Volvo 960

The Volvo 960 was a luxury passenger car built by Volvo from 1990 to 1998, renamed Volvo S90 for the sedan and V90 for the station wagon during 1997. It took over when the Volvo 760 ended and was a development of it, using the front that the 760 had received in its 1988 facelift, with a new rear on the sedan designed by Hakan Malmgren. Under the bonnet was a newly developed inline six-cylinder engine from the same family as the five-cylinder engines of the 850, although the early cars could also have four-cylinder turbo or turbodiesel engines. Sedans had rear-wheel drive with independent rear suspension, and for 1995 the car gained a more luxurious look of its own and an upgraded rear axle with a transverse glass-fibre leaf spring. With the 940 it was the last rear-wheel-drive Volvo until electric models arrived.