Volvo Museum walk around, a trip to Gothenburg
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- čas přidán 30. 04. 2023
- The Volvo Museum in Gothenburg, Sweden, takes us back to the very beginning of the companies history. Lets explore this amazing walk through Volvos history with a look around the collection, after driving there in a 1988 Volvo 740.
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My 1990 Volvo 240DL wagon was made in this factory and it had a sticker on the one side window that proclaimed it was Special Delivery Volvo Tourist and Diplomat Sales vehicle. This meant that it was originally made and sold to a person that ordered and bought the car from a USA dealer and then opted to take the Volvo paid for vacation to Europe and saw the factory, picked up the car and drove it around Europe and then brought it back so it could be shipped over to the USA where the owner would pick it back up at the purchasing dealer. This made mine a bit more special then the run of the mill one that was shipped to a dealer and bought there.
Here in russia, i'd say, about 50% of the 900s have a diplomat sales tag. I guess it's because people picked them up themselves then. Well, by people i mean the ferry middleman dudes.
God that S90 was a luxurious car, absolutely gorgeous.
The 240 Turbo has got to be a pure sleeper Porsche eater.
And that beautiful big Black F16 Globetrotter with the 16 litre straight 6 scared the life out of the big Scania V8 in 1987. Fuel Consumption was disappointing, journey times were very much not though. A Torque Monster.
Lego XC90 is very cool.
Thank you so much for this trip and this tour.
Excellent
A fanastic museum this what l like about you tube especially the UK channels and the tour of various museums in the UK and now Europe and Matt your knowledge of Volvos is excellent
Loved seeing the Bertone 2dr, my boss had one and it was luxurious.
The 740 Estate was a great car and here in the US actor Paul Newman had one that was a stock looking version with a 5.0 ltr Ford V8 that would surprise even a Corvette driver as all they ever saw was tail lights.
The C30 had the cutest butt in the car industry. 😊😊
This distracted me from the King's coronation! The museum was very quiet like a place of worship or a library. Definitely a place to study Volvo's fine heritage but if I was there I would be running around like an excited 9 year old! :) Great video. I can't get enough Volvo content!
I remember bouncing around on a blanket in the boot of my mate's Mom's 140(?) estate in the mid 70s aged about 7. Safety last! Plus we had a haulage firm behind our terrace stocked with Volvo trucks. The old rounded ones (F86s?) were replaced the new boxier ones (F88s?). I blagged a few ride-alongs - sitting on the engine in the middle. No seat belts again, of course!
Volvo AND Gibson.....My two God Tier brands!💘💘
Ah, Volvo - a truly interesting car maker. Peak Volvos for me? Amazon, P1800 & P1800ES, 240 (estate naturally), 960 & V90 (series 1, not the later one - genuinely one of the best cars I’ve ever driven), 480 (the Dutch Volvo!) and finally the C30 (my Dad had one, and it was superb, if a little small of boot). I’ve owned 1 Volvo to date, but my Dad’s had various models since 1988, starting with a wonderful 240 estate, which he had for 13 years, and was just as pristine when he sold it as when he took delivery. Remarkable cars - sadly the like of which we’ll never see again.
Great vid. 17:58 - Thats a 200 series Ambulance not a 700, although they DID make 7/900 versions as well. ;)
Actually the first swedish car was built in 1897. So Volvo was by no means the first swedish car 😊 Nice to see that you enjoyed the museum 😊👍🏻 Greetings from 🇸🇪
Brilliant footage at the volvo Museum . Nice to see Roger Moore's P1800..
I'm a big fan of Volvo's since I gues 1994 when the 850 estate got the PR-buzz in motor racing, in the museum you'll also find the 240 Turbo in a factory livery from 1986, the car John Bowe used to drive at Bathurst that particular year and my personal favourites were the S40 BTCC, the S60 V8 racer driven by Scott McLaughlin, James Moffat and Robbie Dahlgren and Simon Templar's pearlescent white P1800.
Fantastic Video Matt and Barry, never realised how many cars Volvo made until you see them in the Museum, i knew of the OV4 as i remember seeing this at the Torque Volvo Guiness World record event.
