Editing Volvo Amazon (section)

==Styling and design==
The Amazon sedan's [[Ponton (automobile)|ponton genre]], [[three-box styling]] was inspired by US cars of the early 1950s, strongly resembling the [[Chrysler New Yorker]] sedan and the [[Chrysler 300 letter series#1955 C-300|Chrysler 300C]] hardtop Coupe. According to designer [[Jan Wilsgaard]], the Amazon's styling was inspired by a [[Kaiser Motors|Kaiser]] he saw at the [[Gothenburg harbour]].<ref name="aftonbladet.se">{{cite web|url=http://www.aftonbladet.se/vss/kultur/story/0%2C2789%2C882036%2C00.html|quote=[Machine translation] The designer Jan Wilsgaard hand-picked directly from the Handicraft Society School (today HDK, School of Design and Crafts) and his own first major work was precisely the Amazon. He says in the aforementioned interview in the Classic Motor that one of the influences was American Kaiser, which he saw at the Gotheburg Port, quite close to where the Volvo factory was, in Lundby at Hisingen. Amazonens dependent on openness and shipping may be far-fetched, but the idea is beautiful. Just like your car, for last.|title=Så blev hon en bil|trans-title=How she became a car|language=Swedish|access-date=8 July 2007|work=Aftonbladet|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060927144006/http://www.aftonbladet.se/vss/kultur/story/0%2C2789%2C882036%2C00.html|archive-date=27 September 2006}}</ref>

The Amazon featured strong articulation front to rear, pronounced "shoulders", and slight but visible [[Car tailfin|tailfins]]. These features became inspiration for [[Peter Horbury]] when reconceiving Volvo's design direction with the [[Volvo V70|V70]] after decades of rectilinear, slab-sided, boxy designs.<ref name="sae">{{cite web|title=Global Viewpoints: Design roots|publisher=SAE.org, Automotive Engineering Online, Global View, April 2000|url=http://www.sae.org/automag/globalview_04-00/01.htm}}</ref>

The Amazon's bodywork was constructed of phosphate-treated steel (to improve paint adhesion) and with heavy use of undercoating and anti-corrosive oil treatment.<ref name="life">{{cite web|title=Volvo 122S: a rugged proved performer that even the toughest critics find difficulty in faulting|publisher=Life Magazine, 4 November 1956 (condensed from [[Car and Driver]])|url=http://www.sae.org/automag/globalview_04-00/01.htm}}</ref>

===Station wagon===
The [[station wagon]] (estate) version was introduced at the 1962 Stockholm Auto Show, and Volvo manufactured 73,000 examples between 1962 and 1969.<ref name="volvoclubamazonestate">{{cite web|title=The Amazon Estate (P220)- The First Major Step Towards the Five-Door Saloon|publisher=Volvoclub.org|url=http://www.volvoclub.org.uk/pdf/brochures/TrueFamilyCar.pdf}}</ref> The Amazon estate featured a two-piece tailgate, with the lower section folding down to provide a load surface and the upper section that hinged overhead. The vehicle's rear license plate, attached to the lower tailgate, could fold "up" such that when the tailgate was lowered and the vehicle in use, the license plate was still visible. This idea was used by the original 1959 [[Mini]]. In recent years a similar arrangement was used on the tailgate of the [[Subaru Baja]].

The Amazon [[automobile platform|platform]] was used as the basis for the [[Volvo P1800|P1800]] and 1800ES.<ref name="wsj">{{cite news |title=From the Past: Volvo 1800ES, Combination of a Wagon and Sports Car Flopped in the Market, but Became Influential |publisher=The Wall Street Journal |author=Dan Carney |date=30 June 2007 |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB118157635963731249 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080416040341/http://online.wsj.com/public/article_print/SB118157635963731249.html |archive-date=April 16, 2008 }}</ref>