Thanks everyone.
You'll probably have read how tortuously I have been thinking about this. I wasn't going to make any irreversible changes, but they would be changes and so the history of the car would potentially be impacted. So when SWMBO complained about the 'austere' interior (its a top of the range GLE lol), then it started to swing my view.
Where do I go from here? My initial thought was that I'd get an S90 as I genuinely love the 900 saloon shape and I also love the whiteblock engine. However the new ULEZ zone appearing in Sheffield where I work has made me ponder about getting something ULEZ compliant so that I'll be able to continue commuting by car in the future - the current ULEZ excludes private cars, but you just know that exclusion is going to be withdrawn in a year or so... This is being introduced by the same council that cut down 1000s of healthy trees in the city a few years ago (
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/...-inquiry-finds ) ...
So the 940 probably won't be replaced by another Volvo - although I'll still be in the Volvo family as the 850R is staying put!
As we don't know what we're going to do just yet (even if its going to be a petrol or diesel) we're not considering any swaps etc at the moment. We've gone from thinking of an S90 Royal all the way to a Fiat Panda and everything in between
My body is getting too old to be crawling under cars now, so this will be our last car purchase for a number of years which is why we're not rushing into anything.