Volvo 740

The Volvo 740 is a rear-wheel-drive passenger car that Volvo built from 1984 to 1992 and that became the volume seller of the 700 range during the 1980s and early 1990s. It was the simpler and cheaper sister of the more luxurious Volvo 760, which had arrived in 1982. The first cars were the 740 GLE with the fuel-injected B23E engine and the 740 GL with the carbureted B23A, and a turbocharged version used the same engine as the 760 Turbo. A station wagon followed in 1985 for North America and in 1986 for the rest of the world. The car has a unibody structure, an inline engine with the gearbox directly behind it and a solid rear axle. It was developed in Sweden and the Netherlands and assembled mainly in Sweden, with some production in Belgium. The 940 took over after the 1992 model year.