Volvo-raggare

[P.Lindblom]

In the smaller towns of Sweden we have a certain group of people commonly known as “Volvo-raggare”. They’re usually around 18-25 years of age, wear baggy clothes and baseball caps saying “Volvo 240 racing” or similar, depending on what they drive.

Every evening when the supermarkets have closed you can see rows of sometimes up to 20-30 cars, all Volvo 740s, just standing there in the big parking lots with their engines switched on. If it starts to rain or snow they all take turns doing one wheel “drifting” (No LSD).

As I mentioned the cars are almost solely Volvo 740s. In fact you can hardly find a 740 these days, which hasn’t had its springs sawn off (farmer lowering) and the mufflers removed (farmer tuning). Inside the cars you usually find a bunch of wunderbaums, hairy dices, a few beer cans, a “rattmuff” and a blonde 15 year old girl who’s super cool for hanging out with the older guys with driving licenses. Another thing that seems overrepresented among these cars is the confederate flag. I have no idea why, though.

I just thought I’d share this with you as I’m sure all countries have their own equivalent… maybe not Japan as they all seem to be born with a set of keys to a Silvia S15 or a Supra. I’m very curious about the UK “Volvo-raggare”. What do they look like, what sort of cars do they drive and where do you usually find them?

A few examples:

Cheers

[is300_dino]

think ours are the corsa brigade, the Bloomin idiots still want to try and race, why do they bother!!!

[aido]

We call them chavs Patrik, and to give you an idea, check out the pictures in this forum:

http://www.barryboys.co.uk/phpBB2/viewforum.php?f=12

They'll take any car and cover it in lots of plastic and nothing is safe, they'll do it to any type of car you can imagine that is within their reach money wise!

[sparkystav]

Small hatchbacks, Corsa, Saxos, 106's. Thats the norm for our young chavs.

[DJ Wozza]

and most have similar (read really rubbish copies) rear lights to the IS200

OMFG the Calibra (shed 2007) & Audi (shed 2008) defy description

[Parthiban]

Haha, that's bizarre, what a crazy choice of vehicle! I guess they're safe when they crash them though!

Yep ours are generally in much smaller cars (limited by what they can afford to buy and insure) but the corsa, saxo and 106 as mentioned are the most popular.

[glennhughes]

When i was but a boy it was Ford Escort's and Vauxhall Viva's it then became Ford's XR series of uber cool car's

[Yeldarb]

When i was but a boy it was Ford Escort's and Vauxhall Viva's it then became Ford's XR series of uber cool car's

I had an old "Y" reg Escort RS!! Not the turbo but the predesessor to the XR3I.

The Tiger stripes were soooooooooooooo coooooooooooool back then.

[swfcdan]

This:

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This:

= CHAV

Welcome to England

[Mincey]

It's all summed up rather nicely at BarryBoys.

[glennhughes]

When i was but a boy it was Ford Escort's and Vauxhall Viva's it then became Ford's XR series of uber cool car's

I had an old "Y" reg Escort RS!! Not the turbo but the predesessor to the XR3I.

The Tiger stripes were soooooooooooooo coooooooooooool back then.

I remember it well the RS1600I did you have the pearlesant alloys?

I was an XR2 boy Lowered uprated spax gas adjustables all round, roll cage, ported 4.2.1 peco big bore webber twin 40's no back seats or boot liner

ahhhh the good old days when modding was so easy!!!!

[Yeldarb]

When i was but a boy it was Ford Escort's and Vauxhall Viva's it then became Ford's XR series of uber cool car's

I had an old "Y" reg Escort RS!! Not the turbo but the predesessor to the XR3I.

The Tiger stripes were soooooooooooooo coooooooooooool back then.

I remember it well the RS1600I did you have the pearlesant alloys?

I was an XR2 boy Lowered uprated spax gas adjustables all round, roll cage, ported 4.2.1 peco big bore webber twin 40's no back seats or boot liner

ahhhh the good old days when modding was so easy!!!!

No 1.9 Pug 205 alloys, to be different!!