The Swedish automaker is approaching its 100th birthday.
Volvo Cars celebrates its birth year as 1927, the year the first Volvo, the ÖV4, was produced, and, for the first years was primarily a truck and bus manufacturer before the introduction of the PV444 in 1944. The PV444 and PV544 would make Volvo known for cars, too, and the P1800 would too, especially, introduced in 1961. The Volvo 200 series, meanwhile, introduced in 1974, would make the brand an icon, especially in America, where Volvos were first sold by a dealer in California in 1955.
Today, Volvo sells 10 different models in the American market, from full-electric models like the C40 Recharge, EX30, EX90, and XC40 Recharge, to SUVs including the XC60 and XC90, sedans including the S60 and S90, and station wagons including the V60 and V90. Volvo produced over 709,000 cars last year worldwide and has also opened a sprawling new production facility in South Carolina for EVs that broke ground in 2015 and is 2.3 million square feet.
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