I remember the ECC concept and the Electric Bus i think i saw that at my local bus depot at a bus open day or one similar.
Theres so much history I had no idea about with Volvo, and they were so far ahead with electrics back in the 90s
Thanks for showing us around!
Really enjoyed that, thanks for sharing - childhood spent in the back of Volvo 245s in the 70s and 80s, then delivering 850s in the 90s as a student holiday job so always a soft spot for Volvo. I notice no one says your lights are on anymore, happened a lot in the 80s with the daytime running lights ahead of their time 😂
44mins of pure enjoyment 🙏🏻
That's a beautiful museum! 😍👌🏼
its lovely, very relaxing and Scandinavian cool
So many memories. My Dad had a Volvo 144 manual saloon followed by a 145 auto Estate in the 70s. They were terrific cars.
What a trip, getting to take it back to Sweden and the 740's place of birth. Awesome that it made it and ran so well all things considered. Thanks for sharing.
The first 740 was in 1984, but Uddevalla was a new additional factory in 1986. Its been the birth place for the C70 cars
Very interesting place. Another one for the list of places to visit. Thanks Matt and Barry.
A note about the tractors and the trucks, Volvo bought into Bolinder Munktell, the long time tractor and engine maker and created the Volvo BM mark, sold farming equipment for decades, finnish Valmet ended up building the later models before Volvo disappeared from the markings. Volvo LM the maker or articulated dumptrucks and wheelloaders have dumped the old BM marks. Volvo bought the american truckmaker White to get into that market and I think that red white and blue is a White in Volvo markings, the headlights are very similar to the 240 headlights from 1981 and forward, allthough not exactly the same I guess.
That was brilliant Mr Richardson, thank you very much for sharing that with us, I really enjoyed it...👍🙂👍
Volvo was created by the ball bearing company SKF, still a huge company today with industrial grade bearings for things like wind turbines and so on. "I roll" is quite a befitting name, isn't it?
Yes, Sweden and it's ball bearing industry became the richest country and one of the richest companies....
Selling ball bearings to all sides in the Second World War.
Nice to see a Volvo coming back to Volvo in Gothenburg, Sweden! There were a few interesting concepts which in my view should have gone into production especially the cabriolet 480 and 440 estate car which Volvo disallowed but a Dutch company produced ANYWAY regardless! The 440 estate I think would've been good had it been allowed, to be made as it would add a touch more space / practicality to the hatchback range.
Really enjoyed the tour! 😍 thank you and keep up the good work
My 960 Saloon, which became engine donor and parts car for my 960 Estate finished its life banger racing... The guy who bought it said they were popular because Ford V6 2.8i & 3.0 engines were a straight shoe-in, the mounts being spaced exactly right, and various other V8s could also be used with very little fabrication.
Appreciate the chronological walkthrough, getting a good feel on Volvo's evolution!
And to this day the original XC90 is still one of the best looking proper [ie not the fake crossover things] SUVs ever made.
I own a late 960 2.5 manual -97 and a S80 3.2 FWD -09. Live about 70km from the museum. In Sweden there is a difference about Volvo and Saab owners that is hard to describe. But the Swedish movie "A man called Ove" say it all.
Amazon and p1800 are my favourite Volvos. Thanks for the tour.
Very interesting indeed! There is a white example of the Sport in California. David Bello has some videos of it.
The Duet may appear related to the P544, but it is entirely different, being on a full frame rather than monocoque construction.
The ambulance is 240 based, not 740. Do like the chrome grill which makes me think it may even be 260 based. In North America the 6 cylinder was only available in GLE trim as both a 264 and a 265. Lovely and rare.
Funny thing, the 7 and 9 seties estates had the largest cargo compartments, with the 1 and 2 right behind. The front wheel drive things have less cargo space. Even the new V90 and XC90 have less cargo space. They fo jot dtive as well, either. Worse, seriously heavy loads change the handling significantly because the basic is not as balanced as the rear wheel drive cars. The 1, 2, 7, and 9 cars are almost 50/50 weight distribution, and when laden properly, remain that way with only a 1 or 2% weight shift. The front whern drive things start off more like 62/38 so when adding weight, the weight shift is much greater.
