Volvo TR670 Series

Volvo TR670 Series

AB Volvo

MarqueAB Volvo
Production1930–1937
EngineVolvo sidevalve inline-6

About the Volvo TR670 Series

The Volvo TR670 Series is a taxicab manufactured by Volvo between 1930 and 1937. The model name stands for TRafikvagn ("taxicab"), 6 cylinders, 7 seats; the third digit indicates the version.

From the Wikipedia article Volvo TR670 Series, CC BY-SA.

The Volvo TR670 Series is one of 34 AB Volvo models in the MotorJury library, the catalogue that sets out to hold every car ever made — production, prototype and concept alike. The record places its introduction in 1930. The photography on this page is hotlinked from Wikimedia Commons under an open licence, with the photographer credited on every frame.

The era it was born into

To read the Volvo TR670 Series properly it helps to place it in its decade. The 1930s were the streamline decade, when aerodynamics entered body design, independent suspension spread, and grand-prix engineering began flowing into road cars even as the Depression thinned the industry. Any car launched into that world was shaped by it — by what materials, engineering and regulation allowed, and by what buyers of the day demanded. Its direct contemporaries in this catalogue, introduced within three years of it, include the Maserati Maserati type 2000 two-seater sport, the Cadillac Cadillac V-16, the Bentley Bentley 8 Litre — the cars a buyer of the period would actually have cross-shopped.

The numbers, read closely

On paper, the Volvo TR670 Series reads like this: the record lists its engine as Volvo sidevalve inline-6; drive goes through 3-speed Manual transmission / manual (1932–1934) / 4-speed manual (1930–1931); the layout is FR layout. Every figure above is a manufacturer specification carried by the Wikipedia infobox or the open Wikidata record for this model — nothing on this page is estimated, and where a source is silent the row simply does not appear.

Its place in the AB Volvo story

Within AB Volvo's own catalogue the Volvo TR670 Series sits alongside the Volvo 144, the Volvo 264 TE, the Volvo 440/460, the Volvo 700 Series. It was succeeded by the Volvo PV800 Series. Design is credited to Gustaf Larson. Assembly is recorded at Sweden: Lundby, Gothenburg.

How this catalogue works

This library is generated, verified and rebuilt from the open record on every deploy. The catalogue skeleton comes from Wikidata, specifications from Wikipedia's infoboxes under CC BY-SA, photography from Wikimedia Commons under each file's own licence, and the ownership data from United States federal safety records. Nothing is written by hand and nothing is invented: every fact on this page traces to a public source, and every page is rebuilt nightly as those sources improve. Errors in the source record will appear here too — and disappear the night the source is corrected.

Why concepts and prototypes are in the library

Most car databases stop at series production. This one deliberately does not, because concept cars, racing specials and cancelled prototypes are where the industry thinks out loud — the ideas tested in public years before they reach a showroom. Holding them beside the production cars they inspired makes the lineage legible: nearly every landmark road car in this library has a concept ancestor somewhere in the catalogue, and the connections run through the era links on every page.

From catalogue to ownership

What this page cannot yet tell you is what the Volvo TR670 Series costs to live with — that is a different dataset. MotorJury's ownership verdicts are computed from federal complaint and recall records plus EPA economy data, published per model year as the nightly ingest reaches each car. If this model was sold in the United States, its years will surface in the ownership database; browse it live or price any car yourself with the true-cost calculator.

Specifications

Transmission3-speed Manual transmission / manual (1932–1934) / 4-speed manual (1930–1931)
LayoutFR layout
Body style4-door saloon
Wheelbase3100 mm
AssemblySweden: Lundby, Gothenburg
DesignerGustaf Larson
Catalogue IDQ5242490

Specifications come from the Wikipedia infobox for this model (CC BY-SA) and the open Wikidata record, and are shown only where a source actually carries them — nothing here is estimated. Figures are manufacturer specifications, not measured results.

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What it costs to run

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