I called my Volvo dealer summer asking about a stick shift V70 - because the incentives late in the model year were very good - around $4,000 as I recall. He did a nationwide search and found zero (that's 0) stick shift V70s in the entire country. He said he wasn't too surprised, that he had done a similar search the previous fall and found only a handful of them in the entire country. To get a stick shift with the options you're looking for, from even nationwide inventory, is a real longshot. I think you're looking at a special order or euro delivery. I wouldn't worry too much about service on a base car with stick - they seem to be very reliable if you don't load them up with gadgets.