Learn more about Smooth Brick: Excellent 1971 Volvo 142s on Bring a Trailer, the home of the best vintage and classic cars online.

We don't normally feature modern modified vehicles, but this 1990 Volvo 740 Turbo Wagon is worth a closer look given some of the names that have graced its build. The founder of the website Turbo Bricks, one of the predominant Volvo websites, built this turbocharged wagon piece by piece to build the ultimate sleeper, and the...

Learn more about Unblemished Brick: 1986 Volvo 240 DL Wagon on Bring a Trailer, the home of the best vintage and classic cars online.

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(first posted 5/30/2014)    My sympathies are with all of you non-Volvophiles this week. It’s hard having to sit through endless recitations about the joys of bricks, SU carbs, four cylinder […]

Series of Volvo 240 'Brick' side views as t-shirt designs for Artsmoto, San Diego, California. Also released as prints and posters.

Learn more about Good Looking Brick: 1993 Volvo 940 Turbo Wagon on Bring a Trailer, the home of the best vintage and classic cars online.

It’s been four decades since Volvo first introduced the 240 and its 242 two-door sedan and 245 wagon variants. While the ‘Vo’ has perhaps been the butt of a few jokes for most of the world, in its ancestral home of Scandinavia, this brick-ish, stout workhorse is beloved and has enjoyed constant enthusiast attention. Nowhere will you …

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Illustration of a red Volvo 245 / 240 Series "Brick" two door sedan coupe. Green paint, stock steel wheels, NA bumpers by Tom Mayer, Monkey Crisis On Ma... Volvo 242 Brick Coupe 200 Series Green

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Gothenburg's first 'brick' influenced Volvo design for decades

Volvo and the 240T Grp. A car, a brilliant story in the Touring Car history. Not only did the Volvo or should we say, the "Flying Brick" take the 1985 European Touring Car Championship and Deutsche Produktionswagen Meisterchaft (The pre-DTM) but it also tricked the opposition and the then called FISA regarding homologation numbers. The Volvo…

View Large On Black Yesterday my sister and I visited the Powell Volvo dealer in Scottsdale, Arizona. They were making some incredible good deals on these great cars and my sister bought one (a great V50 station-wagon). While she worked out the details with the dealer, I walked around and took photos of the many Volvos on the lot. You wouldn't know there was an economic recession going on in Scottsdale, Arizona, for this Volvo dealership was doing great and had many customers (the salesman told me Volvo is owned by Ford now). Ever since I lived in Sweden, I've loved Volvo cars. These new ones are super! I especially like the body-style and look of the C30 coupe (the fast spiffy car used in the popular film "Twilight", driven by Edward the teenage vampire). Above is a photo of the tail light of one of the C30 Volvos on display, pretty cool! INFORMATION ON VOLVO CARS: Volvo Cars, or Volvo Personvagnar AB, is a Swedish automobile manufacturer founded in 1927 in the city of Gothenburg, Sweden, and currently owned by Ford Motor Company. The name Volvo, Latin for "I roll" (or "I drive" in a modern sense, was thought to be a good trademark for a ball bearing as well as for an automobile. Volvo was originally formed as a subsidiary company to the ball bearing maker SKF. It was not until 1935 when Volvo AB was introduced on the Swedish stock exchange that SKF sold most of the shares in the company. Volvo Cars was owned by AB Volvo until 1999, when it was acquired by the Ford Motor Company as part of its Premier Automotive Group. Volvo produces models ranging from SUVs, wagons, and sedans to compact executive sedans and coupes. With 2,500 dealerships worldwide in 100 markets; 60 percent of sales come from Europe, 30 percent from North America, and the other 10 percent is from the rest of the world. Volvo cars have always evoked a reputation for solidity and reliability.[ Volvo's market share is shrinking in the North American market. However, Volvo increased its market share in new markets such as Russia, China and India. Specifically, Volvo expected sales in Russia to double and exceed 20,000 units by the end of 2007, making Russia one of the ten biggest markets for the company. Volvo already boasts the leading position in Russia's luxury car segment. Older models were often compared to tractors, partly because Volvo AB was and still is a manufacturer of heavy equipment, earlier Bolinder-Munktell, now Volvo Construction Equipment. Considered by some to be slow and heavy, they earned the distinction "brick" as a term of endearment for the classic, block-shaped Volvo, with the more powerful turbo charged variants known as "turbobricks". More recent models have moved away from the boxy styles favored in the 1970s and 1980s and built a reputation for sporting performance, but not before the phenomenal success of factory-supported Volvo 240 turbos winning both the 1985 European Touring Car Championship (ETC) and 1986 Australian Touring Car Championship (ATCC). Source: Wikipedia

I finally did it, I've built a Volvo. It took me little more than a month to design, collect parts and build it, which is pretty short for my standards, I usually take (or loose) more time to fully complete a MOC of these proportions. Link to the video: YouTube Link to Eurobricks: Eurobricks The scale is, roughly, 1/20 and it has some functional features. Using LEGO power functions the vehicle can drive, steer, lift its 2nd driven axle, flash its beacon lights and operate the hooklift system. To be perfectly honest, not all of its features work the way I wanted them to work. The chassis was a bit small to incorporate all of these functions. I may design a new chassis at some point. For me the highlight of this model is the cab really, getting the proportions of an FH right was a challenge, I had to make many compromises, choose the lesser of two evils. Of all truck brands, the Volvo just has the most complex design to replicate in the brick. But that is of course because a Volvo is the most pretty truck of them all after all. As I am employed at Volvo Trucks I simply had to build Volvo’s flagship. When Covid is over, I’ll drive it around the office landscape :). I must say, it's looks a little weird on my shelf, next to my pirate ships...