While some people spend their summer vacations on a beach sipping fruity drinks, Portland Volvo Cars Internet Sales Manager, Colin Mack, recently spent time in Europe attending several Volvo events. Traveling with his dad, they first visited the municipality of Best, in the Netherlands, to an event celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Volvo 850 T-5R.
In September 1944, as herald of hope for peace and better times, Volvo presented the PV444 at a large exhibition in Stockholm. The price was a very attractive 4,800 Swedish kronor, the same as what Volvo's first car, the ÖV4, cost in 1927...