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Aimee and Paul Kay are happy owners of Volvo number 15,000,000.
Their piece of Volvo history was delivered to San Diego in early May. The very first Volvo car left the factory on April 14, 1927.
It was once again an open car that was under the spotlights. That's when car number 15,000,000, an attractive convertible Volvo C70, left the factory in Uddevalla, headed to San Diego.
The 15 millionth Volvo was transported more than 8,000km from the Volvo factory in Uddevalla to San Diego on the US west coast.
Aimee and Paul Kay picked up their prized new purchase, a Celestial Blue C70, from dealer Wes Hinkle.
The couple were invited to travel to Gšteborg in Sweden and visit Volvo's Torslanda factory, with all expenses paid for.
"We first saw the C70 at the Auto Show and fell in love with it. We went back and forth and finally we said the time was right," said Paul Kay.
Volvo Cars is proud of what the brand stands for," said Gregor Hembrough, regional sales and marketing manager for Volvo Cars of North America, who was present when the car was delivered to Paul and Aimee.
In the first year, Volvo's production proceeded at a modest pace, with 297 cars being sold in 1927.
Emerging from the shadow of the global economic depression and Second World War, it took Volvo 23 years to build its first 100,000 cars. Today, that figure corresponds to about three months of production.
However, Volvo has never really been a high-volume manufacturer.
When that first car drove past the factory gates back in 1927, it proudly carried its "iron symbol" on the radiator grille. That mark was and still is a symbol of Swedish steel and quality. When car number 15,000,000 left the factory in Uddevalla, that symbol was still carried with pride on the front and it still represents quality and solidity.
