From the Archive: 1991 Volvo 940SE is a foul-weather friend:
Not surprisingly, the Turbo is the most aggressive handler of the trio, due in large part to the wider wheels and larger tires. None of the three will be mistaken for anything but Volvos, no bad thing where a roomy sedan is concerned. Under way, the cars are capable and controlled and able to negotiate surfaces rough and smooth, straight and twisting, without incident.
For the kind of high-speed, bad-weather driving Europeans so often encounter, the 940 sedans are more at home than most. We can think of a great many sedans that do not respond well to being put on high banking at speeds in the 110-mph range, but Volvos are not among this number. The 940s just keep whistling on through the wet, wipers sweeping the big windshield, creating their own sunshine.
On a short handling course, the Turbo and the SE were the most fun, the Turbo because of its sportier tires and the SE because of its multilink rear suspension. None of the cars are neck-snappers—or head-turners for that matter—but only the GLE left us feeling the least short-changed in the power-supply category. The other sedans and the Turbo wagon bordered on being fun, which is not to damn them with faint praise . . .
The new 940 lineup will be followed next year by a line of 960s that will be powered by Volvo's new B-6304F 24-valve, twin-cam 2.9-liter inline-six. We drove this car also, and can say that the engine's 204 horsepower brought the big sedan to an easy gallop with all the right sensory elements. We were also treated to a run in a 273-hp twin-turbo version of the 960, an engine that may or may not ever see production. The 960 series did not come to the U.S.
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