We half expected to be meeting Swedes when we saw this turbo Volvo 240 wagon lift a wheel and run a 7.16 at 189 mph on the first day of HOT ROD Drag Week 2021.

LS-Swapped 1987 Volvo 240 Defies Reality With 6-Second, 200-MPH Achievement. Mikael Borggren could have the ultimate people mover for HOT ROD Drag Week thanks to 2,000 hp and seating for four.

A rod is a unit of measurement used in defining area. A Hot Rod is an automobile used in defining the coolness of its driver. Today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Volvo 240 could be defined as a Hot ...

Comfortable, well executed, and shockingly quick, the XC60 Recharge may be its segment’s best-kept secret. Volvo has long worked in unobscure obscurity—that is to say that while most folks ...

The great Volvo 240 Wagon. Flickr/Zenity79 In the meantime, Volvo has released the first details of its XC90 R-Design, the sports-oriented variant of the SUV.

2023 Volvo XC60 Recharge First Test: A Cushy, Secret Hot Rod Comfortable, well executed, and shockingly quick, the XC60 Recharge may be its segment’s best-kept secret. Erik Johnson Writer Jim ...

I started out in a safety orange 1975 Volvo 242. This was a first-year, entry level model, with a 1.8-liter B20A engine carried over from the car’s slightly-less rectilinear predecessor, the 140.

Dave Schroeder is the 2021 HOT ROD Drag Week overall winner. See what happened on the final day of racing at U.S. 131 Motorsports Park and who finished in the top 3 overall. Congratulations to ...

The Hot Rod Jakob does of course go its own way, but I regard it more as a work of art than as a Hot Rod. The car is built with the very same Scandinavian design tradition as our modern Volvo models.

This month Volvo will be unveiling a hand-built hot-rod at the Volvo Museum in Göteborg before the car makes its way to the home of the hot-rods, the USA, on a tour. While most hot-rods are built ...

This is the Hot Rod Jakob, built by Tufvesson in the style of the first-ever series-produced Volvo, the 1927 OV4. Although it's a completely new design rather than a restored model, the Jakob was ...