Volvo PV51

The Volvo PV51 was a car that Volvo introduced in December 1936. Volvo's cars were quite expensive compared with imported competitors, and the PV51 answered a request from Volvo's dealers for a smaller and less expensive model. Its rear body resembled the Carioca, while the front was new and the interior was simplified to cut the price, and it had to make do with a live front axle. A de luxe PV52 followed in early 1937, with twin sun visors, twin windscreen wipers, a watch, a heater and armrests on all four doors, and Special versions of both appeared in March 1938 with the spare wheel moved to the boot floor. The PV51 was replaced by the mildly restyled PV53 in 1938, and the line stayed in production until the end of the Second World War.