Volvo 960

Car Hatchback Discontinued

1 production run · 2 variants · 8 registers with powertrain counts

Years on record

The first and last year each official register has the Volvo 960 on record.

Netherlands: 1991–1998; Surviving fleet by first-registration year.
Finland: 1990–2025; Surviving fleet by first-registration year.

Worldwide popularity

Top 30% worldwide

Measured from real registration and fleet counts, not clicks or hype.

Where it's been spotted

Australia Canada Finland Luxembourg Netherlands New Zealand Norway Switzerland Ukraine United Kingdom United States

Evidence of real vehicles in each country's official register. Grey imports count, because they're real vehicles on real roads.

Production history & variants

1 production run · 2 variants · 8 registers with powertrain counts

Powertrain counts straight from official registers, each with what that register counts.

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Building on it? The same record is one API call: /api/v1/vehicles/car/volvo/960/full

Registration history

Netherlands: Surviving fleet by first-registration year

Finland: Surviving fleet by first-registration year

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Netherlands
1991	5
1992	6
1993	1
1994	9
1995	22
1996	41
1997	12
1998	1

Finland
1990	5
1991	1
1992	1
1993	3
1994	16
1995	99
1996	62
1997	14
2005	2
2006	1
2007	3
2008	5
2009	2
2010	1
2011	2
2012	1
2013	5
2014	2
2015	2
2017	3
2018	2
2021	1
2022	1
2023	4
2024	1
2025	1

From official registers, as of 2026.10.3. Bases differ per country, so never compare across panels.

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{
  "id": "car/volvo/960",
  "name": "960",
  "make": {
    "id": "volvo",
    "name": "Volvo"
  },
  "kind": "car",
  "body_type": "hatchback",
  "availability": [
    "au",
    "ca",
    "ch",
    "fi",
    "gb",
    "lu",
    "nl",
    "no",
    "nz",
    "ua",
    "us"
  ],
  "regions": [
    "eu",
    "na",
    "oc"
  ],
  "popularity": {
    "global_decile": 5,
    "mass_decile": 3,
    "rarity": "average"
  },
  "aliases": [],
  "former_ids": [
    "car/volvo/960-wagon",
    "car/volvo/964"
  ],
  "years": null,
  "era": "discontinued",
  "enrichment": null,
  "enrichment_gated": true,
  "dataset_version": "2026.10.3",
  "upgrade_url": "https://vehiclesdb.com/pricing",
  "attribution": {
    "source": "VehiclesDB",
    "url": "https://vehiclesdb.com",
    "license": "Identity layer: CC-BY-4.0; enrichment/resolution: proprietary. Display requires visible credit — see https://vehiclesdb.com/legal/attribution",
    "dataset_version": "2026.10.3"
  }
}

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