Hemmings Classic Car

A New Era Dawns

“ Simple is beautiful.”

With this, Volvo’s design chief Jan Wilsgaard described his inspiration behind the look he’d established for the replacement for his popular Amazon, known in America as the 122. Like their predecessors, the 140-series cars would sell well and enjoy long production runs. Now largely overshadowed by the 240 that became the automaker’s most-produced model, the

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