Classic: Volvo PV444

Posted on 01-09-2014 at 9:06 am by JordyS – 10 Comments”

Volvo was expecting his PV444 8.000 time to sell. But there were up to 200,000. What made this Swede from 1944 so special?

Volvo presented the PV444 in a period in which a lot of people who have other things on their minds. The first plans for the smaller car were in the forties, at the time of the Second world War. The manufacturer let on 1 september 1944 (today exactly 70 years ago) in the Royal Tennis Hall in Stockholm a prototype of his new model and sold the same day from 2,300.

That buyers have proved, incidentally, a PV444 to have purchased on the basis of a prototype never in production. It took even up to and including February 3, 1947 for the first PV444 from the factory rolled. Volvo working a few more years to the design and waited the right moment for the launch of the car.

That gave the Swedish designers the space to all sorts of new techniques to develop and apply on the PV444. For example, the PV444, a specially for this car-made four-cylinder kopklepmotor and was the first Volvo with a monocoque. Volvo was hoping there are 8,000 to sell. You could gently be called, but that was certainly not for a mer kdat never-before-2000 cars of the same type had been sold.

The counter at the end of production in 1958 to 200,000 PV444’s was due in part to the U.s. success of the Volvo. The PV444 was the first car of the brand in the United States in the sale went and it was a year later, the second most popular importauto of California.

Gallery: Volvo PV444

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