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1963–1967 [2] First Volvo Car plant outside Sweden [3] Assembly [2] Canada Third non-domestic automobile plant in North America Debut model: Volvo Canadian [4] Canadian assembly shifted to Halifax Plant (1967) [2] Ghent Plant Volvo Car Gent (VCG) YV1: 2: Ghent, Belgium: 1965–present: Second Volvo Car plant outside Sweden: Assembly (1965 ...
[2] Volvo’s President Gunnar Engellau, Doctor of Engineering Gustav Larson (one of Volvo’s two founders, the other co-founder, Assar Gabrielsson, having died two years before), and Swedish king Gustaf VI Adolf were on hand for the inauguration. The first car manufactured was an Amazon, while the PV544 was never built in Torslanda.
To mark the occasion 940s built at the facility were affixed with a special roundel affixed to the rear quarter window. While the plant was very successful, [11] on September 9, 1998 Volvo decided to close the Halifax plant and end its 225 jobs, citing globalization and NAFTA as two of the reasons. The last Volvo was built in Canada on 18 ...
The Volvo T5 petrol engine was used in the Ford Focus ST and RS performance models, and Volvo's satellite navigation system was used on certain Aston Martin Vanquish, DB9 and V8 Vantage models. [22] [23] [24] In November 1999, Volvo Group purchased a 5% stake in Mitsubishi Motors, as part of a partnership deal for the truck and bus business. [25]
In the early 1970s, Volvo acquired the passenger car division of the Dutch company DAF, and marketed their small cars as Volvos before releasing the Dutch-built Volvo 340, which went on to be a big seller in the UK market in the 1980s. In 1986 Volvo sold 113,267 cars in the US marking a record year for the company.
Volvo Car Gent (until 2007 known as Volvo Cars Europe Industry N.V.) is an automobile manufacturer located in the port district of Ghent/Gent in western Belgium. By about 2013 the Ghent plant had become the Volvo plant manufacturing most cars. [1] [2] The company is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Swedish automaker Volvo Personvagnar AB (Volvo ...
A 2.3-million-square-foot (210,000 m 2) plant built over 60,000 vehicles per year for both American and export markets. Capacity can go up to 100,000 vehicles per year if demand calls for it. The facility is Volvo's seventh, joining two European, three Chinese, and one Malaysian location. As of 2022, the plant employs nearly 1,500 people.
Volvo's first six-cylinder engine was introduced in 1929. ... This engine was designed by Volvo in Sweden but is built in Wales, at Ford's Bridgend Engine Plant