Today Volvo Cars Gent celebrates 40 years as a production plant. The plant was inaugurated on November 3rd 1965. Since then, over three million Volvo cars have been manufactured there.
Volvo cars have been driving on roads around the world for 80 years. The company’s history and its beginnings have been documented in innumerable ways over the years.
In August 1966, Volvo presented a new 4-door car called the Volvo 144. It represented the start of an entirely new car series which, until 1974, accounted for Volvo's volume models.