Volvo V70 T6 | High Mile Club

Fast Volvo estates always look like police cars - this one actually was...

By Matt Bird / Monday, 15 December 2025 / Loading comments

We all still dream of being traffic cops, don’t we? The reality probably isn’t anything like we dream it (or as Channel 5 depicts it), but a life clearing the fast lane, catching crooks and blaring the sirens still sounds pretty cool. Especially if there’s a great car to do it in as well.

While police fleets have diversified in recent years, there’s nothing quite like a big Volvo wagon for maximum law enforcer vibes. Especially a white one just like this, complete with the most powerful engine (the 300hp T6), fairly modest wheels and no tints. It’s exactly how you’d imagine a police car to look once it had been de-battenburged, because - you’ve guessed it - this was a police car. You can even see where the lights once lived in the grille.

As a result, it’s pretty high mileage even for a Volvo estate, at 254,301 miles. And a police car will have seen all sorts of use over the years. But on the other hand, they will have been maintained to a good standard as well, so they’re fit for whatever the job throws at them, and this one comes with service history from both its time with the service and its sole private keeper. The MOT advisories that have emerged haven’t been significant, and in the past couple of years it’s been doing more than 15,000 miles annually with nothing to report.

It even looks pretty smart, or at least as smart as a 15-year-old white Volvo estate can. While the interior has a couple of weird additional fixtures and fittings, the leather is intact and there aren’t any awful stains to be seen. The wheels haven’t been bashed into dozens of kerbs and your dog will have travelled in many worse boots. It’s all more than good enough, really.

Especially for four grand. A Volvo V70 T6 for £3,999 is a heck of a lot of fast estate for anyone; if another T6 can be found, they’re more than £10,000. With much lower mileage, sure, but if something like this is required as a workhorse then you don’t want the nicest one anyway. The mileage means there’s nothing else like it, really, with anything else comparable much pricier. This C-Class deserves an honourable mention, offering 3.5-litres for three grand, though it won’t be as capacious. As a tow car for next season, a cheap and cheerful family holdall or a comfy motorway mile muncher, there’s surely a lot to be said for an ex-police T6. Probably still quite good at moving people out of the middle lane, too.

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