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Yearly, fewer new automobiles with guide transmissions can be found in the US (though the traditional five-on-the-floor nonetheless exists… for now). American Volvo consumers most popular a three-pedal setup of their vehicles greater than some later ones, though by the Nineties they too had principally fallen in love with manuals. Nonetheless, a cussed few saved demand for the once-favorite gearbox know-how alive right here, till Geely-owned Volvo discontinued the guide transmission for the US market after the 2013 mannequin 12 months. The final three-pedal Volvo offered right here was a C30, and I've discovered a type of uncommon machines in a New Orleans automobile graveyard.
The C30 was a great-looking two-door hatchback that borrowed some styling influences from the beloved 1800ES Capturing Brake. The most important downside with it in the US was that two-doors and hatchbacks typically now not attracted many potential consumers to signal on the dotted line.
The US-market 2012 C30 got here with a 2.5-liter turbocharged straight-five engine rated at 227 horsepower and 236 pound-feet, and house owners can buy a Polestar Efficiency software program improve to spice up these numbers to 250 horses and 273 pound-feet. May. It turned out to be a respectably fast machine, weighing simply 3,200 kilos.
The six-story guide was the bottom tools; If you happen to wished the five-speed computerized, the price was $1,250 extra ($1,711 in 2024 {dollars}).
This can be a base T5 mannequin, so its MSRP was $24,950. That is roughly $34,159 after inflation.
After a number of years of declining gross sales, the C30 was discontinued after the 2013 mannequin 12 months.
It appeared to be in fairly good beauty situation when it arrived right here, so we will assume it suffered some pricey mechanical harm.
There's extra to life than Volvo. So that you drive a automobile. There was an English language model of this advert, however I want the Swedish model.
The earlier advert had dared to point out a guide transmission, however on this advert the automobile has a slushbox.
Is it ugly or is it stunning?