Volvo 140 Series

The Volvo 140 Series is one of 83 Volvo Cars 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 1966. 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 140 Series properly it helps to place it in its decade. The 1960s were the decade of the pony car, the mid-engined revolution and the birth of the modern hot hatchback's ancestors — engineering advanced faster than in any decade before it. 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 Lamborghini Lamborghini Miura, the Alfa Romeo Alfa Romeo Spider, the Toyota Toyota Corolla — the cars a buyer of the period would actually have cross-shopped.

The numbers, read closely

On paper, the Volvo 140 Series reads like this: the record lists its engine as 1.8L Volvo B18 engine / B18A/B Straight-four engine / I4 / 2.0L Volvo B18 engine#B20 / B20A/B/E/F I4; kerb weight is recorded at between 2580 lb / (142 base model) and 2898 lb (145 de Luxe); 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 Volvo Cars story

Within Volvo Cars's own catalogue the Volvo 140 Series sits alongside the Volvo 142, the Volvo 145 (1967), the Volvo 164, the Volvo 200 Series. The record names the Volvo Amazon / Volvo Duett as its predecessor and the Volvo 200 Series as its successor, fixing its place in the model line's chronology. Design is credited to Jan Wilsgaard. Assembly is recorded at Sweden: Torslanda (Torslandaverken) / Belgium: Ghent (Volvo Car Gent / VCG) / Canada: Halifax, Nova Scotia / Halifax (Volvo Halifax Assembly / VHA) / Australia: Clayton, Victoria /.

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.

From catalogue to ownership

What this page cannot yet tell you is what the Volvo 140 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.