Used Car of the Day: 1992 Volvo 940 GL Sedan

Tim Healey
by Tim Healey

Today we bring you a '90s Swede. Hit the jump to see this 1992 Volvo 940 GL sedan.


The seller claims to have purchased it new and says the car has been a California car all its life. There's no rust and its been garaged.

This ride has a mileage is 201K.

The A/C works (it's 134), the seats are leather, and the car is original save for the sway bars, legal window tint, undercoating, and a pin stripe.

According to our seller, the brakes, struts, radiator, water pump, and timing belt are new. The only issues appear to involve the speedo and temp gauge. The seller says the car has run Mobil 1 oil.

You can pick up this Volvo for $3,700.

[Images: Seller]

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Tim Healey
Tim Healey

Tim Healey grew up around the auto-parts business and has always had a love for cars — his parents joke his first word was “‘Vette”. Despite this, he wanted to pursue a career in sports writing but he ended up falling semi-accidentally into the automotive-journalism industry, first at Consumer Guide Automotive and later at Web2Carz.com. He also worked as an industry analyst at Mintel Group and freelanced for About.com, CarFax, Vehix.com, High Gear Media, Torque News, FutureCar.com, Cars.com, among others, and of course Vertical Scope sites such as AutoGuide.com, Off-Road.com, and HybridCars.com. He’s an urbanite and as such, doesn’t need a daily driver, but if he had one, it would be compact, sporty, and have a manual transmission.

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  • Wolfwagen Wolfwagen on Feb 29, 2024

    A little high, but if everything checks and no leaks. I would offer 3K and if need be split the difference

  • 28-Cars-Later 28-Cars-Later on Mar 11, 2024

    That's a screaming buy, even if a tad high. I'll be in my 244 more by the time its all sorted (whenever that is...) and this likely won't need any bodywork. The erratic speedo is 100% an electrical short, whatever coolant gauge issue is going on is likely the same (worst case, weird coolant troubleshooting which is no biggie because Redblock isn't going to blow a HG even if its been overheated). Timing belt is the $64,000 question but the seller seems to have a clue so risk is lessened and its cheaper to do on RWDs than the FWDs.

  • Shipwright I owned a '08 Grabber Orange, Shelby GT500 convertible as per my Avatar.
  • Wunsch Where I live, there's just one professional sports team, so pretty much everybody seems to build their identity around it. A few years back, GM offered a shade of green on the Equinox that was an almost perfect match for the team's signature colour, and I figured that dealers around here make a killing selling those to fans.But still, the dealers brought in very few and stayed focused on the greyscales. There's only a couple of those green Equinoxes around.
  • Bd2 Lexus has that crazy liquid mercury copper color which is quite unique. Everyone bashes on Lexus for making Toyota based Fwd vehicles and all but hey they have that copper.
  • Rochester I agree, people should be buying cars with color. But not purple. Never purple. Ewww.
  • Fred No idea why someone would interested in buying this at the price point. I'm pro-ev but a quick search can pull-up a lot more value at lower costs. I like the Fiat design but I couldn't stomach paying $37k for limited range and a super tight back seat.
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