How rare is it? 2001 V70 T5M

[93SCMax]

Yeah, VIDA is a paradox. It is the go-to but it is riddled with errors, this has been show over and over again. All the time on this forum people blindly post up VIDA information as gospel, which can lead to problems.

Confirmation that VIDA is inaccurate:

2001 V70 Sales brochure-color codes

2001 V70 Sales option order sheet-color codes

[oragex]

Not only Vida, they made quite important mistakes to the Owner book at the p/s fluid and also at the car gross weight. Must have been a fresh graduate hire

[ADent]

My 2001 V70 T5M is Polar Arctic/Taupe or Oak. 175K Got it for a good price a few months ago.

I have never seen any other around here, though V70 N/A manuals show up a couple times a year on Craigslist.

V70R with M are much more common and I saw one in a parking lot the other day and there have been two for sale recently (each over $10K, yikes) and at least 6 in the last year.

[abscate]

Stumbled onto run rate INFOS in the Sticky section

Volvo made 75-100k of these cars per year, figure 40% came to States , and if 5% were manuals, That’s 2000 cars. They do last long time due to excellent corrosion protection.

I’ll wager that I have see every available colour in NY And MA where the average car count between Volvo averages 22, vs 200 based on random stats.

You may think you’re car is rare if you don’t be live in Volvohalla, but if you seek a particular combo of could and options, look back East

[ignatz]

My 2001 V70T5m "had" cloth seats, no heated seats or headlight wipers. It was silver with a cargo rack and the 16" Metis wheels. Sunroof and the variable rear view mirror and the message panel that told the mpg. I forget what radio was in it, but would guess it had a cd player.
The cloth seats were great and probably one of the things I miss the most. Much more sporty than my current leather seats in my 2001 V70 2.4t wagon.
My current 2001 V702.4t has leather heated seats, but the base radio, standard rear view mirror and no message display. Still rocking the original transmission neutral control programing and loving it.

[Cruiserh83]

I just got one the other day! Didn’t know how rare it was til I saw this thread! Thank you 2001 v70t manual in mistral green Pearl

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[ignatz]

I looked at that one and it seemed like a good deal. Show the other side of the car and that would be one of the reasons why I passed on the wagon. Also if it would have had the larger Metis wheels found on many T5's, I might have bought it.
I had an 01 T5 wagon stick shift and loved it. Good luck with your T5.

[Cruiserh83]

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A small dent on the fender, that’s about it.

[matthew1]

OFF TOPIC a bit because it's a P80, NOT P2 like we're talking about in this thread, but interesting either way.

Thank you for taking the time to contact us at Volvo.

For (Imports from mid 1998 to mid 1999) We built 15,610 V70’s.
Of these 517 were T5, of that 101 were T5 with Manual Trans.

Color Break out of the T5 w/ manual trans:

019 Black Paint 16
189 White Paint 15
412 Blue-Green Mt 7
417 Nautic Blue Mt 19
419 Pewter Slvr Mt 7
421 Emer Green Met 11
426 Mystic Slvr Mt 14
427 Graph Grey Mt 0
440 Desert Wind Mt 4
441 Laser Blue Met 7
601 Red Paint 1
*Most T5Ms were built in 1998. I’m not certain but I’ve heard less than 25 were built in 1999 and only 1-2 built in 2000.”

-- source https://www.matthewsvolvosite.com/1998- ... -for-sale/

Eleven years ago I hung out with a guy here in Denver who had a 419 or 426 S70 T5M with Comet wheels. Nice guy, lost to the wind now.

[BlackBart]

A small dent on the fender, that’s about it.

A small shrapnel explosion from inside?