Nick Gough mentioned “not getting bitten by the bug” (to buy a new 850 wagon). Well, hows this for a deterrent?
****** 35 and a half big ones. ****** Yesterday, at the local Volvo dealer to pick up some parts (dealer only parts!!!), I stopped in the showroom to pick up the 850 brochures and to see if there were any minor detail changes to the 850 Turbo that may not have shown up in my test drive of a “pre-production” (well, actually, a “dealer introduction”) model. No, no changes. They had this gorgeous white turbo wagon with the 16″ wheels. I want this car. I then had a chance to look at the window sticker. Ouch!! $35,500. “Oooooo, that’s a tad more than I care to spend today, ‘Panky, thanks a lot.” (The non-turbo version is a lot more reasonable coming in around $31k but still…) Oh well, I guess compared to the competition, it’s cheap. And this one did have the 16″ alloys, Nordic pack and Touring pack (it was loaded!
