I've managed to get one of the pictures I've taken online so far:

http://gallery.arkolog.dk/Diverse/dscn1085.jpg

More will follow later - it might not be a 300, but it's still a Volvo

5lab wrote:would it not be cheaper to import something?

Well, the car itself would be cheaper, but I'd have to pay an absurd amount of tax on the car before I'd be able to drive it

5lab wrote:that is a LOT of money for a 460! blimey...

In Denmark, it's cheap, actually - most of the comparable Volvos I've found have been priced 5-10.000 Kr higher...

Cars are ridiculously expensive here

Forget that car and try to find another Volvo 340 (or 360!).

Well, that would have been a lot harder than what I did :-)

I found a perfectly kept 1994 Volvo 460 DL (1.8i) with a few nice extras and perfect looks, so I decided to buy it instead. It's a campaign model (called "spirit"), and thus ...

Well, that's it.

No 340 for me :cry:

The dealer turned out to be less than honest...

It was supposed to have been a Volvo 340 DL 1.7, but when I got there I found a B14.4E looking up at me - a bad looking one of it's kind even. When I got the car jacked up a bit all I could se was rust, rust and ...

On a side note, concerning the high taxation of cars in Denmark, it leads to some interesting "solutions" to the problem by car dealers.

First thing to go is anything that doesn't need to be fitted at the factory, i.e. any extras. The second thing removed is the radio (if it's possible, on some ...

There is black paint on the wings borders, rust problems?

It's a plastic shell, not paint. :)

Edit:
And yes, it is a lot of money, but not in comparison with danish car prices in general. We have a 280% tax on new cars (multiply the price of the car as it enters the country with 2.80 to get the ...

It's a DL, and it's presumably rust-free. Should have nothing but the most basic extras (if any), but it looks like it could indeed run forever.

You can see it here - the text is in danish, but the pictures should speak for themselves: http://www.bilbasen.dk/biler/Forhandlere/showcarbilleder.asp?id ...

I'll be picking up my first car tomorrow (or the day after that, depending on when the license plates arrive at the dealership), it's a 1989 340 DL (3 door 1.7L).

Being 25, and having worked in car rental (part time) over the last few years I've driven a lot of different cars, but the first car I ...