Phillip looks like he was inspired by the 2nd generation Kaiser and Frazer models. Certainly the widow's peak in the windscreen is borrowed from that.
The ambulance looks like a 260, not a 700 Series. The V40 was built at Nedcar in Holland rather than Ghent in Belgium. The 940 estate is likely a last of the line celebration built in 1998. The 740 was the first car built at Uddevalla, which was a small scale plant later used to assemble the C70. Just thought I would fill you in on those details. Thanks for the video though. It more or less saves me from making the trip in the future 👍
That was ABSOLUTLY AMAZING. I wish I could come. But I am severely disabled and couldn't afford it! My body probably wouldn't 'stand' it anyway! Ian and Steph do quite a lot of films like this. I LOVE 'em all! Anyway, there's still plenty in the UK I haven't done yet. I have done the National Motor Museum, Glasgow Transport Museum, Gaydon and others. My aim now is to try and visit 'The Motorist.' You three seem to enjoy it!
Hope you can make it some day. Very brave of you having gone to Gaydon. I wouldn't want to find myself there even with functioning extremities and shit.
Brilliant. Thank you. 👍🏻🏴
That’s is wonderful- always loved older Volvo’s never owned one though.
Most enjoyable video, currently on our fifth Volvo.
Great walkabout, some very interesting vehicles. Thanks for the tour 👍
Great tour Matt. I had a dark blue '69 144 DL auto just like that one in the museum. It was my second car,first being a moggy traveller of the same year,what a difference!
My parents are on their 7th Volvo! They started with a 245DL in the mid '70s. Replaced a 245 DL in the early '80s. Replaced with a 240 DL wagon in the late 80's (all three wagons wer red!). Followed with an 850 sedan, then an S4, then an S8, and currently have an XC60. We wer living in Germany in the early 80s, so they went to Göteborg to pick up the new car and drove it back to Germany. Brought me a model 245 wagon model (which I still have somewhere ). I almost feel guilty about not haveing a Volvo myself!
Great series
Been a great trip & very inspiring
Really enjoyed all of that. Very jealous
Matt, thanks for going all the way to Gothenburg to take us to Volvo Mecca. I thought this would satisfy my need to visit, but nothing replaces the experience in person, so it will not stop me from my own visit one day. Everything was fascinating to see...the truncated wagon I am curious about. Is this a styling erercise, or a proposal for a new model category? The rear looks a bit like a Honda Civic of that period. And the 480ED does lend itself to a convertible certainly! But I guess it doesn't make any difference to me only because the US never got the 480ES, so it is all moot. Thank goodness that at least one of the Saint Volvo cars used in the series returned to the manufacturer, and probably the best one as it was one that was Roger Moore's own car. I believe that example is the one that was owned by a Saint and car fanatic Bill Krzastek who bought the reminants in England, had it lovingly restored, and brought the car to his home in the US. It was featured on "Jay Leno's Garage" in 2014. Thankfully, he understands the concept that we are all just caretakers of what we own, and obviously sold the car to Volvo. It is home where it belongs. Well done!!!!!
Yes, that was Bill's car and the only Volvo that I've ever seen Jay drive.
The 480 was Volvos first fwd, it didn't please the rwd Volvo customers and never sold as much, the 440 and 460 based on the same chassie sold better as the 850 entered the market but quality must have been a problem because it is easier to spot an 340, 360 on the roads these days despite them being older. The trunkated 700 series was a concept before the final 740 estate.
@@Bratfalken Volvo 480 was famous for having terrible quality, especially electrics when it launched. By the time of the 440, it was quite a lot better. The Volvo 850 was way later than both of those cars, so couldnt have influenced the acceptance of them, they were almost out of production when the 850 arrived in larger numbers.
@@GoldenCroc yes, you're right but the 850 launched in 1991-1997 as the 240 disappeared in 1993, and the 440 from 1988-1996, so some overlap was there.
@@Bratfalken Some overlap indeed, but as far as I can recall very few 440s and 460s where sold in those last years, at least you very rarely saw one. The facelift especially seemed exceedingly rare.
