700 series Volvos are good solid cars. They suffer from a number of little gremlins, but will generally last several hundred thousand miles before requiring major service. My daughter's '86 740 wagon has over 250k and looks like hell, but it just keeps plugging along (it was even inexplicably stolen and recovered recently). I convinced my BIL and neighbor to each purchase '90 740 turbo wagons and they both love them. They're great cars, and for 2k you can't go wrong.