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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.
Sweden: 1974–1994: Third Volvo Car plant in Sweden: Manufacturing: Worldwide Debut model: Volvo 164: Shut down (1994) Born Plant Netherlands Car (NedCar) XLB YV1: F: Born, Netherlands: 1975–2004: Purchased from DAF (1975) Manufacturing: Worldwide Debut model: Volvo 66: Sold to Mitsubishi Motors (2001) Samut Prakan Plant Thai-Swedish ...
World of Volvo is constructed with wood and glass atop a parking garage. The building, which covers 22,000 square meters, was designed by the Danish architecture firm Henning Larsen. The structural framework is composed of glulam beams and cross-laminated timber.
Volvo is about to open a new museum in Gothenburg, Sweden. The World of Volvo is situated near Volvo Group headquarters and only 14 miles from the Gothenburg airport. We got a behind-the-scenes ...
The automotive industry in Sweden is mainly associated with passenger car manufacturers Volvo Cars and Saab Automobile but Sweden is also home of two of the largest truck manufacturers in the world: AB Volvo and Scania AB. The automotive industry is heavily dependent on export as some 85 percent of the passenger cars and 95 percent of the heavy ...
After the closing of the Torslanda Airport as an actual transportation facility (1977), Volvo housed its collection of historic vehicles in the "Blue Hangar" (Den Blå Hangaren) at Torslanda Airport. The collection comprised about 5-6 vehicles, only two of them in working order. Other vehicles were stored across Sweden in various Volvo facilities.
The Volvo Group (Swedish: Volvokoncernen; legally Aktiebolaget Volvo, shortened to AB Volvo, stylized as VOLVO) is a Swedish multinational manufacturing corporation headquartered in Gothenburg. While its core activity is the production, distribution and sale of trucks, buses and construction equipment, Volvo also supplies marine and industrial ...
Collaboration between Volvo Cars and its parent company Geely: Polestar (2017–present) Geely through Volvo Cars in 2015 (1996–2017) as tuner and racing team Scania AB (1911–present) Traton of Volkswagen Group: Volvo Group (1927–present) [1] Volvo Cars (1927–present) Geely (2010–present) Acquired by Ford from Volvo Group in 1999 ...