The “PV” in Volvo’s PV444 / PV544 model designation stands for Person Vagn, or roughly passenger car, in Swedish. It’s a common term and is part of Volvo Cars’ corporate name in fact: Volvo Personvagnar AB. This is the oldest Volvo model commonly seen in North America, and it was quite the stalwart, debuting in […]
The Volvo PV444/544 was a passenger car built by Volvo to fulfill simple driving needs of the post World War II family starting in 1947. It was powered by an early version of Volvo’s rugged B-series engine and stayed in production for a remarkable 18 years. Imagine Ford building ’41 Fords in 1966…but this is […]
The PV544 was the first modern unibody vehicle to come out of Volvo after the smoke cleared from World War II. It was a rugged and versitile car, powered by an early version of the legendary B-series inline-4 and a privateer PV544 driven by the legendary “Flying Sikh” Joginder Singh won the 1965 East African […]
The PV444/544 was a passenger car made by Volvo for the post WWII car market. The PV was the first unibody automobile from Volvo when it was first released for the 1947 model year and somehow managed to survive with little changes through the 1966 model year. Imagine cross shopping Ford’s iconic Mustang and this […]
The Volvo PV444/544 has the honor of being the first unibody automobile from Volvo when it was first released for the 1947 model year. The PV444 featured an early version of the legendary B-series inline four mated to the rear wheels and Volvo produced an impressive 440,000 of the 1940s styled hunks of metal in […]
Certain cars seem to grow in lawns like mushrooms; turn your back on them on a cool fall day and suddenly 2 more spring up. The mushroom effect seems to be a complex value/cost relationship that can boiled down to this: It is cheaper to buy another Triumph/MG/Volvo/Studebaker than to buy a few replacement parts…so […]
Five thousand dollars isn’t a lot to pay for a vintage running/driving 50s classic that isn’t a total rust bucket or a VW Beetle. You won’t getting rich collecting Volvo PV544s, but for the price this could be considered a black Friday deal. Find this 1958 Volvo PV544 for sale in Springfield, MO for $4,900 […]
The Volvo PV544 was the first unibody automobile from Volvo and featured an early version of the legendary B-series inline four mated to the rear wheels. Volvo produced an impressive 440,000 of the 1940s styled hunks of metal in 18 years of production. Find this 1961 Volvo PV544 Sport for sale in Mission Hills, CA […]
If you’re missing that certain sense of adventure when shopping for your next Daily Turismo…that slight feeling of dread and a voice in the back of your head telling you to leave, get out…something isn’t right; the transaction could go “sour” at any minute…then we have found the perfect car to check out in full […]