Originally Posted by FP

Well take it from a 20 year Volvo owner. It's a great car, and guess what? It's American. It's owned by Ford. I drove my '87 740 GLE for 15 years, 250K miles and when I finally got rid of it (only because I wanted a new car and kept putting it off). It still looked and drove like it had 20K miles. Never broke down on me, and never took it in for warranty work.