So evidently you've never been in the back of the current XC90?

This is an amazingly uneven list. Saturn and Oldsmobile in the company of Duesenberg and DeTomaso? And as much as I like some of these brands at their zenith (Triumph, Saab, AMC, Pontiac, and Studebaker), the reality is that they went down the shitter long before their ultimate demise. Saab TrailBlazers, Pontiac…

As far as I can tell from the searches I've done so far, it does not search Craigslist. In fact, it only seems to take a small sample from eBay and Hemmings. It may be pretty, but without a good CL search engine, it is near useless.

Thanks, man—in memory of my long-since-departed 5-door Viggen. I sure do miss that car sometimes...

The 240, 740, and 940 in particular are great no-bullshit cars that, with a little care and feeding, will probably outlive us all. My personal favorite was probably my 740 Turbo wagon with a stick and a few light mods. It was reasonably fun to drive, could carry just about anything I needed it to, and was a great…

Nice! The first-gen MX-6 always struck me as a total sleeper.

Thanks, but in reality, counting isn't the problem, memory is (I guess I should have said I've owned more Volvo wagons than I can remember). Plus there have been multiple 740s and 240s. Every one of them has been an "honest" vehicle.

The 242 and 245 also belong on the list. Not the 262, however.

Agreed. I owned one and I was never afraid to take it off-road or climb inside it with muddy boots on. In its element (which was/is NOT mall parking lots), it was great.

I've owned more Volvo wagons than I can count, and I came here to post this. You would also receive credit for answering 245, 145, Amazon, Duett, 945/965/V90, 855, or V70.

Yeah, I forgot about the enormous cargo area in the first-gen, something else that was sorely lacking in the second-gen.

I've gotta say I like the first-gen Probe quite a bit better than the second-gen and I think it is still a good-looking car. The second-gen is just a little too soft, a little too design-by-committee. The first-gen, on the other hand, actually seemed to have a stylistic connection to the Probe concept cars (and if…

While I'd like this car to make the list (especially as I own a '59 with the let's-make-the-hydraulics-even-more-complex Citromatic (hydraulically assisted manual) transmission), your qualifier is pretty much why any old car will not make it on this list. Not even the 959. Simply put, just about everything that is…

I'm not sure what engine that is, but it doesn't belong to a Boxster.

This list sucks. 8 of the 10 cars are hatchbacks, or available as hatchbacks. 7 of the 10 are available with sticks. 3 of the 10 are rear-wheel-drive. 2 of them are rear-wheel-drive, stick-shift hatchbacks.

The oaks, standing nearby, just shook their heads.

As someone who has engaged in the same pastime now and then, I enjoy the articles, but I tend to wonder if the author is more of "cosmetics" kind of flipper or just plain new to wrenching on cars.

This makes me wish I still had my old Rangie Classic, so I could put "Land Wind" badges on it.

Those stupid sideways radios and HVAC controls... a friend of mine had an X-body Skylark when we were in high school and I could never understand why GM did that.

I've still got the November '82 issue of C/D around here somewhere, where they tested the '83 GTI, clocking it at 9.7 seconds from 0 to 60, which the writer took pains to point out was a full second quicker than the "hairiest" Trans Am (5.0 "HO" with a 4-speed) that you could buy from Pontiac in '82. I can only…