The general feeling is that it was very forgotten after the 90s started, only bought by Volvo loyalist Retirees buying their "last car". I am talking about the market in Sweden of course, but cant imagine it was that different elsewhere.
I think the smaller Volvos never recovered fully from their "dutch crud" reputation until the S40/V40.
That Yellow Diesel Engine Was The Back Bone On Every Truck And Bus In All Its Variations
Just heaven to this Volvo aficionado! I need to go. Just a brilliant video Matt. So glad you made it. Which would you have taken home?
There it is! I was worried this footage had gotten lost. A nice crown on a great road trip video, well done! The 343 was literally the DAF 77: Volvo found the designs when they bought the Dutch factory, adapted them to the 70s and Bob's your uncle. That 850 BTCC/DTM is my favourite, I'm always eyeballing T5's.
PS: you put the anti-blinding stickers on with the pointy bit pointing towards the middle of the headlight where the bulb is, and the round bit angled up at 45 degrees from the pointy bit (flatter if headlight is narrow), towards the side of the road where oncoming traffic is travelling. Not that those old halogens needed these stickers... ;)
Yes, the assymetrics of a headlamp is mirrored and upside down when the light passes the lense.
Nice video! If you're ever in Gothenburg again I would recommend the cold war / fighter jet museum "Aeroseum" just outside Gothenburg in an actual cold war bunker. Easily the best museum in Gothenburg in my opinion
One of Volvos most successful race cars is that 242 turbo you showed, they won the 1985 European Touring Car Championship
FYI a new Volvo museum is being built near the center of Göteborg next to Liseberg. Much bigger and fancier.
A most enjoyable & interesting video really really good well done ✔️✔️
Interesting to see the early Volvo's The P544 looks like a scaled down 1940 Ford .
The Volvo Sport (P1900) was an reaction to the Chevrolet Corvette, it also has a fiberglass body, and the engine was a souped up B4 called the B14, 70hp instead of the last B4 engines barely making 50hp of it's 1.4 liter. That engine and the later B16 that came with the Amazon has only 3 crankshaft bearings. The B18 launched in late 1961 and every later four cylinder engine has 5 crankshaft bearings, making the B18 much more reliable.
I knew an early 144 owner in the early nineties. Volvo kept in regular contact with him and often used the car for publicity shoots. In return, they would carry out restoration work on it for the owner.
Brilliant walk around, Matt!
Really interesting.
Could you do the same with the likes of Gaydon and other relevant museums as a mini-series, perhaps? Take Barry with you, too!
Heico is a German tuning company, based in Weiterstadt (south of Frankfurt/Main).
I own a 1969 volvo 144 totally original baught it as a running project still a little bit more work to do before it is finished its a lovley original car
One thing I wish to see a comeback are small diameter alloys. And Volvo made these beautifully from the 200-900-S+V90 era. I’d like to see these make a comeback as I don’t care for how much quicker a larger diameter alloy makes my car. I don’t want potholes to shatter the wheel (and my spine) any more.
I'm 43 years old and i actually remember seeing volvo 144's around they were disappearing fast though probably due to rust.
Mack Trucks is a subsidiary of Volvo Group.
Interestingly all the very early cars (1920's) were LHD where Sweden drove on the left or did they actually start on the right, switch to the left and then revert back to the right.
21:02 side note that the Mitsubishi Galant share the same platform as the S40 (or tother way round never can remember).
Curious to see so many early vehicles in left hand drive, when Sweden was a right had drive nation until 1967...
The cars were always LHD despite the driving on the left. One bearing argument for the switch in 1967 was that overtaking would become much safer and also visibility in left turning curves and corners would make traffic safer.
'Flying Brick' 240s were quite successful in Australian touring car racing for a few years in the 1980s when rule changes made the Holden and Ford V8s uncompetitive. The Volvos were sparring with Mazda RX7s, Nissan Skylines and BMW 635s
Really good video I would like to go there one day! Be interesting to have a look around the XC90, I have a 2011 D5 with Polestar remap.
The 240 didn't outlive 2 of its successors, it outlived the 700, but obviously not the 900.
And the 850 BTCC car engine is not turbo. It's a 2 litre n/a with some sort of a trick head arrangement, with something like 270 hp.
