Volvo V50

Car Wagon ⭐ Popular pick Discontinued

1 production run · 2 variants · 9 registers with powertrain counts

Years on record

The first and last year each official register has the Volvo V50 on record.

Netherlands: 2004–2013; Surviving fleet by first-registration year.
Finland: 2004–2026; Surviving fleet by first-registration year.

Worldwide popularity

Top 10% worldwide

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

Where it's been spotted

Australia Canada Finland Israel Luxembourg Netherlands New Zealand Norway Spain 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 · 9 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/v50/full

Registration history

Netherlands: Surviving fleet by first-registration year

Finland: Surviving fleet by first-registration year

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Netherlands
2004	1,654
2005	2,553
2006	2,622
2007	2,526
2008	2,490
2009	1,960
2010	1,905
2011	1,723
2012	1,451
2013	4

Finland
2004	807
2005	1,503
2006	1,417
2007	1,080
2008	1,428
2009	1,207
2010	1,160
2011	1,652
2012	1,117
2013	121
2014	100
2015	94
2016	121
2017	170
2018	215
2019	229
2020	121
2021	80
2022	51
2023	37
2024	18
2025	18
2026	5

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

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{
  "id": "car/volvo/v50",
  "name": "V50",
  "make": {
    "id": "volvo",
    "name": "Volvo"
  },
  "kind": "car",
  "body_type": "wagon",
  "availability": [
    "au",
    "ca",
    "ch",
    "es",
    "fi",
    "gb",
    "il",
    "lu",
    "nl",
    "no",
    "nz",
    "ua",
    "us"
  ],
  "regions": [
    "as",
    "eu",
    "na",
    "oc"
  ],
  "popularity": {
    "global_decile": 3,
    "mass_decile": 1,
    "rarity": "common"
  },
  "aliases": [],
  "former_ids": [
    "car/volvo/v-50",
    "car/volvo/v-50-d5",
    "car/volvo/v50-2-4i"
  ],
  "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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