Volvo Amazon

The Volvo Amazon is a mid-sized family car that Volvo Cars built from 1956 to 1970 as the successor to the PV444 and PV544. It was sold in two-door and four-door sedan and five-door wagon forms with ponton styling, and the wagon arrived in 1962. It was first named Amason, after the warrior women of Greek myth, but a trademark held by the German firm Kreidler limited that spelling to Sweden, so the name became Amazon and the line was later called the 120 Series. In 1959 Volvo made front seat belts standard on every Amazon, and it later made three-point belts standard too. About 667,000 were built at the Lundby and Torslanda plants in Gothenburg, and roughly 60 percent were exported. The Amazon platform also underpinned the P1800 sports car.