The "Girl Gang Garage" in Phoenix is helping to normalize women in the mechanic industry and encouraging women of all abilities to try automotive trades.
The "Girl Gang Garage" in Phoenix is helping to normalize women in the mechanic industry and encouraging women of all abilities to try automotive trades.
Volvo partners with all-female group on custom PV544 for SEMA – engine from S60 Polestar Engineered
15 July 2021 11:59 am / 0 comments
The Volvo PV544 may not be the most recognisable of Gothenburg’s models, overshadowed by its Amazon and P1800 contemporaries as well as the boxier later models. But the ’60s fastback is being given a new lease of life thanks to Girl Gang Garage, a network of women dedicated to increasing gender diversity in the automotive industry.
The group has been working on Iron Maven, a custom 1961 PV544 due to make its debut at this year’s SEMA Show on November 2. Now, the project is kicking into a higher gear through a collaboration between Volvo Car USA and Girl Gang Garage founder and leader Bogi Lateiner – part of the former’s aim to increase its number of female technicians in its retail network through accelerated training programmes for current technicians, recent graduates and military veterans.