Older Volvo S 40 wanted … a few tips would be nice

Hello, I’m new here and it would be nice if experienced Volvo drivers could give me some tips. I would like to buy an older Volvo S40 for every day 40 km of work journey. Definitely no V40 or any other station wagon. I would like to buy an S 40 year 2003/2004 – so the last ones from this series. Normally would be completely long with the 1.8 year, but I read here that this one has a Renault gearbox and I don’t want that. I don’t find any useful overview page from which the fitting of the respective transmissions etc. shows. I know that car would be very old, but I had a 22 year old Japanese driver for this work journey, who would have driven for a long time if they hadn’t broken it. So … is your opinion after the S 40 of this generation suitable for my purpose? A non-hooking gearbox would also be one of the few prerequisites, as well as not too narrow seats with a bit of side support for the thighs due to belt disc problems would be nice, but utopian. The 2.0T was recommended here elsewhere, since no Renault gearbox and rather volvotypically it looks like the best of your opinion.