Quote Originally Posted by OTEP
IMHO, don't buy one brand new.

The pre-owned market is a buyer's paradise for Volvos.
second hand prices are really low so cars like the T-5 can be bought fo the price of a 2nd hand corolla. Just be careful since parts of volvo's are expensive. We used to have an S40 that had a steering leak which costs close to 100K to fix.
Volvo cars depreciation is really bad, almost as bad as nissans and mitsubishi.