Solid, dependable, safe. Volvos aren't exactly the kind of car you'd expect to set hearts aflutter, but that hasn't stopped postcode 2012, Strawberry Hills, Sydney, from claiming the title of Australia's Volvo capital.

Not only is Strawberry Hills home to more Volvos than any other postcode on this vast continent, according to the Bureau of Statistics' motor vehicle census, but it is also the only postcode where Volvos outnumber every other make of registered vehicle.

Where Australia was once a land of Holdens and Fords, our roads now firmly belong to Toyota. One in six of the nearly 22 million registered vehicles in the country is a Toyota, compared with one in nine for Holden and one in 11 for Ford.