Volvo PV 36 Carioca

Volvo PV 36 at the factory museum

The Volvo PV 36 is the Swedish car manufacturer Volvo produced from 1935 to 1938 station wagons. After Volvo in 1933 began to export its vehicles to Brazil, the car was soon nicknamed the " Carioca ".

At first glance, the, developed by Ivan Örnberg, an engineer from Hupmobile car externally very similar to the Chrysler Airflow. This is because Volvo is copied in the thirties and forties, many design elements in vehicles at the North American brands and this has incorporated into its vehicles.

Inside the car, a 3.6 liter six-cylinder engine produces about 80 hp, also the car the first of Volvo is produced with a front-wheel - independent suspension. The car's wheelbase is 2.90 meters.

Since the car with a purchase price of about 8500 Swedish crowns was very expensive and not many people could afford such a car, no more than 500 copies of the vehicle produced by Volvo. The last car was sold shortly before the end of production in the fall of 1938 and used by the Swedish embassy in Tehran.