This is where it all began, production-wise, for Volvo (the prototype was shown in 1926). Soon came the hardtop version, the PV 4. Aren't the origin vehicles interesting for each company? We think so!
Monday, November 23, 2015
1927 Volvo ÖV 4
This is where it all began, production-wise, for Volvo (the prototype was shown in 1926). Soon came the hardtop version, the PV 4. Aren't the origin vehicles interesting for each company? We think so!
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Well, I guessed wrong. Nice find, K2, I have never seen one, and would not even have been able to say that I knew Volvo was making cars in 1926.
ReplyDeleteI find it interesting how cars had become very similar in the 1920s. This Volvo looks like it could have come from almost any manufacturer of that period. Compared to the wide variations in the Early Era (1900s), one thinks this would be a case of "survival of the fittest" sort of evolution.
But then by the 1950s and 1960s, evolution had diversified again, and cars had much more regional flavour (e.g. American cars had evolved into open road cruisers, the Europeans were responding to cramped cities and limited resources).
I find that today, we are back to a relatively homogeneous world-wide fleet (cookie-cutter SUVs/CUVs are everywhere, even in places where they make no sense, and most manufacturers have competitive car models that are marketed world-wide.
Agreed, B. Car design is a fascinating study of culture and psychology within certain periods of history, with at least a major majority of it following some other companies' lead. It begs the question, "Is it over now...have we seen it all?"
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