The Volvo car company is a Swedish car company that can be dated back to 1920. I remember back in the 70′s Volvo was considered it a reliable luxury car that you had to take to the local Volvo dealer if anything went wrong.
Over the years Volvo has been seen on the road. I have noticed it but not paid much attention to them. Today, I want to take a look at the Volvo V70. The V70 is in a long line of safe and practical midsize wagons from the Swedish company
The Volvo V70 is one of the few station wagons that are still on the road. The model V70 is no more than a refreshed version of the 850 wagon, which debuted in 1993 as the first front-wheel-drive Volvo to be offered stateside.
Base models of the Volvo V70 are powered by a 2.4 liter engine. The 2.4T models gets 197 horsepower with a turbocharger. The T5 model is more powerful producing 247 horsepower.
US News and World Reports likes the advanced safety systems, simple standard features, and the large cargo space. However, they are disappointed with the underpowered engine and bad fuel economy.
Motor Trend show the V70 FWD model with a gas mileage of 20 to 28 miles per gallon of gas.
According to Automotive.com there has been recalls of one sort or the other for the last 1998. These recalls range from cooling system and brakes.
You can get a new Volvo V70 out the door for as little as $32,000. A five year old 2005 will be $12,000 to $15,000.
Bottom-line: The overall sense I get from reading a lot of reviews and forum is that the Volvo V70 has reliability issues. There has been a couple of places like US News and World Reports would quote another source, but I could not find any hard evidence from that other source. In light of these rumbling and the number of recalls for the V70, I would pass unless you just have to have a Volvo.
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