My dad owns an 850; he got it with about 100K and put another 100K on it. He drives approximately 3-4 hours a day in it, much of it on the freeway (but much of the freeway being in potential bumper-to-bumper traffic).

He's interested in replacing the 850 with another Volvo; his original candidates were 940, 960, 850, or V70. Seems like the 960s had some fairly catastrophic reliability issues, so they're out of the picture. I'm not asking for opinions on the 940 here -- wrong forum -- but anyone have opinions regarding maintenance and reliability on the V70 v. the 850? These are really the only two issues he's concerned about -- He doesn't drive for sport, and doesn't really care about amenities. He also has been doing pretty much all maintenance repair on the 850 by himself.

I'd consider posting this in the BUYERS forum, except that A) it says 'new Volvos' and B) Nobody posts responses there.

-roy