Originally Posted By: PeterGreen
I'm looking for a new car for my wife. She is a small gal, so cars with big long expansive hoods are not her thing. She currently drives an old Saab which has become finicky. We are considering the new Volvo V60 station wagon with the base turbo 4 and the eight speed auto. It gets 37 highway miles and in the high twenties in the city. We are also considering an Acura RDX, based solely on the fact that Acuras are pretty much trouble free. Anyone have any experience with the new Volvo Station wagon, or even with their sedans and the 4 cyl turbo. Are Volvos as reliable as their reputation used to be?
My wife and I, like you, are looking for a vehicle and considering V60. She drove an '06 scion tC, put just under 200K miles on it before we sold it. She especially liked tC's size and also reliability, peppiness, ability to fit in awkward items. I thought we get something safer and more comfortable for her, hopefully with better highway gas mileage. The other candidate is Mazda3 2.4L hatchback. We test drove both of these cars multiple times as she's still not sure which one to get, but I can share our impressions if you'd like. As far as reliability of new Volvo drive-E engines it's too early to tell, but it will be the engine for fwd models of V60, S60, S80, and XC60 models so hopefully they did due quality assurance.