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We have a 1999 V70 GLT (light pressure turbo). Both my wife and I love the car. Fantastic handling, fast, very, very safe, and about the best seats I'v ever sat on. We recently made a 14 hour trip to Denver. My wife ALWAYS has problems sitting in car seats for anything more than about 2 hours. Well, we were about an hour from Denver and she turns and says "it feels just as great in this seat as it did when we started." Believe me, that is an endorsement.
As you'll find, there have been problems with a number of items in these cars, especially in 97 and 98. They seemed to iron out most of the problems in the later part of 1999 (ours is a later production). We bought ours with 40,000 miles, so had 10,000 mile of factory bumper to bumper. I used that time to find every problem mentioned on the brickboard investigated and checked by me and/or my dealer. They fixed about 5 or 6 items. The fixes are better in that they have been modified to fix the original problem (usually). We have had about 8,000 trouble free miles since (now 52,000 on car).
I do not expect too many other things to occur. Of course it will always be more expensive than a Toyota to maintain, but much more fun to drive with a much better feel to the driving experience.
Would highly recommend a course like we took, and stay away from 97s & 98s, and all 4wd's before 2001.
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