The Volvo B58 is a Single-decker bus / Single-decker coach / Single-decker articulated bus / Double-decker bus from Volvo, built from 1966 to 1998, in the decade that gave the world the pony car and the mid-engined supercar. Under the bonnet: 9.6-litre horizontally mid-mounted I-6.
How it came about
The Volvo B58 is a retired mid-engined bus chassis manufactured by Volvo in Sweden from 1966 until early 1982. It was succeeded by the B10M.
The hardware
Power comes from 9.6-litre horizontally mid-mounted I-6; other versions carried different engines, listed in the specification table below. These are manufacturer figures carried by Wikipedia and Wikidata, not road-test measurements.
Family and rivals
Its family tree is legible: it took over from the Volvo B755; its successor was the Volvo B10M; assembly was at Sweden. Its contemporaries in the catalogue — the Dodge Charger, the Toyota Corolla, the Alfa Romeo Spider — show what else the money bought that year. Its Volvo stablemates include the Volvo 144 and the Volvo 264 TE.
What it costs now
There is no federal ownership record for the Volvo B58 — it predates the complaint database or was never sold in the United States — so MotorJury publishes no running-cost figure for it. For a car of this age the price is set by the collector market and the condition of the individual example, not by a formula.