Lovely to see the older vehicles we didn't get in the UK, like the Duett and the PVs etc. One of my favourite "oldtimers" is the Carioca. At least, I think that was the name of it.
The PV444, 544 and the Duett had almost the same fronts but the Duett had a frame while the 444 and 544 was a modern car. A chassie from a 544 weighed in at 230kg, before you added every part. The Duett was the most common platform to build the youth EPA-tractors and later A-tractors from. The EPA that originated as a filler for the lack of farming equipment, it had to be shortened to a certain wheelbase and the rear wheels where allowed to do one revolution as the engine did ten. This meant adding another gearbox after the first and lock it in first gear. No suspension in the rear and the 15 year old drivers wheren't allowedto drive above 30km/h. Later on in the 80ths the lack the regulation was altered and you could not register any more EPA-tractors, the new regulation for A-tractors stipulated that you could keep the suspension and wheelbase, but the vehicle should be restricted to a max speed of 30km/h. Quiet recently the option of electronic restriction has been allowed as rwd cars that can have two gearboxes is scarce these days. The odd part is that youth these days almost removes the suspension of their A-tractors, skimping along with building up backpains when they get older. A, well, you only live once. The comfort and security of an A-tractor is so much better than the EU-moped cars that the 30 instead of 45km/h restriction makes many build A-tractors from almost anything, seen Porsches been converted, but I think you can re-register it as a car once the owner reaches 18 and can get a normal drivers license for a car? One rule that is for all the EPA and the A-tractors is ONE passenger max and no driving on highspeed roads.
@Jan Stromback Really interesting to learn all that. Thank you very much.
Still think the Saint P1800 was the best looking Volvo, ES looked great as well with the glass tailgate.
Oh my, 39:08 470hp F16, the *almost* most powerful and pretty redefining truck in Europe when it came out, only get tied by their closest rival Scania with their 470hp V8 the same year, and to this day they still fight for the prestige of most powerful production truck in the world with Scania coming out with 770hp and 3700 Nm V8 beating Volvo's 750hp and 3550 Nm 16 liter engine
And next to it the red Volvo that you unfortunately missed was the successor, FH (12) they still make them after 30 years and 3 generations being their most successful model
The white concept car at czcams.com/video/Qr-Mjp5av6Q/video.html at the end of the video you might have missed that that was a gas turbine from 1992 ! A hybrid power system featuring a series-connected gas turbine and electric motor. car also was the inspiration for the design of the Volvo S80 introduced in 1998.
Yep, one of the most intersting cars there for sure, too bad they went past it so fast.
Get that front number plate lined up !
Hehe, you were only 40 mins drive from the SAAB museum in Trollhättan.
Great museum, I've been there in 2015.
The 480 was never a DAF, its design requirements came straight out of Volvo Gothenburg, it was their first front wheel drive car. In fact there's a lot British to it, much of the design work has been done by MGA Developments in Coventry, by Steve Harper and Peter Horbury (now head of design at Volvo) and the rear suspension has been engineered by Lotus. Platform and drive train are French (Renault 9). No, the real DAF is the 343, which was originally conceived as DAF prototype and subsequently was to be sold as DAF 77, until Volvo took over and boy they had to solve quality issues. Leaks, bad plastic and stubborn DAF management insisting on the Variomatic. Once they've sorted the issues and put Volvo 240 running gear in it was quite a good car. You should meet John de Vries who designed the 343 (outside, inside and facelift) and 480 (outside). Don't wait too long as he's already 78.
(oh, and the V40 in the museum was the last ever Volvo to leave the Nedcar factory in Born, not Gent where they still build Volvo today)
P180 one of the best designs and I read that one of them held the world record for mileage on the original engine
Did i miss something or did you really not film the 1968 Frua designed P1800 ES Raketen (Rocket) Concept ? Probably the most beautiful Volvo concept of all ...
Yippee!! Odin the Volvo made it!!
Now, after that amazing adventure, how on earth can you even consider selling that 740?! 😉
Nice!I like Volvos very much thanx for video!
Nor is Volvo Cars now in the hands of the Chinese Geely Holding Group?
