Volvo

1970 After fourteen years of manufacturing, when Volvo history had been numbered 667,323 cars, Volvo Amazon production was phased out at the beginning of the summer. The Volvo Amazon was the best example of Volvo philosophy, consisting of production reliability, capability to be improved; Volvo ...
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1960 In January Volvo history was marked by introducing its absolutely new sports car, the P1800 to the Brussels Auto Show. Volvo published photography of the “newborn” the year before. This Volvo two-seat sports coupe had an entirely new engine, the B18B. During the first years this model was ...
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1950 In the beginning of the 1950th Volvo concentrated on raising the volume output of the PV444. In September the B-series of the Volvo PV444 was launched. It was being manufactured in a Standard and Special versions – the Special version had practically the same equipment as the PV444AS. ...
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1940 The Second World War brought hard times in Volvo history. The sales fell from 7,306 cars to 5,900. The reason for this was utilization of petrol restriction, materials and parts storage, including tires. Assar Gabrielsson wrote the following about that time: “When that war came, the ...
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The word-for-word translation of Volvo is “I roll” for Latin. In 1924 in the restaurant Sturehof in Stockholm, there was made a decision to establish Volvo by Assar Gabrielsson and Gustaf Larson on the 25th of July, in a day that in Swedish calendar named as the Jakob Day which became the day of ...
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