Neil, you have put it mildly. the car is the biggest (no pun intended, I have always driven smaller cars) piece of crap - reliability-wise that I have ever owned. They call it 'durability'; my argument is any car will last forever if you keep replacing parts. Door locks, engine mounts, transmission lock microswitches, A/C evaporators, broken stuts, door panels, 3 years of idiotic blinkers - I guess it was cheaper for Volvo to replace the sockets than to re-design. Nowm we do love them for comfort and performance, so we keep them. Or...we do not want to take a beating and sell one for 60% less than we had paid three years before. There is such a glut of S70 on the used car market, one can get it for really quite little. It's really a shame for these cars could be real winners.