[mikepatrick]

Honestly, having recently bought a 2014 D2 for the wife and taking it for 1500km drive, i'm pretty impressed by this engine. Coming from an brilliant 2004 S60 D5 (163hp) that was replaced by a 2011 XC60 D5 (205 hp), which is my daily car, was expecting the V40 D2 to be sluggish, boring and uninteresting to drive. I had a lot of fun with this little car and was surprised to notice the "mental speed gap" - being accustomed to the XC's acceleration, you think you know your speed without checking the dials but it was about 20km+ on the V40. It's sad that my wife won't ever enjoy this car to it's fullest as she's a very boring, old granny type of scared driver.

As far as reliability so far, let me put it this way: the D2 i bought has nearly 60k KM on the clock and the previous (only) owner, which bought it brand new, was a mom who used it every day of the week to drive her children from/to school in horrific bumper to bumper "doubt you can switch to 2nd gear" traffic. Given this model's "out of the factory" issues, i was expecting a lot of things that needed to be changed on a close up head to toes car examination but to my surprise, the injectors were all in factory parameters, no worn out bushings or engine mounts and no leaks. The clutch had some wear (flywheel intact) but my mechanic said it's mostly due to driving conditions and not a bad D2 batch (he's had several D2's both V40 and S60 with premature clutch failures in the past). Changed the clutch anyway for my own peace of mind giving it a fresh start for the wife to wear down.