Home Part 2: The Last 100 years 8: Car Manufacturers by Country 8.14 Sweden 8.14.2. Volvo History of Volvo Motor Cars / Automobiles 8.14.2. Volvo In 1927 Volvo started production of its first car, the OV4. In 1926, the company produced ten protoype models. Just under 1,000 OV4 cars were manufactured between 1927 and 1929. In 1933 Volvo produced a one off concept car called the Venus Bilo, which led to the production of the two-door coupe PV 36 Carioca model (1935-40). Volvo also produced the PV 51 (1936) and the 3.7 litre PV 52 (1937-38) models during the 1930s. In 1944 the company produced the 1,414 cc PV444 but the model did not go into production until 1947. In 1958 it was replaced by the PV544, a car which was made until 1965. Between 1947 and 1965 Volvo produced 440,000 of these two models. The Amazon model was introduced in 1956/7 as an alernative to the PV with nearly 300,000 sold in Sweden by 1970 when production ended. About 20 other models were produced by 1980, including the Duett (1953-69), the 120 (1961-72), the 140 with over 1.2 million sold (1966-74), the best selling 200 Series with over 2.8 million sold (1974-93) and the 300 Series (1976-91). Models produced in 2007 include the S40, 60, 80, V50, 70, C70 and C30.   [ Back ]