Volvo 240 & 260 brochures
This page contains the brochures of the Volvo 240 and 260-series cars. Every year Volvo made a new brochure for the new modelyear Volvo 240 or 260. The modelyear starts in August and ends in July (when the summer break in Sweden started). For example: a Volvo 240 that has been produced in September 1987 has modelyear 1988 and a 240 that was build in April 1988 also has modelyear 1988.
The brochure of a Volvo 240 or 260 is a 20 or more pages promotional book about the car and a flyer is a small booklet with a maximum of 14 pages (in most cases Volvo used a 6-pages flyer). Also leaflet with just one page were used (front and back printed, so actually 2 pages).
The owners manuals (instruction books) of the Volvo 240 and 260 can also be found on this page.
I also uploaded a lot of advertisements that Volvo used for the Volvo 240 and 260-series. Most of the ads are used in the USA and Canada. And as a nice bonus: some road tests of the 240 and 260 can be downloaded on this page.
Two ads that Volvo used in magazines to point out the safety and comfort of the Volvo 200-series (click on the ad to open it in a new window/tab)
All brochures, owners manuals and other documents are in PDF-format. To open a Volvo PDF you’ll need Adobe Reader (or any other program that can open PDF-files).
Volvo 240 & 260 brochures, flyers, ads and owners manuals
Because there are a lot of modelyears I combined all the brochures, leaflets, flyers and owners manuals in one table, sorted by modelyear. In case there are other languages than English are available you can find the other language in the column that has the flag of the country where the document has been used. The instruction books for the Volvo 262, 264 and 265 can be found at the next paragraph. Just click on the flag for the brochure, flyer or owners manual in the prefered language and for the ads: just click on the number. All items will open in a new window/tab.
Model year | Brochure Volvo 240 | Brochure Volvo 260 | Flyer | Advertisements | Owners manual |
| 1975 |   | | | 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 | |
| 1976 | | | 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 | | |
| 1977 |  |  |  | 1 2 | |
| 1978 | | | | 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 | |
| 1979 | |  | | 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 | |
| 1980 | | | | 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 | |
| 1981 | | |  | 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 | |
| 1982 | | | 1 2 3 4 5 | ||
| 1983 | | 1 2 3 4 5 | |||
| 1984 | | 1 | | ||
| 1985 | | | 1 | ||
| 1986 | | 1 2 | | ||
| 1987 | | 1 | | ||
| 1988 | | | |||
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Volvo 260 owners manuals
For the brochures of the Volvo 260-series see the table above. Below you can find the owners manuals for the Volvo 262, 264 and 265.
Volvo 260-series US English owners manual 1976
Volvo 260-series US English owners manual 1977
Volvo 260-series US English owners manual 1978
Volvo 260-series US English owners manual 1979
Volvo 200-series accessoiries & options books
In the pdf’s below you can find several options and accessories for the Volvo 240 and 260. Most of these accessories are these days pretty rare very hard to get. Today the accessories of a car are mentioned in the brochures of the car itself, but in the good old days Volvo made a special catalog with accessories for each type car (later it was changed to a accessory book for all types and now it’s included in the brochure of each type car).
Volvo 140 & 240/260 accessory catalog in Swedish (1979)
Volvo 240 & 260 accessory brochure Dutch (1979)
Volvo 240 & 260 US English accessories brochure (1979)
Volvo 240 R Sport performance parts & GT accessories brochure US English (1979)
Volvo 240 & 260 series accessories & options brochure English (1981)
Volvo 240 & 260 air condition English brochure (1981)
Volvo 240 & 260 accessories brochure (1982)
Volvo 240 Group A upgrade kit installation manual Swedish (1982)
Volvo 240 Turbo Group A homologation specifications, parts & approval by FIA (1982)
Volvo R Sport parts & accessories Swedish catalog (1982)
Volvo 240 & 260 accessories USA brochure (1983)
Volvo 240 & 700-series accessories brochure (1985)
Volvo 240 accessories & options Dutch brochure (1985)
Volvo 240 accessories Dutch brochure (1986)
Various Volvo 240 & 260 documents
Below you can find several other documents of the Volvo 240 and 260-series, like news bulletins and brochures of special vehicles that are based on the Volvo 240 or 260.
Volvo 240 series news bulletin for dealers in the United States (1975)
Volvo 240 & 260 production book (1977)
Volvo 264 TE (stretched limousine) English brochure (1977)
Volvo 240-series diesel engine press release & announcement (1978)
Volvo 240 hearse brochure (1978)
Volvo 244 & 245 policecar brochure (1979)
Volvo 245 Van / commercial delivery van UK brochure (1979)
Development of the Volvo 200-series English book (1980)
Volvo 244 taxi brochure German (1980)
Volvo 240 & 260 dealer news bulletin USA (1981)
Volvo – The drivers car (1981)
Volvo 240 USA policecar flyer (1982)
Volvo 240 road tests & reviews
Below you can find some nice articles from car magazines with reviews, road tests and two comparative tests with Saab cars (the Saab 99 and 900 were real competitors for the Volvo 200-series). All articles are written in English.
Volvo 242 GT road test by Wheels magazine (1979)
Volvo 242 GT vs Saab 99 Turbo comparison by Wheels Magazine (1980)
Volvo 242 Turbo vs Saab 900 Turbo comparison by Motor Trend (1981)
Volvo 242 Turbo review by Car and Driver (1981)
Volvo 242 Turbo IPD “turbovolvo” review by Road & Track (1983)
Volvo Amazon, 140, 240 & 740 comparative test by Wheels Magazine (1985)
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Useful links:
Volvo 240 & 260 parts catalog
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