Volvo PV 36 Carioca
| Volvo PV36 Carioca | ||
|---|---|---|
Curb weight 1,660 kg (3,659.7 lb) | | |
| Chronology | ||
| Successor | Volvo PV51 | |
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The Volvo PV 36 Carioca is a luxury car manufactured by Volvo Cars between 1935 and 1938. The word Carioca describes someone from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and was also the name of a dance that was fashionable in Sweden at the time when the car was introduced.
Visually the car was styled similarly to the then strikingly modern Chrysler Airflow and Hupmobile Model J Aero-dynamic.[1] Volvo styling was heavily influenced by North American auto-design trends in the 1930s and 1940s, many of the company's senior engineers having previously worked in the US Auto-industry.[1]
The PV36 was the first Volvo to offer an
side-valve engine as the traditional Volvo cars that were still produced alongside the modern Carioca. The PV36 was an expensive car, with a price at 8,500 kronor
and Volvo didn't build more than 500 cars. The last one wasn't sold until 1938.
References
- Volvo Personvagnar-från 20-tal till 80-tal by Björn-Eric Lindh, 1984. ISBN 91-86442-06-6(in Swedish)
Notes
- ^ Motor. Vol. 152, no. 3919. 26 November 1977. pp. 34–39.
External links
- Volvo Cars Heritage.
- Volvo Museum.
- Storvolvoklubben (in Swedish)