Comments on: Volvo 440 Toncar Estate conversion!!!

By: Jan

Jan — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 12:56:05 +0000

Volvo has made at least 2 prototypes, one in Holland and one in Sweden of a 480 convertible

By: philippeimac

philippeimac — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 22:23:33 +0000

is it possible to a bit farrer than just saying it is beautiful or it is ugly?

This conversion is very well done in terms of quality of the realisation and in terms of design.

I mean the extended fifth door is well intergrated to the body of the hatchback car. Some other cars like Renault 25 or Lancia had the same kind of conversions during the eighties.

Now it was quite expensive and made by small companies.

Now Volvo at that time was absolutely not supporting them. Most well known of this small companies attemps was the cabriolet version of the 480 coupe: well designed, well built but refused by Volvo. Too bad that good ideas are not better supported.

Eventually that kind of conversion totally collapse by the early 90ies and to me no other models are on the market today. It is true that theere are lots of breaks in a wide range of various models today anyway.

I like this kind of ideas and I like the typical look of the Volvo (which is not frozen but subtily evolves between the generations).
I do say I find this car very interesting and not ugly at all but this is not the main quality of this model overall.

By: Jan

Jan — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 13:38:05 +0000

Buy it then, it shouldn’t be very expensive…

By: jur

jur — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 07:13:13 +0000

so it seems.
i´m not sure he likes it but there are no complains jet.
to bad its for sale! know i probebbly won´t see it any more. good luck new owner.

By: Rolph

Rolph — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 23:56:37 +0000

Cool, the owner has discovered this posting, Jur! Or so it seems.

Check:

http://www.volvo-forum.nl/viewtopic.php?t=1040&start=75

all thanks to the statistics on the site for spotting the referrer

By: Jan

Jan — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 23:41:07 +0000

As far as I know, Toncar made other conversions as well. But I forgot where I read it. Probably in “Autodesign in Nederland”, by Jan Lammerse, but I’ll have to look it up.

By: Jos T

Jos T — Sun, 14 Oct 2007 23:24:58 +0000

this car is ugly! volvo makes lots of ugly cars, but this is ugly even for volvo!

By: Rolph

Rolph — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 00:26:50 +0000

Toncar? What else did they do? Why didn’t appreciate Volvo the conversion?

By: Huib

Huib — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 11:25:35 +0000

What a strange car!at first, you think it’s a normal estate, but when you look close the pictures show a funny car!!! Nice pics!!!