[quote="foggyjames"]While it's never going to be an MGB, I think the 300s are quirky enough and were common enough in their day to achieve the same sort of status as something like a Morris Minor, eventually...an everyday classic, if you like.

Ultimately 'proper' classic cars will always be 60s drop-tops, in my eyes.

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James

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MGB=rubbish if it had that sherpa engine with twin Su's

Baby Buick, perhaps, but if I remember correctly you aren't a fan of that 50's pile of junk

its a difficult one I'm not sure the whole range will be considered classic, perhaps the millionaires the ltd's and maybe even the glt's

models like ford's old E and RS series ,vauxhalls gte , golf GTi's and yes my Bx 16 valve do tend to stand out from the base models to some extent and for that reason are more desirable than say a base model.

I hope the 300 is considered a classic one day it has meant so many different things to so many people whether a daily driver , rally car , drifter or even a custom

the way they are beginning to go price wise is a good sign but unfortunately the biggest benefit of owning a classic stopped with cars made before 1973

free road tax

I think volvo made a big mistake by not making (or marketing) the R sport models like golf and peugeot do with their GTI's even the GLT you could say on the engine side is lacking the credentials as being sports driven.

As I said somewhere else I reckon the 480 will be the next classic car, never sold them here in australia for whatever messed up reason they have.

When it was first released, the 360 GLT was quite competitive. Towards the end, it had only got slower, and the competition had got a fair bit quicker - almost all the competitors had a 6 cylinder and/or turbo option. They desperately needed to sell a 360 turbo, or at least a 2.3.

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James

Or something with more cam's than steering wheels

Does make you wonder why, when the 300 was selling so well for so long, they didn't put out a hot version, but I guess at the time the car was getting slated, and it was sensible families who were buying them, not the hot hatch generation.

I think they'd have put out a hot version of the 360, since it was the top model, so no Renault stuff. The B234 was still a year away when they killed off the 360. Knowing Volvo and their conservative way of doing things, it'd have been a B200ET or B230ET...or perhaps even just a B230E?

I'm sure you're right Chris re: their perceived image of the brand in this country...although the logic wass wrong, I think, as the 850 proved. Perhaps you need a new model though...the 2.3 16v Merc 190E hardly turned the image of the model around, even though it was a storming car.

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James