333 horsepower out of a naturally aspirated 3.2 liter 6 cylinder is still kind of nuts. Also, it's 4.7 seconds to 60. Still quick by any standard, especially for the money.

You could just import one from Germany. Plenty of good old w123´s here, and they all have a manual transmission. I don´t know US import regulations, but you should be fine because its older than 25 years. You could pick up a great w123 (280/300 etc) with an original manual for a few grand. High mileage models are sold…

The Chinese owners has treated Volvo better than Ford ever did... The Chinese business practices may be horrible, but that really hasn't shown in Volvo's case. Geely just lets Volvo be Volvo.

I wish our culture cared about visual design like the nordic countries do. Everything they make is beautiful.

Even a "stately luxobarge" can feel unbearably slow.

This could be the last car you ever buy. Even if you're in your teens.

I bet a couple of EJ25's would pull a premium before Race Wars!!!

I have also transformed the way I work on my car.

BMW Nazca M12

http://www.italdesign.it/en/projects/bm…

I signed up and unlurked just to star Guigaro!

I had to scroll all the way down to the bottom to find Giugiaro, which I think is amazing, since he designed the modern hatchback (VW Golf Mk1) as well as a lot of other legendary cars like the Alfa Giulia Sprint, DMC12, Lotus Esprit, which just scratches the surface of his body of work. Not only did he design…

Guigaro.

Wait, you think "disagrees with me" = "I hurt his feelings!"

You don't seem to know what a Volvo 240 is. That car wouldn't require $3,000 in parts if it ran half a million miles, no matter how thrashed it looks now. I've owned more than a dozen of them (a few over 275,000 miles), so I actually know this. 155,000 miles on that car is nearly new. They do not wear out.

That you listed 155k miles as a negative shows you don't really know what a Volvo 240 is. I've owned 13 of them. At that mileage tally, you're still only replacing simple wear items, and the drivetrain is running like new. That's basically new car mileage on those cars.

Really?

Maybe if I had a daughter. My son and I enjoyed rebuilding his Datsun 260Z and learning the finer points of car maintenance. I hope he keeps it as long as I have kept the '59 Volvo PV544 that I refurbished with my (late) father so many years ago. I suppose THAT is my goal.

The volvo is safer than most of those cars you posted, mainly because its slow as hell. I don't care how many airbags your car has, throwing a 16yr old in a car that takes a minute to get up to 60mph and is as heavy duty as the 240 series is safer. They are also very easy to work on but thats another discussion…

Oh yeah, I remember this one. Driven countless miles in it. When I was 12.