Being a Swede I'm sad to hear that. Volvo used to build very reliable but boring cars. With the 850 they managed to build a rather nice car that was reliable.... then ford bought them... and today the quality seem to have dropped quite a but... but they are still doing better then SAAB! That said volvo was out of cash and would have been out of the business without ford so it was still neccesary.

What volvo does best are seats. You sit like a king in them. My experience from toyota are mosty from corrolas and they have crappy seats. I'm hoping that the prius has a better seat but I'm not sure (the seats are manual?!?)

Anyway, thanks for the info. You are not the first to tell me they've had problems with the v70