Absolutely.

You don't have to hammer the turbo on every trip to the grocery store, it's just nice to have when someone is trying to spear you through the center pillar whilst they text and drive.

Bah. To the victor goes the spoils, and 2 folks beat me to the prizes already. 97 T5 was just picked up, bought over the weekend. 96 850 R, bought just last night. Plenty of Sedans locally but I have 3 kids and they'll all be 6 footers, the folding trunk seat is just about mandatory. Dealer did ment...

That's what I'm afraid of on the R wagon, very seductive inside though. Do I really have to get to '06 to get reliability out of the AWD drivetrain? Not much on the V70 FWD front here either. I'd go back to an 850/S70 T5/R Sedan, but we need at least one "hauler". Wifey keeps emailing me a...

The heater Core was the only really catastrophic failure in the 850. Few other things have gone, true, but they went in more of a "slow decomposition with plenty of warning" sort of way.

Truly amazing work they did in 96.

Good evening folks, Long time lurker. I try not to bother others with this sort of "what if" but we've recently been reduced to a One car household, and the wife is losing patience with my extended hunt for the replacement. I've been driving Volvos for the last 15 years or so, worked my wa...