31:23 The funny thing is, that car, the Volvo Philip was built at the same time as another concept car and that was called Elisabeth. I wonder what two people they where namned after.
The 1800es looks like a Scimitar from the back.
That Volvo 343 Rallycross car was driven by Pernilla Walfridsson, the spouse is the more known Petter Solberg, and the son is the rally driver Oliver Solberg.
Wasn't her father P I one of the rallycrossers who drove one of these?
@@Bratfalken Yes, he was.
How did you find Gothenburg as a city? I love it. The people are friendly and the public transport is a dream compared to the UK. I wanted to visit the Volvo museum but had to abandon the trip due to heavy snow. One day soon though.
Worlds only old school Thomas Edward showbiz channel been first comment 😂 fantastic video love good museum walk around
Another Interesting Fact Was The First Car Move Backwards As The Diff Was In Upside Down
Only thing bad about this video is that it ended... Would have liked to see even more tractors and excavators and stuff (if they got it?). Top marks.
Great video Matt, did you see the Volvo Penta section while you were there ?
We did, but were breaking for lunch as we got to it so saw in in 2 parts
Ambulance was a 2.40,245😊
Was surprised not to see the Australian v8 supercar volvo s60 with the race cars as I shore that volvo kept one
G.B. Did Not Get The 240 Turbo Due To The Right Hand Drive Steering Column Shaft On The Same Side As The Turbocharger
Interesting that even the older cars are left hand drive, as Sweden used to drive on the left.
Yes, many cars where imported from the US and Germany before our own production started, and I think that is a reason, there where polls on us switching to right side traffic that voted against it, but finally the goverment decided a switch was neccesary and we did it in 1967, just in time for major roads being buildt, these days it would be almost impossible or at least very expensive to switch sides. I remember the sideswitch crossing on the border between swedish Haparanda and finnish Tornio in the late 60ths, made more like an 8 with a crossing in the middle. Unfortunatly my uncle perished in a car accident in Finland in the early 60ths as the VW he drove met another swede in a corner and that other drove on the wrong left side. I was just a toddler back then and my mother must have had hell, me looking out the door mailhatch for the uncle as he would call on me when visiting... and now he never did anymore.. 😔
Volvo 480 last one is a 2 litre !
Was there a lifted XC70 All Terrain around?
I dont remember, there was so much
18:25 Scottish Police livery!
Where is the T-Gul?
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Strange that all the early Volvos were left hand drive, after all Sweden drove on the left until 1967 so I would have expected the cars to be right hand drive
My point later in the comments.
It looks like an historical cultural whitewash by the Swedes and Volvo.-
Next we'll be hearing about Sweden's greatest Second World War battle.
Factoid: The statues are of company founders Lars Vol and Sven Vo.
Nice try, but not especially fun!
Assar Gabrielsson and Gustaf Larsson, the former from SKF the bearing maker, to name the company Volvo (I roll in latin) must have been an idea based on the excellent bearings SKF made.
Nice content but seems to only play in 360p resolution?
We're just so early that CZcams hasn't processed the high resolutions of the upload yet. Come back in an hour or two and you'll be able to watch it in high Res. It's a CZcams thing 🤷🏻
Matt could postspone the launch of tge video a couple of hours, I stopped watching my first attempt, now it is in...
@@squeakers27 Thanks - just that I've not experienced this before. It's working in HD now.
Available in up to 4K
@@Bratfalken No 4K devices in this household I'm afraid. I suspect 4K would also bring my internet service to its knees - the joy of living in rural UK! 🤣
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I was of the understanding that Volvo is now a Chinese own company!! 🤔
Volvo approved, click.
PG´s custom made cars are quite famous. In his time he was (and still is) somewhat of a celebrity in Sweden as the leader of possibly the most important industrial company in Sweden. His opinions in national economic matters had weight behind them.
Edit: Looks like Stig Johansson never got his 945...☹
Yeah, he was one of the most famous persons in Sweden circa 1980 for sure. If anyone knows comics, when the famous comedy comic "Gaston" was translated into swedish, the businessman that always tried to buy the company Gaston worked at was renamed into "gyllenhammar", presumably after the Volvo Chairman.