VOLVO URGED, 'DRIVE IT LIKE YOU HATE IT'; SCOFFERS DID AND THEY LIKED IT

April 24, 1996 05:00 AM

It started quietly in 1955, when American hardware wholesaler Leo Hirsh went to Sweden to buy nails. Impressed by Volvo taxis, he arranged for a Volvo distributorship back home in California.

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