1994 SHO, black on black, automatic, nearly mint. Would've been a terrible first car in hindsight, though - I've become a rabid Volvo guy since then, and half the power of that SHO, combined with sturdy bodywork and ridiculous ground clearance, make for a very different sort of fun. I just bought another Volvo - this…

The rust is a scary thought, and as such, my verdict depends entirely on how severe it is. Assuming it's easily dealt with, well, it's only a coat of paint away from being a neat one-of-a-kind ride, and you'd be hard-pressed to build it for this price. Nice Price, then.

@TrampaOnline: ...as well as the Saturn Relay, Buick Terraza, and Pontiac SV6, which are jointly some of the most poorly-aimed, poorly-designed and poorly-styled vehicles of the last decade. (The Chevrolet Uplander is just as bad, and appears - even more so than its platform-mates - to suffer from Down Syndrome, but…

Oh... also, this, of course.

I hadn't seen the one with the Roadmaster, but the version with the wood-panelled second-generation Chrysler minivan has gotten quite a bit of airplay lately. The kid's voice is infuriating and the Highlander's still less stylish than a minivan built while we were electing Clinton the first time. On top of that, the…

@Orion126: Well, that and you'd have to be fully loaded to think that stealing a camper was a good idea.

The 242 was probably unreliable only because of K-Jetronic - the later electronic systems (LH 2.0/2.2 and especially 2.4) were comparatively bulletproof, though more complex - you're a Porsche guy - you know about these. The only other issues that 240s have are shared with Porsches as well - namely electrical issues,…

@stuffman: The bumper got bent? I'm surprised - those suckers are sturdy, especially if they're the earlier (pre-'85 or so) 'commandos'. The taillights are French and, being 18-plus-year-old plastic, shatter if you look at them funny.

I like answering these QOTDs with "Volvo 240!", but the editor beat me to it this time. Kudos, Matt. My '89 244 would salute you if I felt like going outside to raise a windshield wiper.

@VeeArrrSix: As long as you aren't one of those guys with the VW emblem/grille removed and the stock hood still proudly missing a rounded-off chunk on its leading edge.

@eaglescout1984: Yeah, the 245's tailgate wiring is a bit hellish; it's a small part of why I've got a 244 and a 745. Okay, not really; the 745 was just an extraordinarily good deal.

@mckennar001: As a man with two old Volvos, one of them a '92 745T, I have sympathy. Even if they hadn't known that 240 steelies fit fine on the rear, the missing A cam would have been a giveaway that it was a Volvo-specific theft. Hydras aren't all that uncommon, though, so I'm surprised they went to the trouble…

@xcalibr: Not only is my Volvo not worth stealing, nobody's going to get much of a thrill out of it compared to most cars on the road. Of course, I've accidentally left it unlocked in a driveway in Lowell, Massachusetts with the keys in the ignition and been fine. Not that I make a habit of it, of course...

@VeeArrrSix: No surprise from anyone I've seen with a football-team plate frame.

@KKnD: My Volvos agree.

@ha1156w: Yeah, there is a bypass there somewhere, but since I don't actually need to put the fuse-panel cover back on before I get a battery that puts out more than two and a half volts, I don't really care. I believe it's even marked on the plastic surround, though I've never had to use it. I'm a huge fan of the…

@FourOnTheFloor: Hey, the only 'accidents' I've had over my licensed driving career were due to screwing around in the snow (snowbank tapping with no damage), unless you count tapping a stone wall because I had no reverse lights (turned out to be a corroded fuse; hurray for Volvo/Bosch) and couldn't see it. I do my…

@hike15: I own two Volvos - an '89 and a '92. Volvo put the shift interlock in for the '90 model year, as I recall - so the older car, a 244, can be taken out of park without a key, but the newer car, a 745, cannot. The 745's fuse panel is behind a plastic cover that can't be removed or replaced with the car in park…

@Novaload: It's cranberry over cranberry, actually, and a wagon, but the clearcoat's only half-there now...

@wspeed6: If the G8 had replaced the W-body Impala, or had been sold as, say, a "Chevelle" (or some new name altogether), it would have sold brilliantly. Its failure was partly due to marketing and partly to Pontiac obviously being a failed brand even as soon as the car was launched. I parked perpendicular to a G8, an…