Monte Carlo-rallyt 1949 I Monte Carlo rallyt 1949 startade för första gången en Volvo, av modell PV 444. Besättningen bestod av tre personer. Hilding Ohlsson, Volvohandlare från Lycksele, Martin Carstedt Tredje personen var författaren Stig Cederholm, mannen bakom bland ann...
The man responsible for the design was 26 year old Jan Wilsgaard, who went on to become Volvo’s head of design for many years, designing the 140, 240 and 700 series, as well as parts of the 800 series. Jan Wilsgaard recently passed away at the age of 86. The new car wa...
Volvo 343 rally-version Volvo 343 Special Volvo 263 fastback prototype A two-tone Volvo 262C and a 240 Polar Italia The Volvo 242 Group A touringcar A 1979 Volvo 244 Turbo, owned by Gyllenhammar Volvo Amazon Combi Volvo 3CC concept car ...
In 1964, four Volvo PV544s entered the Safari Rally for the first time and then in 1965, brothers Joginder and Jaswant Singh won the race. Then, in the 80s, the Volvo 240 Turbo entered into the European Touring Car Championship. In 1984, the Swedish team Sportpromotion was the winner ...
The Swedish-born rally champion raced Volvos in the '50s and '60s and undoubtedly helped popularize the so-called Scandinavian flick—a multistep trick to slide a car around a corner. Because Volvo isn't the stodgy brand like once perceived, the automaker flew us to its homeland for some ...
Volvo Amazon. One thing is for sure: they are cars that aren’t sold in just one day (but much easier to sell than a PV or Duett). Younger car lovers prefer “newer” classic car like the 140- and 240-series. But there are many classic car fans that appreciate the Amazon a lot....
How Heikki Kovalainen went from open heart surgery to a rally car in just three months Koenigsegg, Rimac and Hennessey flat out on track... in each others' cars The Project MA-01 is a 507bhp Maserati Shamal with *all* the retrofuturistic cues ...
A quick look through the windscreen revealed the sort of rollcage pipework and gusseting that wouldn’t look out of place in a rally car. It even had a Takata x Speedhunters tow strap – a must-have accessory for any serious performance-based build. As its owner, Jesper Andersson, was ...
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An evolution of the 140 series, the boxy 240 built on its predecessor’s “safety car” heritage. Nevertheless, Volvo kept right on building sporty derivatives such as the 242 GT. In our 1977 review of the GT, we declared that, after years of boring Volvos, the “242 GT is a differen...