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I tend to think the later the year the better. As long as you don't want a coupe, that is. Volvo was always continually working to improve the car, even in it's last year. I guess K-jet is doggedly simple, although a bit hard to work on if it doesn't work well, but the other newer fuel injection systems are all pretty similar in terms of complexity. The late LH 2.4 (3.1 on some manuals) does use a CPS, but other than the bad batch of original ones, the replacements all seem to work as well as the hall sensors in the earlier cars. The '93 R134a A/C system has adequate capacity to work with R134s, since it was designed to do so, and will work better than an earlier system retrofitted with R134a. The ABS isn't a super great ABS system, being a fairly early 3 channel system, but it's not particularly problem prone. Just get a Bentley and go through the diagnostic procedure if the ABS light ever comes on, odds are it will be something cheap like a fuse or a wheel sensor. And the ABS is a nice feature, although most people still like to claim they are better than the ABS is in modulating the brakes (although they can't modulate 3 channels, now can they?). Later cars (starting somewhere in the late 80's, I forget) got a bit more rust-proof.
And if nothing else, a '93 has fewer years on it.
And PS: They become much more fun with a turbo added into them!
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'63 PV544 rat rod, '93 Classic #1141 245 +t
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