Over the last 10-15 years the automakers "experimented" with new car Styling designs that some times where so radical that the same model of a car might look entirelly different from year to year.

Volvo along with some very few Automakes are the only companies who consider a design Model series outdated after a few years of production. BMW on the other side they always have to advertize the "New" 3-series or 5-series...pushing in this way the consumer to always have the latest "Ultimate driving machine" model.

If we look back in the early-mid 80's it is obvious that the 240series Volvos where superior styling-wise to most automakers such as BMW or Audi or VW of that period. However as the years passed Volvo decided to "kill" the 240 series as outdated putting this way more than 20 years of the "brick style" into history.

Today, where the troubled car-market automakers have run out of ideas..and money and along with a stale car market they have decided to "Bring back" cars from the past..with new styling enchancement but with the same retro fundamental design. I don't beleive that Volvo would ever have thought to bring back the good-old boxy 240 Styling. There can be only one 240.....

As far as the styling goes, I love my pre-85 240 and I still believe it looks better that some of the new car models out there. I would have loved to see what kind of car could a 240 be still today with todays automakers refinement standards.

The only reason that the 240 is NOT a classic is because there are a few 100 thousands still on the road. This could be one of most underestimated cars ever built and was NEVER included in any of the top-100(or 50) lists of the cars of the last half-century. How many 3,5 series BMWs or Audis do you still see on the road today from that-era?

Much Much fewer that 240s for sure.....