by Octane staff and contributors
easy to imagine that Volvo estates are stodgy, square and slow. Maybe it’s just a British perception, but it’s based on a snapshot from the history of this Swedish icon. Sure, the 240 generation was perhaps over-inspired by Volvo’s experimental safety cars of the early 1970s, although it certainly had a USP. Yet here we have, in the 1800ES, a shooting brake to rival the Scimitar GTE, maybe even the Lynx Eventer, a car more about style than practicality. Though it isn’t exactly fast, it couldn’t be
