52classic wrote:...Apparently even the CEO of IKEA has one for a daily driver!
Doesn't surprise me, have you ever wondered how Ikea's mattresses and bed frames are so oddly proportioned and of a size for which it's impossible to buy fitted bedding? No? Take a tape measure to the load bay of a 145 or 245, perfect fit you see.
However, and much as I like the Volvo idea, Peter Agnefjall is, apparently, driven about in something by Elon Musk, the famous South African-born Canadian-American car manufacturing geezer. Centuries earlier, someone made electricity using connected lemons, nowadays, that latter day purveyor of invisible suits for reigning monarchs makes "connected" lemons using electricity.
Buy the earliest 245 you can find, better yet buy a 145. Later 240 series cars have incontinent gearboxes because Toyota thought that it would be amusing to supply their AW71 to Volvo with a very hard rear oil seal that would machine a groove in the nose of the propshaft. Chicago Rawhide will supply their Speedi-sleeve as a solution that will typically last a couple of years, but earlier cars used a Borg Warner gearbox and that doesn’t leak
from there, though my 244GLE did dribble fluid from the converter, the sump gasket, the base of the dipstick tube via a porous weld and not forgetting the crack where the mount was attached to the tailshaft end of the 'box. I love the things - having owned more 140 and 240 series than I can count on my fingers - and would have another now, but scene tax has taken over from common sense and decent ones are stupidly expensive unless you channel your inner Mike Brewer and get up early on Ad Mag/Loot/Gazette/E&M/Autotrader day with phone in one hand, greasy roll & bacon in the other.
They really do get under your skin though, I'd challenge even the hardest hearted of human beings to drive one for any great distance without starting a conversation with the car...
What? Just me then? Oh bugger!