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There are some similarities, but also quite a few differences. Wheels, grille, headlamps, windshield wipers, vent windows, front edge of front fender, front door window, appears to have a more rounded rear roof line, and fender parking lights to name a few.

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The first pic is of a 1933 Ford Fordor Sedan (the slightly concave grille denotes it as a '33), but the second picture is NOT a Ford at all  (note the independent front suspension, and the parallel leaf springs in the rear, neither of which any Ford had, until 1949,  and Ford, while having "Artillery-style" spoked wheels 1936-39, their wheels were nothing at all like these.

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GAZ was given help to produce vehicles from Ford so that is the reason why it looks similar. They also produced the GAZ AA truck that is similar to the Ford AA truck.
The Volvo PV444 (and later 544) may look like a Ford but has no relation to it. It was designed in the 40s so that's why it looks the way it does.
What about the Duett, what does this look like?

More Volvo PV:)

 

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On 2018-08-18 at 12:22 AM, Daddyfink said:

Sure, why not! They have been doing it with Volvos for some time now! 

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Well the Volvo PV 444 (1944-57 first car delivered February 1947) and PV 544 (1958-65) may look a lot like a 1946-48 Ford but it's a lot smaller, it's based on 40's American car designs but was an unibody with individual front suspension and 4 cylinder engines.
The P 445 and P 210 Duett (1953-69) Wagons has a steel frame under the body tho', except for the P 445 and P 210 Volvo sold bare chassis with complete front clip and dash and some body manufacturers made other bodys on that chassis, some convertibles as well as pickups were made.
After that came the Volvo 121, 122S and 123GT (1956-70) and P 221 Wagon (1962-69) also a unibody, in Sweden and some other countrys called Amazon, it was a late 40's-early 50's design and looks similar to the 49-51 Ford and Mercury with a 1955 Chrysler inspired grille, but it's also a lot smaller than the cars wich inspired the design.
Volvo skipped the whole 50's "wing" era and kept the previous models under the 50's and most of the 60's, and the successor was the boxy 140 series (1966-74) wich first came as a 1967 model.

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