First of all, Volvo was not actually a car manufacturer at first, but a subsidiary of a bearing company. When the two founders applied to GM for the independent establishment of Volvo Car Company, Volvo was born, and GM agreed to this application under the example of the two brothers. Volvo's first car was 1927. Even more amazing, the first car they produced in Sweden was a convertible, which was doomed to have no sales.
Then they learned their lesson, canceled the convertible version and introduced the hard top version, which didn't sell much. But you dare to imagine that this hardtop version actually added a bumper, which was rare in those days. It can also be seen that Volvo has attached importance to safety from the beginning, but their attention to safety goes far beyond this.
They also produced the first car based on the current three-point seat belt, which is also a patent of Volvo. Someone once said that even if Volvo doesn't produce cars, this patent alone is enough to make a lot of money. However, Volvo didn't make money from this, but fully opened the patent, which shows that Volvo really thinks about safety.
At the same time, Volvo has maintained a number of firsts, and the car with the longest mileage in history is produced by Volvo; It is also the first car to adopt various safety designs, including disc brakes on all four wheels, and three-point seat belts are standard for drivers and co-pilots. At that time, this car (144)
) was rated as the safest model in the world; The 850 produced later completely made Volvo the safest car name. At that time, the car already had ABS anti-lock system, airbag, automatic cruise and so on. This is a car made by 199 1, and now all cars don't have this configuration; He also has a car that has not had a fatal accident so far, which is the only one in the world.
Finally, even Volvo, a car crash experiment, strives for perfection. Many car companies adopt a single fixed family, while Volvo includes all ages, men, women and children, and even specially does experiments for pregnant women.
To sum up, if Volvo ranks second in safety, no one dares to rank first, just like a sentence: buy her a Volvo if you love her.