Volvo F86 F88 Were they that good?

you must have had a different geartronic to the one on swifts then , our FL10 was bloody awful, kept going into neutral , came away from billows in kettering after yet another gearbox ‘fix’ and it went into neutral at the roundabout in isham , not bad eh , you know how far that is , what 2 miles. it had a habit of not liking reversing either soon as it saw a bump in the road it stopped. problem was all the valves were underneath so caught all the crap off the road. but it was one of the first one’s .
tony