All those who want to read the short version can start at the next paragraph. Before my V70 I had a 850 with four-speed automatic, which was also clearly recognizable when switching through. When I then tested the V70 I immediately thought to myself: “Cool, finally five gears!”, because that was how it got me at least the feeling of the switching processes. I drove around with the car now for two years until I read yesterday rather by chance that my V70 should only have a four-speed automatic. several attempts made and all showed the same result: Either I’m stupid and can’t count (my university degree speaks 🙂 ) or my Volvo switches from standstill to about 80km/h four times, which results in a total of five gears. Could a different gear have been installed later by the previous owner? The translation of the “fifth” or highest gear corresponds in any case to that of the four-speed automatic (about 42km/h per 1000U/min) Or are there any other tricks, vo I don’t know anything, like some kind of overdrive or something that’s not counted as a gang?