COMPACT VOLVOS

VOLVO 66GL (1975-80)

Of all the compact Volvos produced over the years, the 66 is the quirkiest. Launched in 1975, this rebadged version of the DAF 66 came about via Volvo’s takeover of the ailing Dutch marque a year earlier. The Volvo 66 remained in production until 1980 and was offered in two-door saloon and three-door estate guises, combining 1.3-litre Renault power with DAF’s Variomatic belt-driven automatic transmission. Just over 100,000 were sold in total, relatively few of them in the UK.

That makes the 66 one of the rarest Volvos of