[Sirius Lee]

the durability of Swedish engineering.

Volvos and Saabs are great cars. I see a lot of twenty year old specimens with a lot of mileage on them that are stilling being ridden hard daily. Cars I mean.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

I owned a ‘65 Volvo 122 sedan. Bought used with over 150,000 on the clock, I put another 100,000 and it kept turning in 25 miles per gallon and consumed no oil between changes.
Years later, I ran into the previous owner's son who confessed the speedo had broken at some point and there may have been another 100,000 miles from trips into rural Mexico and Central America.

[rochester_veteran]

When I was stationed in Germany, I bought a Volvo 144S from my commander. He bought it at the factory in Malmo in 1968. He had it shipped back to the States and then back to Germany when he got stationed there. I shipped it back to the States when I ETS’d. I drove it cross country to Nevada and then to Colorado when I moved there. It was a good car!

[martin_fierro]

I see a lot of twenty year old models with a lot of mileage on them that are stilling being ridden hard daily.

But I don’t think we’re talking about the same thing.