File: Gaisbergrennen 2009 Bergfahrt 159. jpg | Classic Hill climb in the Alps Volvo 122S

Volvo introduced stop-start-technology in 2009, in its DRIVe models.

On October 28, 2009, Ford confirmed that, after considering several offers, the preferred buyer of Volvo Cars was Zhejiang Geely Holding Group, the parent of Chinese motor manufacturer Geely Automobile.

Volvo insisted it was an Italian design by Frua and only officially recognized that Pelle Petterson designed it in 2009.

On October 15, 2007, the Volvo Group broke ground on a new truck assembly plant, that was inaugurated on January 19, 2009.

On October 28, 2009, Geely was named as the preferred buyer of Volvo Cars by Ford.

2008 – 2009 Volvo C30 T5, Australia

The 2009 model year moved the Volvo badge from the hatch handle to the glass area above it, enlarged the font and increased the space between the letters.

On December 11, 2009, Volvo announced that it would close its manufacturing facility in Asheville, NC on or before March 31, 2010 ; resulting in the loss of 228 jobs, and the lack of any construction equipment facilities in the United States outside of Road Machinery.

* 2001 – 2009 Volvo S60 sedan ( P24 )

*" All Girls Have A Volvo ", self published ( 2009 )

On October 28, 2009, Geely was named as the preferred buyer of Volvo by the American automaker.

On 13 August 2009, SBS Transit announced a further order of 150 more Volvo B9TL chassis with Volvo D9B310 Euro V engines, ZF EcoLife 6-speed gearboxes and Wright Eclipse Gemini 2 bodywork as part of a fleet renewal programme costing S $ 87 million.

In 2009 the staff of Renault Trucks ( RVI ), part of the Volvo Group since 2001, relocated from the former Rootes site to a new building.

This exact same Volvo 360 GLT car was later converted to rallying specifications and participated in many Australia rally events and is still running in 2009 as a rally car.

* 2009 Volvo XC60 ( North American debut )

After a break in 2008, the tournament returned in 2009 with Volvo as the new title sponsor.

The Volvo Masters was the concluding official money event of the European Tour season until 2009, when it was replaced by the Dubai World Championship.

30 Wright bodied Volvo B9TLs have been delivered in 2009, 10 in March with the original style Gemini body and 10 in June with the Eclipse Gemini 2 body, with another 10 in December.

In 2009 Armağan was invited by Volvo, to paint the new model S60.

On 10 March 2009 the CIRA claimed responsibility for the fatal shooting of a PSNI officer in Craigavon, County Armagh — the first police fatality in Northern Ireland since 1998.

Most recently, the boys ' cross country and track & field teams both claimed MHSAA State Championships during the 2009 – 10 school year.

On June 2, 2009, Entertainment Weekly reported that Ryder had claimed that there will be a sequel to Heathers with Christian Slater coming back " as a kind of Obi-Wan character ".

The 2009 film The Men Who Stare at Goats stars Ewan McGregor as a reporter named Bob Wilton who follows a former soldier ( George Clooney ) who claimed to be a " Jedi warrior ", a nickname for psychic spies in the US military.

In 2009, temperatures in the deep tunnels were recorded as reaching as high as 32 ° C, and this is combined with poor air quality, which a 2003 study claimed was 73 times worse than at street level, with twenty minutes on the Northern Line having " the same effect as smoking a cigarette ".

In Zinder, a 2009 local newspaper report claimed there were no more than " three to five " automobile taxis operating in a diffuse city which subsequently relies upon the only partially regulated motorcycle taxi sector.

In 2009, RAWA and other women's rights groups strongly condemned a " Shia Family Code " which is claimed to legalise spousal rape within Northern Afghan Shia Muslim communities, as well as endorsing child marriage, purdah ( seclusion ) for married women, which was passed by President Hamid Karzai to garner support for his coalition government from hardline elements within the aforesaid communities, as well as the neighbouring Shia-dominated Islamic Republic of Iran.

The Bremen-based Beluga Group claimed in 2009 to be the first Western company to attempt crossing the Northern Sea Route for shipping without assistance from icebreakers, cutting 4000 nautical miles off the journey between Ulsan, Korea and Rotterdam, the Netherlands.

According to Neilsen in 2009 Victoria Bitter was claimed to be Australia's only billion dollar retail beer brand, selling the equivalent of one slab every second.

** Sahan Dosova, she claimed to be 130 before she died ( d. 2009 )

In 2009, the Sunday Times Rich List claimed he was worth over £ 130 million.

Article 96 of the PRC Law on Food Safety adopted on February 28, 2009 raises the punitive damages to ten times the purchase price additional to the compensatory damages that the victim has already claimed from the producer or seller for food with poor quality not compliant to food safety standards.

In 2009, Defence of the Realm, the authorised history of MI5 by Christopher Andrew, held that while MI5 kept a file on Wilson from 1945, when he became an MP – because communist civil servants claimed that he had similar political sympathies – there was no bugging of his home or office, and no conspiracy against him.

In 2009, the New York Times reported that, according to human rights groups, the repressions had claimed " at least 2, 000 " lives.

" On 15 February 2009 the INLA claimed responsibility for the shooting dead of Derry drug-dealer Jim McConnell.

By October 2009, the CIA claimed to have killed more than half of the 20 most wanted al-Qaeda terrorist suspects in targeted killings using drones.

On March 31, 2009 it was reported by various news outlets that a Conservative official claimed Mulroney was no longer a member of the party.

Alberta Africa, who initially acknowledged the murder, claimed in 2009 that Gilbride " is out hiding somewhere ".

On 16 May 2009, the Daily Telegraph reported that Dalyell had claimed £ 18, 000 for three bookcases just months before his retirement from the House of Commons.

Berlusconi claimed in 2009 that work would be completed by 2016.

In November 2009, the Washington Times claimed that Omar, assisted by the ISI, had moved to Karachi in October.

In an interview in Time magazine, 10 August 2009, Shatner claimed that Branson approached him asking how much he would pay for a ride on the spaceship.

On that basis KCBS has claimed to be the world's oldest broadcast station and celebrated its 100th anniversary in the summer of 2009.

As of 2009, 18 % of the city population claimed Czech ancestry.