940 SE

I own a 940 SE turbo sedan (2.0 Ltr turbo) from 1992 since a couple of
weeks, and it's a nice car in every way. But is there anyone who can tell me
what it means "SE". Most of the cars are "GL" or similar. What's the
difference between SE and GL???? Can anyone give me the answer please.
THANKS.
Peter.
1995 - 2003: '86 Volvo 360 GL injection
2003 - ?? : '92 Volvo 940 SE Turbo sedan

 

The letters SE were used in America for a Turbo-car; in Europe it would be:
940Turbo.
Oftewel (je bent waarschijnlijk NL): je hebt óf een uit de VS geïmporteerde
auto óf een auto die ooit door een Amerikaan in Navo- of diplomatieke dienst
is geweest in Europa.

 

Don't hold me to it but here's this:
SE - sport edition?
GLE - grand luxury edition?
TS - touring sedan
RS - rally sport
LE - limited edition
NXS - in excess?(!)
L - limited
SS - super sport...

etc, I have mixed in a lot of makes here, but just to make the point.
marketing terms?

 

Was it only in America? I have never seen a 940 SE in Canada. We have 940,
940GLE and 940 Turbo, then there is the 960 at the top of the 900 model
range. Our 700's were 740, 740GLE, 740 GLE 16 Valve, 740 Turbo, 760, 760GLE,
760 Turbo, 780.

This is at least, what I have observed in regards to Canadian Volvo's.

 

If it's like North America that indicates you have the 960 body with the
4 cylinder turbo engine. Does the car have independent rear suspension?

 

When the 900 series came out in 1991 the boffins at Volvo decided the
inline 6 wasn't ready for us. So the 960 that year got the turbo 4
cylinder and was named the 940SE. That's the only year you'll see in
US/Canada. There are a couple currently for sale in Ontario on
autotrader.ca (one is called a 940 SG).

 

I don't know if the car have independent rear suspension, I believe so, but
I'm not sure.
It was built in Sweden and originally imported to the Netherlands in 1992.
(the numberplate is also from 1992). And I don't have the history of the
car. The seats are leather. Under the hood lies the 200FT engine (2.0Ltr
Turbo) (155Bhp). The gearbox is 4+OD (M46). Never drove this before either,
always 5-gear, but it's easy to get used to this. Sometimes I still want to
go to the 5th gear and than I realise, ohhhhh yes, it's OD. Further no
problems with it. The are some things I have to replace by myself, like the
electrical antenna. It works half and soon I look for a replace one. The AC
doesn't work either anymore, but the cooling-medium R134a is since a few
years forbidden here, and to change the whole AC is very expensive. But
maybe in Belgium or France I still can get this type of gas. That's all I
can tell you about the car. I bought it with 200.000KM on the counter,
that's not too much for an 11 years old vehicule like VOLVO.

regards
Peter

 

In Europe there were SE editions for the 240 models as well from 1991 untill
1993. As far as I know SE meant: 'Special Edition'
These were the last models made of this 240, but they made SE models for the
940 as well.
The turbo version in Europe was the 960 / Turbo which has the 4 cylinder
turbo engine instead of the 6I.

vriendelijke groeten

wim meerschaut
kemelstraat W104
B-9190 Stekene
email werk:
email privé:

 

SE in my opinion means Special Edition, or Sport Edition
GL - grand lux
DL - De Lux
GLE - Grand Lux Executive
GLT - Grand Lux Turbo
GT - Grand Turismo
GLS - Grand Lux Sport

non Volvo

LE - Luxury Edition
CE - Crappy Edition
GLX - same as GLE
VE - ???
LX - Luxury
ES - Economy.... ? even tho its on higher line cars

I can't figure out the badging of some cars, I think Volvo had a good thing
going tho, the letters and all the numbers actually meant something at one
point in time. We actually had a 242 and a 244.... not just a generic 240DL
(had one of those too), then they got lazy and called every car by its
series like 740, 760 etc...

Now it works too, S - sedan V- versitile (wagon) 40,60,80 and XC (cross
country) 70,90. Makes sense.

 

Ahh... I see. Well 900 series Volvo's are rare in Ontario.... that is
probably why I have never seen a 940SE.

940 Turbo's are fairly common (for being pretty sparse in numbers), and base
940s... 960 sedans are few and far between, and only in the newer versions
(never seen an older style 960 sedan, with split headlamp/foglamps, only
760's), I have seen three V90's in my life (one was in the US, and had
aweseom rear light covers, no amber glass, but an amber bulb behind clear
glass), NO 960 wagons aside from ours.... at least we have a rather unique
car.

..... Another rare car is the 740 GLE 16 Valve.... i've seen about 3-4 others
in my travels..... and I swear one of them was our old one.

 

In UK the 940 SE is a legitimate model the SE standing for Special Equipment or
Sporting Equipment depending on which dealer sold it to you. The 960 Turbo was
the UK/Europe equivalent of the 760 Turbo and existed for the first year only.
We have a few good examples on the VOC 700/900/90 register.

Cheers, Peter.

: Rob Guenther wrote:
: >
: > Was it only in America? I have never seen a 940 SE in Canada. We have 940,
: > 940GLE and 940 Turbo, then there is the 960 at the top of the 900 model
: > range. Our 700's were 740, 740GLE, 740 GLE 16 Valve, 740 Turbo, 760, 760GLE,
: > 760 Turbo, 780.
: >
:
: When the 900 series came out in 1991 the boffins at Volvo decided the
: inline 6 wasn't ready for us. So the 960 that year got the turbo 4
: cylinder and was named the 940SE. That's the only year you'll see in
: US/Canada. There are a couple currently for sale in Ontario on
: autotrader.ca (one is called a 940 SG).
:
: --
: Mike F.
: Thornhill (near Toronto), Ont.
:
: Change cant to ca and remove parentheses to email me directly.