OT: Anyone drive a Volvo Cross Country?

I dont have experience with the particular wagan that you are looking for, but my family is a volvo family. my mom has a volvo, my aunt has a volvo, my cusin had a volvo, and I have a volvo now. they are all the old boxy 240 series.

bascially, volvos are non-complicate veheicles. they are pretty much trouble free. my current volvo that I used as my utility car is a 1980 model and has 230 thousand miles on it. still has the original trans and engine, and the damn thing still pass the california emission.

the typical problem with volvo is the cooling and ac. the newer model should not have any more cooling problem since volvo use bigger radiators. but ac is just not cold enough, I dont mean that ac system break down, it just not a good ac when compare to american or japanese cars.

anyway, I think you cant go wrong with a volvo. they are less expensive to fix than its euro competitor and has less electrical failures. I think you would like it.

Volvos are remarkably resilient. I had a '76 240DL for a while and that thing was a tank. It had about 250K miles on it when I got it and I put at least another 50K on it. It was still running strong when I sold it. (I saw it sitting at a repair shop shortly after I saw it but not sure what was wrong with it or if they were just pulling dents out).

They're excellent cars; 50K miles is barely broken in for a Volvo. Also don't forget their safety record... they have been going back and forth with Saab as the safest car line in the world for at least 10 years now. I can attest to the fact; I've seen Volvos in collisions with SUVs and bigger... the Volvos held their own very well.

One bizarre side note: My old Volvo had an ENORMOUS light right in the center of the instrument cluster that said "BRAKE FAILURE". I constantly feared that I would be somewhere- probably driving 80+ or on a hill- and that light would come on. Only car I've ever seen with something like that on it.