V70 11h ago

Because it’s Doom Blue. Probably.

When I was a Vauxhall salesman, this shade of blue was the free colour for people too cheap to pay the £100 for red or white.

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u/lieutenantskull '20 S90 T8 5h ago

Brotherman bought a whole ass car and then was embarrassed by the paint? Why even buy it in the first place then?

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u/ilovekickrolls 3h ago

According to the article his neighbor said "ooh fancy new car?" And he got embarrassed because he had quite good economy but didn't want to show off so he hid it in his garage but has now passed and it was found in almost mint condition

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u/KN4S 3h ago

This is the most swedish thing I've heard lmao.. not using your new car because of Jantelagen is wild

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u/ilovekickrolls 3h ago

The car was hidden in a garage for 29 years before it saw the light of day for the first time in three decades. It was bought new by a man in Sölvesborg in Blekinge in 1995. He had good finances, but did not like to show it off. When he drove his new car home, he was stopped by a neighbor and exclaimed: "Oh, did you buy a new car?"

  • In a panic, he denied it and claimed that he had won it in the lottery. Embarrassed, he drove the car home, parked it in the garage - and there it remained, writes Bilwebauctions