Our inventory of used Volvo autos:
| Volvo 40 Series |
Volvo 60 Series |
Volvo 70 Series |
Volvo 80 Series |
| Volvo 850,940,960 |
Volvo XC90 |
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| S60 |
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| C70, S70, V70, XC70 |
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| S80 |
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| 850 940, 960, 740 |
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About Volvo:
Volvo Cars, or Volvo Personvagnar, is a well-known Swedish automobile maker
founded in 1927 in the city of Gothenburg in Sweden.
Volvo was formed as a subsidiary company to the ball bearing maker SKF. It was
not until 1935 when Volvo AB was introduced on the Swedish stock exchange that
SKF sold most of the shares in the company. Volvo Cars was owned by AB Volvo
until 1999, when it was acquired by the Ford Motor Company and placed in its
Premier Automotive Group. Volvo is a premium manufacturer and produces luxury
models ranging from SUVs, wagons, and sedans to compact executive sedans and
coupes. With 2,500 dealerships worldwide in 100 markets; 60 percent of sales
come from Europe, 30 percent from North America, and the other 10 percent is
from the rest of the world.
Volvo cars have a reputation for comfort, solidity, safety and
longevity. Older models were often compared to tractors,
partially because Volvo AB was and still is a manufacturer of heavy equipment,
earlier Bolinder-Munktell, now Volvo Construction Equipment. Considered by some
to be slow and heavy, they earned the distinction "brick" as term of
endearment for the classic, block-shaped Volvo. With the more powerful turbo
charged variants known as "turbobricks". More recent models have moved away
from the boxy styles favored in the 1970s and 1980s and built a reputation for
sporting performance. But not before the phenomenal success of factory supported
Volvo 240 turbos winning both the 1985 European Touring Car Championship (ETC) &
1986 Australian Touring Car Championship (ATCC). Most recently a 850 series
wagon won top honors at the 1995 British Touring Car Championship (BTCC).
Historically brand loyalty is significantly higher among Volvo owners versus
other automobile manufacturers. Owners are often proud of
achieving prodigious mileages with one well documented 1965 Volvo P1800S
having been driven over 2.6 million miles. According to some figures the
average age of a Volvo being discarded is second only to Mercedes at 19.8 years.
Reliability is considered better than average and in the USA Volvo dealers
are listed by Forbes as one of the best among all car makers (9th) and luxury
car makers (6th).
About Volvo cars: Today, the company uses a
system of letters denoting body style followed by the series number. S stands
for saloon or sedan, C stands for coupé or convertible and V stands for
versatile or estate car. XC stands for cross country originally added to a more
rugged V70 model as the V70XC and indicates all wheel drive paired with a raised
suspension to give it a mock SUV look. Volvo would later change the name to the
XC70 in keeping with its car naming consistent with the XC90. So a V50 is an
estate ("V") that is smaller than the V70.
Originally, Volvo was planning a different naming scheme. S and C were to be the
same, but "F", standing for flexibility, was to be used on station wagons. When
Volvo introduced the first generation S40 and V40 at Frankfurt in 1994, they
were announced as the S4 and F4. However, Audi complained that it had inherent
rights to the S4 name, since it names its sporty vehicles "S", and the
yet-introduced sport version of the Audi A4 would have the S4 name. Volvo agreed
to add a second digit, so the vehicles became the S40 and F40. However, that led
to a complaint from Ferrari, who used the Ferrari F40 name on their legendary
sports car. This led to Volvo switching the "F" to "V", for versatile.
1998 Volvo V70 wagonPre-Ford
Volvo S40
Volvo V40
Volvo S/V70
Volvo C70 (First Generation 1997-2005)
S/V90
Small cars (Volvo P1 platform)
Volvo C30 (2007)
Volvo C70 (Second Generation 2005-Current)
Volvo S40
Volvo V50
Large cars (Volvo P2 platform)
Volvo S60
Volvo S80
Volvo V70
Cross Country
Volvo XC60 (2009)
Volvo XC70 (Formerly V70XC, based on V70)
Volvo XC90 |
