Talk:Volvo Amazon

Automatic transmissions?
Has anybody ever seen an Amazon with an automatic transmission? The article says they were built but I've never seen one, even on Ebay Motors. --Ragemanchoo (talk) 03:36, 21 June 2008 (UTC)

Most definitely, yes. These were manufactured and they exist. 842U (talk) 16:08, 21 June 2008 (UTC)

External links modified
Hello fellow Wikipedians,

I have just added archive links to 1 one external link on Volvo Amazon. Please take a moment to review my edit. If necessary, add after the link to keep me from modifying it. Alternatively, you can add to keep me off the page altogether. I made the following changes:
 * Added archive https://web.archive.org/20080416040341/http://online.wsj.com:80/public/article_print/SB118157635963731249.html to http://online.wsj.com/public/article_print/SB118157635963731249.html

When you have finished reviewing my changes, please set the checked parameter below to true to let others know.

Cheers. —cyberbot II  Talk to my owner :Online 14:16, 17 October 2015 (UTC)

False information/propaganda regarding the Amazon's safety in the article
This article contains false information:

In 1959 Volvo became the world's first manufacturer to provide front seat belts as standard equipment

That's not true. Saab introduced two-point seat belts as standard equipment for the GT750 in 1958. You can say that in a way the sentence is partly true, because Saab introduced seat belts as standard equipment only for the GT750, while on the 93, 95 and 96 it was optional until 1962. But if it applies to Volvo being the first manufacturer to equip all their models with seat belts as standard for the home market, it belongs in the article about Volvo as a brand, and not in the article about the Volvo Amazon, which was NOT the first car to have seat belts as standard equipment.

by providing them on all Amazon models,[4] including the export models[4] — and later becoming the first car featuring three-point seat belts as standard equipment.

Only for the front seats, and only for the Nordic market, so it's only partly true. Amazons sold in most markets didn't have three-point belts before 1963. And back seat passengers had no seat belts at all until much later. Also, as the rest of the sentence is just propaganda, how are we to believe that Amazons on all markets were equipped with front seat two-point belts in 1959 already? I consider that dubious too. Te og kaker (talk) 00:54, 11 December 2015 (UTC)

Model Names
Someone is getting confused about "internal model designations" and "model names." 842U (talk) 11:42, 18 October 2016 (UTC)

Series numbers
how can the Amazon have 'started' the tri-digit model sequence if the car that preceded it was called the PV444? Because that also includes two letters? Or is that an internal company designation as mentioned in another comment? Because as written it makes it sound like Volvo went from using names for their car models to using numbers starting with the Amazon, but if the car before it was sold as the PV444, it is more like they made an attempt to start using more motive names with the Amazon, but ended up being forced to revert back to an alphanumeric model name when it turned out the name they wanted was already taken.

64.222.90.118 (talk) 12:19, 8 June 2021 (UTC)