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Assar Gabrielsson and Gustaf Larson founded Volvo in Gothenburg in 1927. The name means "I roll" in Latin. The brand built its image on safety. It introduced the three-point seat belt in 1959. Ford bought it in 1999 and Geely in 2010. It is based in Sweden.
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Volvo
1966–1974 · Inline-4
The 144 of 1966 was the first Volvo with a three-digit name: 1 for the series, 4 for the cylinders, 4 for the doors. It was also Volvo's first boxy design and Teknikens Värld's car of the year; 1,205,111 cars of the 140 series followed in eight years.
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Volvo
1968–1975 · Inline-6
Its long 3-litre engine needed a longer bonnet than the 140's. Volvo unveiled the 164 in Paris in October 1968, its first six-cylinder car since the PV800 ended in 1958. Its roots went back to a late-1950s design by Jan Wilsgaard, the P358 concept, first planned with a V8. In 1972 it offered Bosch's first volume-production electronic fuel injection, D-Jetronic.
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Volvo
1974–1993
Volvo's reputation for safety and durability was built by the 240 and 260, which drew on its VESC experimental safety vehicle program. Jan Wilsgaard designed them, and the 265 of 1976 was the first Volvo estate with a six-cylinder engine. Over 19 years, 2,862,573 were built.
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