1998 V70 T5 with a stick shift if you can find one that's:
A: Not totally trashed.
B: At all given they only sold like 200 of them.
And it'd be 2 years older than your subaru and with a more fragile drivetrain.
Maybe less soul-less, but probably not an "upgrade." in any particularly meaningful way for a boring DD.
Drove a 2007 (last year) M66 V70T5 that was dirt cheap at auction. Should have bought it, didn't realize they sold all of like 3 of them
. No sunroof or power seats either. But cozy leather seats, quiet and terrifyingly faster than any FWD car should be without a lot of BS to break.
Pity they don't sell V70 with the Yamaha V8 instead of all the volvoid garbage/shyte.
Japanese, sounds pretty, no timing belts, no stupid crankcase vent bull****, not much plastic crap in place of properly spec'd metal parts etc. Just tight in the engine bay, crank seal leaks and swells the crank pulley rubber causing to spark on some, fix the accessories before it rips the front timing cover (VERY AUDIBLE WARNING with plenty of time though).
I do like that the P2 cars don't have SAS & EGR unlike the late P80s though. Tho stupid VVT solenoids and gears that go bad if the PO didn't change the oil en lieu of that/designed to accomplish the same emissions goals, but less busy engine bay with fewer sharp/rusty things to cut your hands on the bright side!
I wouldn't touch most P2s with a 39& 1/2-foot pole locally in our market. They're dirt dirt cheap (even some real decently maintained V70Rs with a huge stack of receipts are dirt dirt cheap here), too many of them, super roached down, interior falls apart on the warm weather/UVed out cars, don't hold up well with short trips/running rich with a bunch of condensation filled oil.
Apparently GTJordan sees ones that people actually take to the dealer and care about in canada, not cars hacked on by illiterate monkies in the average american market where people keep cars for 6 years and throw them away...they probably maintain their cars, keep them fixed up to avoid getting stranded in a life threating situation 100 miles from a single person with it being -60 out and all of like 3 people that live in canada in a 1000x3000mile country and plan to keep them as long as they reasonably can up there I'd guess.
I'd look for an 05-07 with no sunroof, no options from the original owner and babied of the P2 V70s honestly.
Buy a cushy 4-runner or FJ cruiser/real car and treat yourself instead of eurotrash bull****?
Or electric car if you drive less than 100 miles a day and rent/uber/borrow for the rest (no maintenance).
There are much worse cars, but there are much better ones too and most of the P2s around here are borderline used up
Cali probably even worse for roached down and UVed out interiors that crumble and engines/transmissions leaking from every imaginable seal ridden hard in 100 degree weather on sludge/baked fluids and put away wet.
