My "experience" from owning a '96 965 and participating on this forum for several years is that the '95 was a "first year" kind of model after a major redesign with a few design related issues. Then, in '96 they got most things "standardized" and the build quality was good. From '96 to the last '98 S/V a few more design related things were fixed but the build quality got slowly worse. Remember these things are "relative" to expectations!

Even with the "problems", and I've had many of the items reported in the FAQs, this is still the best car I've ever owned in 40 years of driving. I still love it and my wife prefers driving it to her "new" 2003 BMW 530i.

Of course, the 91 to 94 960s were on the older 760 chassis/suspensions.
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'96 965, 16' wheels, rear 18mm bar & Koni + 204HP cams at 124K. Had '85 745 Turbo Diesel for 200K.

I just went through a similar situation. I purchased a used '87 745 last Christmas with 123K miles. kind of to replace my 245 with 190K miles that I was planning to give to my son. What a difference btw the 245 and 745. However, since I really wanted a 745T or 945T, I kept looking. In Dec I gave up hope of finding a low mileage turbo and started looking for a 965/V90. I'd always hessitated even looking at the white blocks. Long story short...in Jan I purchased a 96 965 with 70K miles. Bottem line is that this is the best car, new or used, I have ever had! Power is great, ride is plush w/o being sloppy and it is a beauty.

I say don't hessitate if you can find one with service records. Note there are a few on Ebay.

Good luck!