Volvo S60
I've got one that I use as a commuter and long distance car, got it for peanuts.
2003 2.4 D5 Diesel, got it on 163K miles in March. She currently sits on 167K miles having completed a big run in Northern France.
The seats are fantastic and very comfortable, dare I say more so than the A8, its mechanically quiet simple and has no DPF to worry about and with 163BHP is pretty nippy and manages 60MPG with the manual gearbox. The later 2.4 D5 has more power but its all lost because it has a DPF to worry about, the car to have is around 2004 with the black top D5 engine as it has no DPF.
If you have Bose in the A8 then get the SE variant of the S60 as you get the upgraded sound system with Dolby Surround, Sub Woofers etc. just like the D3. You can get so much distortion free bass in the S60 that the interior and external mirrors vibrate and you can feel it in your body.
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Manny
2004 A4 1.8T Sport Cabriolet, 89K Miles
Past
2004 D3 A8 3.7 Quattro, Xenon, Bose, Blinds, Solar Sunroof, TV, ACC, phone and almost every option. 168K miles rising slowly
with retrofit AMI and DVB-T in place of Analogue
2003 Volvo S60 D5 SE Manual, 197K miles.
2001 D2 A8 3.7 QS, Bi-Xenon, Bose, Blinds, Electric Everything, retrofitted RNS-D, 191K Miles
Last edited by mannyo; 2nd August 2016 at 06:26 PM.
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