Volvo 850 T5 by HEICO Motorsport
Weird Car of the Day #455: Volvo 850 T5 by HEICO Motorsport – Megabyte Box
I was speaking with friends this week and, over the course of the conversation, I realized 2026 will mark 20 years of having a YouTube account.
Look, being an incessantly car-obsessed kid, teenager, and young adult was rough in the pre-YouTube days. Ever hear of Liveleak? Napster? Limewire? When videos were 480p at best, and forums such as Swedespeed and Turbobricks had small file upload limits, finding, sharing, linking to, downloading and/or consuming car content was as tedious and time-consuming as it sounds.
Want to feel like you just bought a Volvo 850 in 1994? Well, you’re in luck…
(Videos were searched for while I also pored over Volvo specs, most preciously R-Sport information, thankyouverymuch ‘Dave’s Volvo Site’.)
When YouTube arrived, it’s tough to overstate how the video sharing landscape changed. Gone was using clunky video conversion tools to reduce the size of clips to upload, or resorting to using torrents for everything, but we lost a crucial thing in the process.
Only the best videos made the cut, and were re-uploaded to YouTube.
Much of why I become a Volvo enthusiast, and Volvo owner, were these pre-viral videos scattered around the car enthusiast internet.
Gratuitous classic Volvo 242 Turbo-at-Nürburgring action, a car not really related to today’s story. The team, however, is • HEICO SPORTIV
Some of the best videos were from the German Volvo tuner, HEICO SPORTIV. More on them in a minute.
In this part of the timeline, I was driving a Volvo and working after school at a small Volvo dealership, working in, clean-up, detailing—then, eventually, making the same money but also helping with the website and assisting the sales staff.
